CAS
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CAS can mean:
Media
- Classic Arts Showcase, a 24-hour noncommercial satellite channel broadcasting a mix of various classic arts.
Institutions
- California Academy of Sciences
- Casualty Actuarial Society
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Court of Arbitration for Sport
- Combined Associated Schools, an association of private schools in Sydney
Computing
- Central Authentication Service, a single sign-on protocol
- Code Access Security in the Microsoft .NET framework
- Compare-and-swap, a special CPU instruction
- Computer algebra system
- Cybercafé Administration Server, a software tool
- Conditional access system
- Console server, also known as Console Access Server
- Channel Associated Signaling, a type of communication signaling common for digital PBX
- CAS latency (column address strobe latency or column address select latency), a latency in reading computer memory
- Content-addressable storage, a data storage mechanism
- Cycle Accurate Simulator
- Consumer alert system, a spyware/adware program
Science
- Cognitive Assessment System (CAS)
- Complete active space, in quantum chemistry, a type of classification for the molecular orbitals
- Complex adaptive system
- Computer algebra system
- Calcium sulfide, a chemical compound
- Chemical Abstracts Service, CAS registry number
- Cassiopeia (constellation), standard astronomical abbreviation
Military
- Chief of the Air Staff, in some Commonwealth nations, the professional head of the air force
- Close air support
- Combat Armor Suit, also known as powered armor
- Cost Accounting Standards, accounting requirements for larger defense and government contractors (United States)
Other
- Children's Aid Society
- Calibrated airspeed, the airspeed shown by an airspeed indicator
- Certificate of Advanced Study
- Cowboy action shooting
- Creativity, Action, Service, the community service aspect of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme
- Civil Aid Service, a Hong Kong Civil Aid agency
- Changing Armour System, used by the Liger Zero and Berserk Führer, fictional mecha from the Zoids universe
- Cloud Appreciation Society
- Crank Angle Sensor
- CAS is the ICAO airline designator for Christman Air System, United States
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