CAS

CAS, CaS, or cas may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Music

• Calling All Stations, the fifteenth and final studio album by Genesis
• CAS (album), a 2018 album by Lúnasa, an Irish Celtic band
• Cigarettes After Sex, an American dream pop band

Other arts and entertainment

• Čas, a Czech magazine associated with Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk founded in 1886
• Classic Arts Showcase, an American television channel promoting the fine arts
• Cowboy action shooting, a competitive shooting sport

Computing

• CAS latency (column address strobe or column address select), a latency in reading computer memory
• Central Authentication Service, a single sign-on protocol
• Cloud Analytic Services, a server that provides the cloud-based, run-time environment for data management and analytics with SAS (software)
• Code Access Security in the Microsoft .NET framework
• Compare-and-swap, a special CPU instruction, an atomic instruction used in multithreading to achieve synchronization
• Computer algebra system, a software program that facilitates symbolic mathematics
• Conditional access system, a technology used in set-top boxes to allow conditional viewing of TV channels
• Content-addressable storage, a data storage mechanism
• Copyright Alert System, a former voluntary code
• Cycle-accurate simulator, a computer program that simulates a microarchitecture in a cycle-accurate manner

Military

• Chief of the Air Staff (disambiguation), the professional head of the air force in some Commonwealth nations
• Close air support, a military tactic whereby aircraft are utilized to support friendly forces
• Combat armor suit, a specialized suit that provides powered armor
• Cost Accounting Standards, accounting requirements for larger defense and government contractors (United States)

People

• Cas (name), a list of people and fictional characters with the given name, nickname, or surname
• Cas (people), an ancient people near the Caspian Sea

Organisations

• California Academy of Sciences, a major natural history museum and center for scientific research
• Casablanca American School, a school in Casablanca, Morocco
• Casualty Actuarial Society, an professional society of actuaries in the United States
• Český atletický svaz, Czech Athletics Federation, the sports governing body in the Czech Republic
• Chemical Abstracts Service, a division of the American Chemical Society
• Children's Aid Society, a private charity in New York, US
• Children's Aid Society (Ontario), a Canadian government organization
• Chinese Academy of Sciences, the national academy for the natural sciences of China
• Christchurch Adventist School, a Seventh-day Adventist school in New Zealand
• Cinema Audio Society, an association of sound professionals in the motion picture and television industry
• Citizens Advice Scotland, the umbrella organisation for Citizens Advice Bureaux in Scotland
• Civil Aid Service, a Hong Kong Civil Aid agency
• College of Arts and Sciences, name for various educational institutions
• Combined Associated Schools, an association of private schools in Sydney, Australia
• Comite d'action socialiste, Socialist Action Committee, a French Resistance network
• Computer Arts Society, UK
• Connecticut Association of Schools, the governing body for secondary school sports competitions in Connecticut, US
• Contemporary Art Society, England, UK
• Contemporary Art Society (Australia)
  • Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia
• Contemporary Arts Society, Canada
• Council for the Advancement of Standards in Higher Education, a consortium of professional student development organizations in higher education
• Court of Arbitration for Sport, an international arbitration body set up to settle disputes related to sports
• Czech Academy of Sciences, a research association in the Czech Republic

Science and medicine

• Calcium sulfide (CaS), a chemical compound
• Carotid artery stenting, endovascular surgery of the carotid artery
• Cas (mathematics), also known as the cosine and sine (cas) function (or Hartley kernel)
• Cas guava (Psidium friedrichsthalianum), a Costa Rican guava species
• CAS parameters, an image analysis method typically used in astronomy
• Cassiopeia (constellation) (Cas), standard astronomical abbreviation
• Cells Alive System, a line of commercial freezers sold by Japanese ABI Corporation
• Chemical Abstracts Service, a division of the American Chemical Society which produces bibliographic and chemistry databases
  • CAS Registry Number, unique numerical identifiers for chemical substances
• Childhood apraxia of speech, a developmental speech disorder
• Cis-abienol synthase, an enzyme
• Cognitive Assessment System, an academic assessment test given to children
• Complex adaptive system, special cases of complex systems
• Computer Aided Surgery (journal)
• Computer-assisted surgery, the use of computer technology in surgery
• CRISPR-associated (Cas) proteins, involved in the prokaryotic immune system and genome editing
• Critical animal studies, an interdisciplinary field in the humanities and social sciences
• Critical autism studies, an interdisciplinary research field led by autistic people

Transport

Aerospace

• Calibrated airspeed, the airspeed shown by an airspeed indicator
• Casablanca–Anfa Airport (IATA code)
• Covenant Aviation Security, LLC, a company that provides security services to the aviation industry
• Crew-alerting system, the cockpit computer that issues system warnings to pilots

Rail

• Castleton railway station, Manchester, England (National Rail station code)
• Chicago, Attica and Southern Railroad, a former line in the American states of Indiana and Illinois

Other uses

• Čas, the former official daily newspaper of the Democratic Party of Slovakia
• Caș, a type of cheese made in Romania
• Cas Cay, an island in St. Thomas, United States Virgin Islands
• Certificate of Advanced Study, a postgraduate certificate
• Channel-associated signaling, in telecommunications
• Clark Ashton Smith (1893–1961), American author and artist
• Collision avoidance system, an automobile safety system
• Controlled atmosphere stunning, a method for slaughtering animals
• County Antrim Shield, a football tournament in Northern Ireland
• Creativity, activity, service, the community service aspect of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with CAS
• All pages with titles containing CAS
• CASE (disambiguation)