ASA explained

ASA as an abbreviation or initialism may refer to:

Biology and medicine

• Accessible surface area of a biomolecule, accessible to a solvent
• Acetylsalicylic acid, aspirin
• Advanced surface ablation, refractive eye surgery
• Anterior spinal artery, the blood vessel which supplies the anterior portion of the spinal cord
• Antisperm antibodies, antibodies against sperm antigens
• Argininosuccinic aciduria, a disorder of the urea cycle
• ASA physical status classification system, rating of patients undergoing anesthesia

Education and research

• African Studies Association of the United Kingdom
• African Studies Association
• Alandica Shipping Academy, Åland Islands, Finland
• Albany Students' Association, at Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand
• Alexander-Smith Academy, in Houston, Texas
• Alpha Sigma Alpha, U.S. national sorority
• American Society for Aesthetics, philosophical organization
• American Student Assistance, national non-profit organization
• American Studies Association
• Arizona School for the Arts
• Armenian Sisters Academy
• Association of Social Anthropologists
• Astronomical Society of Australia
• Austrian Studies Association

Organizations

• Acoustical Society of America, international scientific society
• Advertising Standards Authority (disambiguation), advertising regulators in several countries
• American Scientific Affiliation, an organization of Christians in science
• American Society of Agronomy
• American Society of Anesthesiologists
• American Society of Appraisers
• American Sociological Association
• American Staffing Association
• American Standards Association, a former name of the American National Standards Institute
• American Statistical Association
• American Synesthesia Association
• Americans for Safe Access, marijuana law reform group
• Association for Social Advancement, microfinance institution, Bangladesh
• Association for the Study of Abortion
• Association of Scouts of Azerbaijan
• Association of Southeast Asia
• Australian Submarine Agency
• Australian Society of Authors
• Australian Space Agency
• Austrian Service Abroad
• Autism Society of America
• United States Army Security Agency

Sports

• Agremiação Sportiva Arapiraquense, Brazilian soccer club
• Alliance Sport Alsace, French basketball club
• Amateur Softball Association, former name of the governing body now known as USA Softball
• Amateur Swimming Association, former name of Swim England
• American Sailing Association
• American Samoa, IOC country code
• American Speed Association, motorsports sanctioning body
• American Sportscasters Association
• Arizona Soccer Association
• Athletics South Africa, the national governing body for the sport of athletics in South Africa
• Atlético Sport Aviação, Angolan multisports club
• United States Adult Soccer Association

Transportation

• ASA (automobile), Italian marque of automobiles (Autocostruzioni Società per Azioni)
• ASA Aluminium Body, Argentinian manufacturer of replicas of sports cars
• Aeropuertos y Servicios Auxiliares, Mexican airport operator
• African Safari Airways, airline company based in East Africa
• Air services agreement, bilateral agreement to allow international commercial air transport services between signatories
• Atlantic Southeast Airlines, in Atlanta area, Georgia
• Airline Superintendents Association, of Trinidad & Tobago
• Airservices Australia, air traffic management and related services provider for Australia
• The International Civil Aviation Organization's code for Alaska Airlines

Other

• ASA ("American Standards Association") a measure of film speed in photography, later replaced by the ISO standard
• Acrylonitrile styrene acrylate, a thermoplastic used for 3D printing and in the auto industry
• Adaptive simulated annealing, optimization algorithm
• Cisco ASA (Adaptive Security Appliances)
• Allied States of America, a fictional American nation in the television show Jericho
• Allmennaksjeselskap, the designation for a Norwegian public limited company
• Anti-Soviet agitation, a criminal offense in the Soviet Union
• ASA carriage control characters, a system used for controlling mainframe line printers
• Assistant state's attorney, a title for attorneys working in the state's attorney's office in the United States
• As-salamu alaykum, a greeting in Arabic that means "peace be upon you"
• Auditory scene analysis, a proposed model for the basis of auditory perception

See also

• Åsa (disambiguation)