Ant (disambiguation) explained

An ant is a eusocial insect that belongs to the same order as wasps and bees.

Ant, Ants, or ANT may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional entities

• Ant (Image Comics), a character from Image Comics
• Ant (DC Comics), a character from DC Comics
• Ant, a character from the show WordWorld

Film and television

• A.N.T. Farm, a TV series
• Afghanistan National Television
• It Happened at Lakewood Manor or Ants, a 1977 TV film starring Suzanne Somers and Robert Foxworth

Music

• The Ants, an English punk rock band formed in spring 1977, later better known as Adam and the Ants
• "A.N.T.S." a song by Adam and the Ants, a parody of YMCA by the Village People
• "ANTS", a song by Xiu Xiu from OH NO

Written media

• Ant (magazine) (Turkish 'Oath'), a left-wing weekly publication in Turkey
• The Ants, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reference book about ants
• Les Fourmis or The Ants, a series of French novels by Bernard Werber

Other media

• American Negro Theater, formed in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City
• Microsoft Ants, a free multiplayer PC game
• The Ants (play), a 2023 play by Ramiz Monsef

Organisations and enterprises

• Advanced Network Technology, a division of the US National Security Agency; see NSA ANT catalog
• Aids to Navigation Team, of the United States Coast Guard
• Alliance for National Transformation, a political party in Uganda
• Ant Financial, a Chinese payment-processing company
• Armée Nationale Tchadienne, the native name of the Chad National Army
• ANT cooperative involved in the ANT case, Soviet Union

People

• Ant (name), English language nickname abbreviated from the given name Anthony/Antony, as well as a surname, given name and stage name
• Ant (comedian), stage name of Anthony Steven Kalloniatis
• Adam Ant, stage name of Stuart Goddard, an English singer and frontman of the rock band Adam and the Ants

Places

• Ant, Lucknow, a village in Lucknow district, Uttar Pradesh, India
• Ant, a village in Avram Iancu, Bihor County, Romania
• Ant Atoll, part of the Senyavin island group in the Federated States of Micronesia
• Antigua and Barbuda (IOC Country code)
• County Antrim, former county in Northern Ireland, Chapman code
• Netherlands Antilles (ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code)
• River Ant, a river in Norfolk, England

Science, technology, and mathematics

Computing

• ANT (network), a wireless personal area network protocol
• Apache Ant, a Java-based software build system
• Turmite or ant, a type of Turing machine
• Web crawler or ant

Mathematics

• Algebraic number theory, a branch of pure mathematics
• Algorithmic Number Theory Symposium, a symposium on Algorithmic Number Theory

Other sciences

• Actor–network theory, an approach to social theory and research
• Adenine nucleotide translocator
• Anacamptis (abbreviation Ant), a genus of orchids
• Antenna noise temperature
• Antlia, constellation abbreviation as standardized by the International Astronomical Union
• Automatic negative thoughts, in psychology

Other uses

• Ant (chair), a modern chair designed by Arne Jacobsen
• ANT, a designation for aircraft designed by Andrei Nikolayevich Tupolev
• An-Naml ("The Ant" or "The Ants"), the twenty-seventh sura of the Qur'an
• HMS Ant, several ships of the Royal Navy

See also

• Ain't
• ANT1, a Greek broadcaster
• Anth (disambiguation)
• Antony (disambiguation)
• Ants (given name), an Estonian given name
• Antz, an animated film
• Aunt
• Langton's ant, a two-dimensional Turing machine with a very simple set of rules