AGA
Encyclopedia
Medicine
- Adequate, Appropriate or Average for Gestational Age, referring to prenatal growth rate
- Anti-gliadin antibodiesAnti-gliadin antibodiesAntigliadin antibodies are produced in response to gliadin, a prolamin found in wheat. In bread wheat it is encoded by three different alleles, AA, BB, and DD. These alleles can produce slightly different gliadins, which can cause the body to produce different antibodies...
- Androgenetic alopeciaAndrogenetic alopeciaAndrogenic alopecia is the most common cause of hair loss and thinning in humans. Variants appear in both men and women. Androgenic alopecia also occurs in chimpanzees, and orangutans. In humans, this condition is also commonly known as male pattern baldness...
- AspartylglucosaminidaseAspartylglucosaminidaseN--L-asparaginase is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the AGA gene.-Further reading:-External links:...
Business
- AGA (automobile)AGA (automobile)AGA was a German automobile company, once quite large, which manufactured its wares in Berlin from 1919 to 1929, and which by 1922 was manufacturing 1000 cars a month. It was part of the Stinnes group of companies. AGA stood for Autogen Gasaccumulator AG, a company originally founded in 1914.The...
, Autogen Gasaccumulator AG, 1920's German car company - AGA ABAGA ABAGA AB, previously AB Gasaccumulator and AB Svenska Gasaccumulator, was a Swedish industrial gas company founded in 1904. Nobel Prize laureate Gustaf Dalén was instrumental in the success of the company. Important inventions included the AGA cooker and the Dalén light. In the 1990's AGA conceived...
, Aktiebolaget Svenska Gasaccumolator, a Swedish company, the originator of the AGA Cooker. - Aga Rangemaster Group
- AGA cookerAGA cookerThe AGA cooker is a stored-heat stove and cooker invented in 1929 by the Nobel Prize-winning Swedish physicist Gustaf Dalén , who was employed first as the chief engineer of the Swedish AGA company...
, a cooker currently manufactured by Aga Rangemaster Group
- AGA cooker
People
- Alemu AgaAlemu AgaAlemu Aga is an Ethiopian musician and singer, a master of the bèguèna.Born in Entotta, near Addis Ababa, Alemu became interested in the begena at the age of twelve, when a master of the instrument moved in next door to his family, the Aleqa Tessema Welde-Emmanuel...
, Ethopian musician - Aga, diminutive of the name Agnieszka, the Polish form of Agnes (name)Agnes (name)Agnes is a female given name, which derives from the Greek name Ἁγνὴ hagnē, meaning "pure" or "holy". The Latinized form of the Greek name is Hagnes, the feminine form of Αγνός Hagnos, meaning "chaste" or "sacred"...
- Aga of KishAga of KishAga is listed on the Sumerian King List as the last king in the first Dynasty of Kish.Aga is mentioned in the Epic of Gilgamesh as having besieged Uruk...
, Ensi of Kish and King of Sumer - Ağa (disambiguation), Turkish surname
- Agha (Ottoman Empire), Aga, Agha, or Ağa, an Ottoman Turkish military and administrative rank
- Aga Khan IVAga Khan IVPrince Karim, Aga Khan IV, NPk, NI, KBE, CC, GCC, GCIH, GCM is the 49th and current Imam of the Shia Imami Nizari Ismaili Muslims. He has held this position under the title of Aga Khan since July 11, 1957, when, at the age of 20, he succeeded his grandfather, Sultan Mahomed Shah Aga Khan...
, Imam of the IsmailiIsmaili' is a branch of Shia Islam. It is the second largest branch of Shia Islam, after the Twelvers...
Muslims, and Founder & Chairman of the AKDN
Groups
- American Gaming AssociationAmerican Gaming AssociationThe American Gaming Association is a United States gaming industry association.The AGA was founded in 1995 with the goal of promoting, educating and lobbying on behalf of the gaming entertainment industry through education and advocacy...
