| astronomer | (noun) a physicist who studies astronomy | Synonyms: stargazer, uranologist |
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| astronomic | (adjective) relating or belonging to the science of astronomy | Synonyms: astronomical |
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| (adjective) inconceivably large | Synonyms: astronomical, galactic |
| astronomical | (adjective) relating or belonging to the science of astronomy | Synonyms: astronomic |
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| (adjective) inconceivably large | Synonyms: astronomic, galactic |
| astronomically | (adverb) enormously | - |
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| astronomy | (noun) the branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole | Synonyms: uranology |
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| astrophysical | (adjective) of or concerned with astrophysics | - |
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| astrophysicist | (noun) an astronomer who studies the physical properties of celestial bodies | - |
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| astrophysics | (noun) the branch of astronomy concerned with the physical and chemical properties of celestial bodies | - |
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| astute | (adjective) marked by practical hardheaded intelligence | Synonyms: sharp, shrewd |
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| astutely | (adverb) in a shrewd manner | Synonyms: acutely, sagaciously, sapiently, shrewdly |
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| astuteness | (noun) intelligence manifested by being astute (as in business dealings) | Synonyms: perspicaciousness, perspicacity, shrewdness |
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| (noun) the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas | Synonyms: deepness, depth, profoundness, profundity |
| astylar | (adjective) lacking columns or pillars | - |
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| asunder | (adjective) widely separated especially in space | - |
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| (adverb) into parts or pieces | Synonyms: apart |
| asylum | (noun) a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person | Synonyms: insane asylum, institution, mental home, mental hospital, mental institution, psychiatric hospital |
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| (noun) a shelter from danger or hardship | Synonyms: refuge, sanctuary |
| asymmetric | (adjective) characterized by asymmetry in the spatial arrangement or placement of parts or components | Synonyms: asymmetrical |
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| asymmetrical | (adjective) characterized by asymmetry in the spatial arrangement or placement of parts or components | Synonyms: asymmetric |
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| (adjective) irregular in shape or outline | Synonyms: crooked |
| asymmetrically | (adverb) in an asymmetrical manner | Synonyms: unsymmetrically |
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| asymmetry | (noun) (mathematics) a lack of symmetry | - |
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| asymptomatic | (adjective) having no symptoms of illness or disease | Synonyms: symptomless |
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| asymptote | (noun) a straight line that is the limiting value of a curve; can be considered as tangent at infinity | - |
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| asymptotic | (adjective) relating to or of the nature of an asymptote | - |
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| asymptotically | (adverb) toward an asymptote | - |
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| asynchronism | (noun) the relation that exists when things occur at unrelated times | Synonyms: asynchrony, desynchronisation, desynchronization, desynchronizing |
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| asynchronous | (adjective) not synchronous; not occurring or existing at the same time or having the same period or phase | - |
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| (adjective) (digital communication) pertaining to a transmission technique that does not require a common clock between the communicating devices; timing signals are derived from special characters in the data stream itself | - |
| asynchrony | (noun) the relation that exists when things occur at unrelated times | Synonyms: asynchronism, desynchronisation, desynchronization, desynchronizing |
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| asynclitism | (noun) the presentation during labor of the head of the fetus at an abnormal angle | Synonyms: obliquity |
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| asyndetic | (adjective) lacking conjunctions | - |
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| asyndeton | (noun) the omission of conjunctions where they would normally be used | - |
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| asynergia | (noun) absence of coordination of organs or body parts that usually work together harmoniously | Synonyms: asynergy |
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| asynergic | (adjective) of or relating to the state of asynergy; lacking synergy | - |
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| asynergy | (noun) absence of coordination of organs or body parts that usually work together harmoniously | Synonyms: asynergia |
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| asystole | (noun) absence of systole; failure of the ventricles of the heart to contract (usually caused by ventricular fibrillation) with consequent absence of the heart beat leading to oxygen lack and eventually to death | Synonyms: cardiac arrest, cardiopulmonary arrest |
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