CAS

CAS can mean:

Media

• Classic Arts Showcase, a 24-hour noncommercial satellite channel broadcasting a mix of various classic arts.

Institutions

• California Academy of Sciences
• Casualty Actuarial Society
• Chinese Academy of Sciences
• Court of Arbitration for Sport
• Combined Associated Schools, an association of private schools in Sydney
• Swiss Alpine Club (Club Alpin Suisse, Club Alpino Svizzero)

Computing

• Central Authentication Service, a single sign-on protocol
• Common Authorization Service, "an application-level protocol for distributed, collaborated authenticating and authorizing systems"
• Code Access Security in the Microsoft .NET framework
• Compare-and-swap, a special CPU instruction
• Computer algebra system
• Cybercafé Administration Server, a software tool
• Conditional access system
• Console server, also known as Console Access Server
• Channel Associated Signaling, a type of communication signaling common for digital PBX
• CAS latency (column address strobe latency or column address select latency), a latency in reading computer memory
• Content-addressable storage, a data storage mechanism
• Cycle Accurate Simulator
• Consumer alert system, a spyware/adware program
• Conditional Access System, Conditional Access System

Science

• Cognitive Assessment System (CAS)
• Complete active space, in quantum chemistry, a type of classification for the molecular orbitals
• Complex adaptive system
• Computer algebra system
• Calcium sulfide, a chemical compound
• Chemical Abstracts Service, a division of the American Chemical Society which produces bibliographic and chemistry databases
• Cassiopeia (constellation), standard astronomical abbreviation

Medicine

• Computer assisted surgery

Military

• Chief of the Air Staff, in some Commonwealth nations, the professional head of the air force
• Close air support
• Combat Armor Suit, also known as powered armor
• Cost Accounting Standards, accounting requirements for larger defense and government contractors (United States)

Other

• Children's Aid Society
• Calibrated airspeed, the airspeed shown by an airspeed indicator
• Certificate of Advanced Study
• Cowboy action shooting
• Creativity, Action, Service, the community service aspect of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme
• Civil Aid Service, a Hong Kong Civil Aid agency
• Changing Armour System, used by the Liger Zero and Berserk Führer, fictional mecha from the Zoids universe
• Cloud Appreciation Society
• Crank Angle Sensor
• Cam Angle Sensor
• CAS is the ICAO airline designator for Christman Air System, United States
• Create-a-Superstar, a creation mode found in wrestling games that most often goes by Create-a-wrestler (CAW)

See also

• Cas

Cas is a Sexy person in Holland - Tilburg