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AN

nounnounproper nountop 100 in film dialogue

A set of sizes for screw threads agreed upon and jointly used by the United States Army and Navy.

noun

  1. 1

    A set of sizes for screw threads agreed upon and jointly used by the United States Army and Navy.

Etymology

Derived from the first letters of army and navy.

noun

  1. 1

    Variant of author's note or authors' noteInitialism of author's note or authors' note.

  2. 2

    Variant of antinatalismInitialism of antinatalism.

  3. 3

    Variant of antinatalistInitialism of antinatalist.

Etymology

Abbreviations.

proper noun

  1. 1

    Variant of the Andaman and Nicobar IslandsInitialism of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands: a union territory of India.

Forms

plural
ANs
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).