Ansa

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Ansa can refer to any of the following:

• Ansa, 8th century, wife of Desiderius, king of the Lombards
• Ansa means constant in Arabic.
• Ansa (Aṃśa) in Hinduism, is a solar deity and one of the Adityas.

• As an acronym:
  • ANSA is the Alliance of Norwegian Students Abroad, with approximately 9000 members.
  • ANSA is also an Italian cooperative whose main business is that of news agency.
  • ANSA is also the acronym used by the Australian Network of Student Anthropologists. This network was formed in November 2005 as a student-run arm of the Australian Anthropological Society.
  • ANSA is an Italian Manufacturer of OEM exhaust systems for automobiles.
  • In Computer-aided engineering, ANSA is a commercial pre-processing software (Automatic Net-generation for Structural Analysis).
  • ANSA is the Afhgan National Standards Association, the ISO representative organization for Afghanistan.

• Ansa is Latin for handle. It has several uses derived from this meaning:
  • in astronomy, one of the apparent ends of the rings of Saturn as seen in perspective from the earth: so-called because, in the earlier telescopes, they looked like handles projecting from the planet.
  • In anatomy the word is applied to nervous structures which resemble loops (for example, the ansa lenticularis, ansa cervicalis, and ansa nephroni).
  • In archaeology it is used for the engraved and ornamented handle of a vase, which has often survived when the vase itself, being less durable, has disappeared.
  • In chemistry it is used to describe a bridge between to functional groups/ligands.