Asa

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Asa \As"a\, n. [NL. asa, of oriental origin; cf. Per. az[=a]
     mastic, Ar. as[=a] healing, is[=a] remedy.]
     An ancient name of a gum.
     [1913 Webster] Asafetida

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:



  ASA
       American Standards Association (org., USA, ANSI, predecessor)
       
       

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  ASA
       Advanced SCSI Architecture (SCSI)
       
       

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  ASA
       
          {Adaptive Simulated Annealing}
       
       

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Asa
     physician, son of Abijah and grandson of Rehoboam, was the third
     king of Judah. He was zealous in maintaining the true worship of
     God, and in rooting all idolatry, with its accompanying
     immoralities, out of the land (1 Kings 15:8-14). The Lord gave
     him and his land rest and prosperity. It is recorded of him,
     however, that in his old age, when afflicted, he "sought not to
     the Lord, but to the physicians" (comp. Jer. 17:5). He died in
     the forty-first year of his reign, greatly honoured by his
     people (2 Chr. 16:1-13), and was succeeded by his son
     Jehoshaphat.
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Asa, physician; cure