Ans

Ans may refer to:

• Ans, a Belgian municipality in the province of Liège
• Ans, Denmark, a village in Denmark
• Ans (given name), A Dutch feminine given name

As an acronym ANS may refer to:

Music

• ANS (album), a box set from the British band Coil
• "ANS" (song), a single by the British band Coil
• ANS synthesizer, a Russian photoelectric musical instrument
• A.N.S, an American crossover thrash band

Transportation

• The station code of Ainsdale railway station in England
• The IATA airport code of Andahuaylas Airport in Peru

Media

• Algemeen Nijmeegs Studentenblad, a Dutch student magazine
• ANS Group of Companies, a news organization in Azerbaijan

Science and technology

• Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, USA
• American National Standards, defined by the American National Standards Institute
• Adrenergic nervous system, adrenaline and noradrenaline neurotransmitters distribution in human body
• Advanced Network and Services, a non-profit network service provider in the 1990s
• American Nuclear Society
• 8-Anilino-1-naphthalenesulfonic acid, a fluorescent chemical compound used as a molecular probe
• Anthocyanidin synthase, an enzyme in the leucocyanidin biosynthetis pathway
• Approximate number system, a hypothesized physiological basis for the sense of number
• Astronomical Netherlands Satellite, a Dutch X-ray satellite
• Asymmetric Numeral Systems, coding in data compression
• Audubon Naturalist Society, an environmental organization based in the Washington, DC area
• Authoritative name server, a DNS server
• Autonomic nervous system, part of the peripheral nervous system in the body
• ANS carriage control characters (or ASA control characters), for computer line printers
• Air Navigation Services, as delivered by an Air Navigation Service Provider (ANSP)

Other uses

• Aktiefront Nationaal Socialisme, a forbidden Dutch neonazi group
• Algemene Nedersaksiese Schriefwieze, a Dutch Low Saxon orthography
• American Nicaraguan School
• American Numismatic Society
• Amman National School, in Amman, Jordan
• Anna Nicole Smith, American model and actress
• Ansvarlig selskap, a Norwegian personal responsibility company model
• Armée Nationale Sihanoukiste, a Cambodian resistance group
• In MATLAB, the ans variable is created automatically when no output argument is specified, and it refers to the most recent answer.