- American Gas AssociationAmerican Gas AssociationThe American Gas Association , founded in 1918, is an American trade organization representing natural gas supply companies and others with an interest in the manufacturing of gas appliances as well as the production of gas...
- American Gastroenterological AssociationAmerican Gastroenterological AssociationThe American Gastroenterological Association "AGA" is a medical association of gastroenterologists. About 17,000 scientists and physicians are members of the organization.-Overview:...
- American Go AssociationAmerican Go AssociationThe American Go Association was founded in 1935 to promote the board game of Go in the United States. Founded by chess master Edward Lasker and some friends at Chumley's restaurant in New York City, the AGA is one of the oldest Western Go associations...
- American Grandprix AssociationAmerican Grandprix AssociationThe American Grandprix Association is a national association that promotes Olympic-level show jumping in the United States.The AGA was established in 1978 by Eugene R. Mische...
- Assemblies of God in AustraliaAssemblies of God in AustraliaAustralian Christian Churches , also known as Assemblies of God in Australia , is a Pentecostal Christian denomination and the Australian branch of the Assemblies of God, the largest Pentecostal denomination in the world...
, a Pentecostal denomination - Association of Government AccountantsAssociation of Government AccountantsThe Association of Government Accountants was founded on September 14, 1950. AGA serves Federal, State and local government accounting professionals by providing education, encouraging professional development, providing Government Accounting certification, and supporting standards and research to...
, government accounting professional organization, that administers the CGFM certification
Places
- Aga, NiigataAga, Niigatais a town located in Higashikanbara District, Niigata Prefecture, Japan. It has an area of 952.88 km² and a population of 13,865 as of April 1, 2008...
, Japan - Aga, the HungarianHungarian languageHungarian is a Uralic language, part of the Ugric group. With some 14 million speakers, it is one of the most widely spoken non-Indo-European languages in Europe....
name for BrestovăţBrestovatBrestovăţ is a commune in Timiş County, Banat, Romania.Brestovăţ first appears in written history as Breztolcz in 1440. From 1723–25 it was known as Preztovaz. It is composed of five villages: Brestovăţ, Coşarii, Hodoş , Lucareţ and Teş....
Commune, Timiş County, Romania - Monte AgaMonte AgaMonte Aga is a mountain of Lombardy, Italy. It is located within the Bergamo Alps....
, mountain in Italy
Other
- AGA, the IATA airport code for Al Massira AirportAl Massira AirportAgadir – Al Massira Airport is an international airport serving Agadir, a major city in southwest Morocco. Agadir is the capital of the province of Agadir and the region of Souss-Massa-Draâ....
, Agadir, Morocco - Alcohol and Gaming AuthorityAlcohol and Gaming AuthorityThe Alcohol and Gaming Authority is an agency of the government of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia that regulates gambling and alcoholic beverages in the province....
, government body in Nova Scotia, Canada - Art Gallery of AlbertaArt Gallery of AlbertaThe Art Gallery of Alberta is a public art gallery located in downtown Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Its collection of well over 6,000 works of art includes historical and contemporary paintings, sculptures, installation works and photographs by Canadian and international artists...
, formery called the Edmonton Art Gallery - Aga (bird), Corvus kubaryi - the Mariana Crow
See also
- Agga (disambiguation)
- Agatunet, a place in HordalandHordalandis a county in Norway, bordering Sogn og Fjordane, Buskerud, Telemark and Rogaland. Hordaland is the third largest county after Akershus and Oslo by population. The county administration is located in Bergen...
, Norway - AegeaAegeaAegea is a back-formation from "Aegean", the sea that was named for an eponymous Aegeus in early levels of Greek mythology. The Encyclopaedia Britannica mentioned an Aegea, queen of the Amazons, as an alternative eponym of the Aegean Sea, and Aegea was the name of the wife of the Roman proconsul...