CAS
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CAS can mean:
- Anfa Airport in Casablanca (IATA location identifier)
- Calibrated airspeed, the airspeed shown by an airspeed indicator
- Casualty Actuarial Society
- Central Authentication Service, a single sign-on protocol
- Certified Annuity Specialist
- Changing Armour System, used by the Liger Zero and Berserk Führer, fictional mecha from the Zoids universe
- Channel Associated Signaling, a type of communication signaling common for digital PBX
- Chemical Abstracts Service, CAS Registry Number
- Chief of the Air Staff, in some Commonwealth nations, the professional head of the air force
- Children's Aid Society
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Cinema Audio Society, a professional organization for sound Mixers from film and television
- Civil Aid Service, a Hong Kong Civil Aid agency
- Close Air Support
- Column Access Strobe / Column Address Select, a term relating to computer memory, see CAS Latency
- Combat Armor Suit, also known as powered armor
- Combined Associated Schools, An association of private schools in Sydney
- Compare-and-swap, a special CPU instruction
- Complete active space, in quantum chemistry, a type of classification for the molecular orbitals
- Complex adaptive system
- Computer algebra system
- Computer-assisted surgery
- Computer-aided surgery
- Concentration, Asymmetry, Clumpiness, a method of classifying galaxy morphologies
- Conditional Access System
- Contemporary Art Society
- Content-addressable storage, a data storage mechanism
- Corporate Audit Services, a consulting department in a financial institution
- Court of Arbitration for Sport
- Cowboy Action Shooting
- Creativity, Action, Service, the community service aspect of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme
- Cybercafé Administration Server, a software tool
Cas can mean:
- The people who were living south of the Caspian sea and north of the Alborz mountains. Gilaks (gilak or gilek) are their descendants. Cases were people with light hair and blue or green eyes. In the gileki language, caas-e-chum means blue or green eye.
- Cassiopeia (constellation), standard astronomical abbreviation