ASA
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ASA, as an initialism, stands for:
- In chemistry
- Accessible Surface Area
- Acetylsalicylic acid; see Salicylic acid and Aspirin
- Acrylonitrile Styrene Acrylate
- In mathematics
- Adaptive Simulated Annealing, an optimization algorithm
- Angle-side-angle, a method for proving congruency of triangles
- In sport
- Adult Soccer Association, in the United States
- Agremiação Sportiva Arapiraquense, a soccer club from Brazil
- Amateur Softball Association
- American Sailing Association
- American Speed Association, formerly a second-tier stock car racing circuit in the United States
- Atlético Sport Aviação, a soccer club from Angola
- Australian Soccer Association, a former name of the soccer governing body now known as Football Federation Australia
- In photography
- The name of a film speed rating system defined by the (then) American Standards Association (see below)
- In a military context
- Anti-Soviet agitation
- Army Security Agency; formerly the Signals Security Agency, an intelligence agency of the United States
- One of a number of bodies or companies including
- Acoustical Society of America
- Advertising Standards Authority in the UK
- American Society of Anesthesiologists and an IV rating of anesthetic risk
- American Standards Association; a former name of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
- American Sociological Association
- American Statistical Association
- Autism Society of America
- Atlantic Southeast Airlines
- Associate of the Society of Actuaries
- the ICAO code for Alaska Airlines
- ASA (automobile), an Italian automobile
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See also
- Asa, a name