Home › Multilingual Archive Index › A (disambiguation)

A (disambiguation)

A is the first letter of the Latin alphabet.

A may also refer to:

Science

• annum
• A battery (vacuum tubes)
• Vitamin A, also called retinol, an essential human nutrient
• Haplogroup A (mtDNA), a human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup
• Haplogroup A (Y-DNA), a Y-chromosomal DNA (Y-DNA) haplogroup
• A+ and A-, human blood types
• Adenine, nucleic acid

Computing

• A*, a pathfinding algorithm
• A-0 System, early computer compiler
• A+ (programming language)
• A Sharp (Axiom), properly known as "A#"
• BASIC A+
• <a>, the HTML element for an anchor tag
• A# (A port of Ada to the Microsoft .NET Platform, [1])

The arts

• A (musical note), the sixth musical note
• A (album), 1980 album by progressive rock band Jethro Tull
• A (band) is a rock band from Leeds, formed in 1995
• A (Cass McCombs album), 2003 album by Cass McCombs
• "A" (song), Ayumi Hamasaki's 10th single, released 1999
• A, a rating in India's Central Board of Film Certification
• A is a Kannada movie directed by Upendra
• "A", song by Cartel (band)
• "A", song by the band Barenaked Ladies
• A, or "side A," refers to the top or first side of a vinyl record
• "A", major poem by 20th century author Louis Zukofsky

Linguistics

• A and an, the indefinite article in English
• A (kana), the Japanese kana あ and ア which may be used to represent Asia

Miscellanea

• A-Frame, a type of structure
• A (New York City Subway service), also known as the "A Eighth Avenue Express"
• A, the alternate name for Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116, a Swedish child born in 1991
• "The As", nickname for Oakland Athletics
• A, the U.S. ticker symbol for Agilent Technologies
• A with a circle, used in anarchist symbolism

Media

• A, A Canadian Television Network.

See also

• A band (disambiguation)
• A Class
• Class A