ASI
Encyclopedia
Names
- ASI SolutionsASI SolutionsASI Solutions is an Australian IT company that was formed in 1985. It employs around 180 staff and has branches in Sydney, Canberra, Brisbane, Melbourne and Adelaide. ASI also provides services to customers in Fiji, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands....
, an Australian IT company - Asi, a Russian name for the OssetiansOssetiansThe Ossetians are an Iranic ethnic group of the Caucasus Mountains, eponymous of the region known as Ossetia.They speak Ossetic, an Iranian language of the Eastern branch, with most also fluent in Russian as a second language....
- Asi, another name for the Orontes RiverOrontes RiverThe Orontes or ‘Āṣī is a river of Lebanon, Syria and Turkey.It was anciently the chief river of the Levant, also called Draco, Typhon and Axius...
- Asi languageAsi languageThe Asi language is a Visayan language spoken, along with the Romblomanon and Onhan languages, in the province of Romblon, Philippines. The language is also known as Bantoanon, Calatravanhon, Odionganon, Sibalenhon, Simaranhon, and Bisaya.Specifically, it is spoken on the following islands within...
, a language spoken by Bantoanons from the island of Banton, Philippines - Asi, Creek language for the Black drinkBlack drinkBlack drink was the name given by colonists to a ritual beverage called Asi, brewed by Native Americans in the Southeastern United States...
brewed by Native Americans of the Southeastern United States from the leaves of the yaupon holly. - American Share InsuranceAmerican Share InsuranceAmerican Share Insurance is a privately held deposit guaranty corporation that insures shares in some state chartered credit unions. ASI was established in 1974 as the National Guaranty Insurance Fund, changing its name to American Share Insurance in the early 1990s...
, a private deposit insurer - Anjuman Serfaroshan-e-Islam
Technology
- AS-i, (AS-InterfaceAS-InterfaceAS-Interface is an industrial networking solution used in PLC, DCS and PC-based automation systems. It is designed for connecting simple field I/O devices AS-Interface (Actuator Sensor Interface, AS-i) is an industrial networking solution (physical layer, data access method and protocol) used in...
) or Actuator Sensor Interface, a type of fieldbus - Airspeed indicatorAirspeed indicatorThe airspeed indicator or airspeed gauge is an instrument used in an aircraft to display the craft's airspeed, typically in knots, to the pilot.- Use :...
- Asynchronous serial interfaceAsynchronous serial interfaceAsynchronous Serial Interface, or ASI, is a streaming data format which often carries an MPEG Transport Stream .An ASI signal can carry one or multiple SD, HD or audio programs that are already compressed, not like an uncompressed SD-SDI or HD-SDI . An ASI signal can be at varying transmission...
, standardised transport interface for the broadcast industry - Advanced Switching Interconnect, a peer-to-peer enhancement of PCI ExpressPCI ExpressPCI Express , officially abbreviated as PCIe, is a computer expansion card standard designed to replace the older PCI, PCI-X, and AGP bus standards...
- Area-specific impedance, a measure of Acoustic impedanceAcoustic impedanceThe acoustic impedance at a particular frequency indicates how much sound pressure is generated by a given air vibration at that frequency. The acoustic impedance Z is frequency dependent and is very useful, for example, for describing the behaviour of musical wind instruments...
Organizations
- Adam Smith InstituteAdam Smith InstituteThe Adam Smith Institute, abbreviated to ASI, is a think tank based in the United Kingdom, named after one of the founders of modern economics, Adam Smith. It espouses free market and classical liberal views, in particular by creating radical policy options in the light of public choice theory,...
, a libertarian think tank in the United Kingdom - Anthropological Survey of IndiaAnthropological Survey of IndiaAnthropological Survey of India is the apex Indian organisation involved in anthropological studies and field data research for human and cultural aspects, working primarily in the fields of physical anthropology and cultural anthropology...
- Archaeological Survey of IndiaArchaeological Survey of IndiaThe Archaeological Survey of India is a department of the Government of India, attached to the Ministry of Culture . The ASI is responsible for archaeological studies and the preservation of archaeological heritage of the country in accordance with the various acts of the Indian Parliament...
- Italian Space AgencyItalian Space AgencyThe Italian Space Agency is a government agency established in 1988 to fund, regulate and coordinate space exploration activities in Italy...
, in Italian Agenzia Spaziale Italiana - The Advertising Specialty InstituteAdvertising Specialty InstituteThe is the largest for profit organization serving the advertising specialty industry . Members of ASI include both manufacturers and suppliers of promotional merchandise as well as promotional product distributors...
Others
- The Sanskrit for "sword", see Asi (Sanskrit)
- Ashford International railway stationAshford International railway stationAshford International railway station serves Ashford in Kent, England. Services are provided by Southeastern, Southern and Eurostar.International services use platforms 3 & 4, whilst domestic trains use the original platforms 1 & 2, and a new island built when the Channel Tunnel opened...
(EurostarEurostarEurostar is a high-speed railway service connecting London with Paris and Brussels. All its trains traverse the Channel Tunnel between England and France, owned and operated separately by Eurotunnel....
services) in KentKentKent is a county in southeast England, and is one of the home counties. It borders East Sussex, Surrey and Greater London and has a defined boundary with Essex in the middle of the Thames Estuary. The ceremonial county boundaries of Kent include the shire county of Kent and the unitary borough of...
, United KingdomUnited KingdomThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages... - Asi (TV series), a Turkish TV series
- Assistant Sub-Inspector of PoliceAssistant Sub-Inspector of Police- India :In the police forces of India, an assistant sub-inspector is a non-gazetted police officer ranking above a police head constable and below a sub-inspector. The rank insignia for an ASI is one star, and a red and blue striped ribbon at the outer edge of the shoulder straps....
or ASI - ASI, the IATA Airport code for Wideawake Airport on Ascension IslandAscension IslandAscension Island is an isolated volcanic island in the equatorial waters of the South Atlantic Ocean, around from the coast of Africa and from the coast of South America, which is roughly midway between the horn of South America and Africa...