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An ax (or axe) is a tool or weapon.

AX, Ax, or ax may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

See also: § People with the surname Ax

• Ax (manga)
• Ax (wrestler)
• Larry "The Ax" Hennig, another wrestler
• Anime Expo, an anime convention
• Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill, a fictional Animorphs character
• Ax, Ernie Colón's Marvel graphic novel
• Armani Exchange or A|X, fashion line
• Nippon TV, a Japanese television from its code sign "JOAX-DTV"

Places

• Åland (ISO 3166-1 country code AX)
• Akrotiri and Dhekelia (FIPS 10-4 code AX)
• Ax-les-Thermes, a village in France

Transportation

• Trans States Airlines (IATA code AX)
• Citroën AX, a French subcompact car

Computing

• .ax, the Internet top-level domain of Åland
• AX register, a general-purpose 16-bit X86 register
• AX architecture, a Japanese computing initiative to allow PCs to handle Japanese text via special hardware
• Microsoft Dynamics AX, an enterprise resource planning tool
• IEEE 802.11ax, a standard for wireless local area networks, marketed as Wi-Fi 6

People with the surname Ax

Ax is a surname. It may be a German occupational surname metonymically derived from the word Ax, 'axe' (axe maker, woodcutter, carpenter). Notable people with the surname include:

• Emanuel Ax (born 1949), Polish-American pianist and academic
• James Ax (1937–2006), American mathematician
• Kathlen Ax (born 1993), Finnish handball player
• Patrick Ax (born 1979), Dutch footballer
• Peter Ax (1927–2013), German zoologist

See also

• All pages with titles containing Ax

See also

• Axe (disambiguation)
• el:AX
• ru:Ах