Ant (disambiguation)

An ant is a eusocial insect that belongs to the same order as wasps and bees.

Ant, Ants, or ANT may refer to:

In science and computing

• Actor-network theory, an approach to social theory and research
• Adenine nucleotide translocator
• ANT (network), a wireless personal area network protocol
• Antenna noise temperature
• ANTS (conference), a symposium on Algorithmic Number Theory
• Ants is another name for Web crawlers
• Apache Ant, a Java-based software build system
• In computing, ant is another name for Turmite
• Microsoft Ants, a free multi-player PC game
• Langton's ant, a two-dimensional Turing machine with a very simple set of rules

In geography

• Ant, a village in Avram Iancu, Bihor County, Romania
• Ant Atoll, part of the Senyavin island group in the Federated States of Micronesia
• Antigua and Barbuda (IOC Country code ANT)
• Netherlands Antilles (ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code ANT)
• River Ant, a river in Norfolk, England

In arts and entertainment

• Afghanistan National Television
• American Negro Theater, formed in Harlem on June 5, 1940
• Ant (chair), a modern chair designed by Arne Jacobsen
• Ant (comics), a character from Image comics
• Ant (DC Comics), a superhero from DC Comics
• A.N.T. Farm, TV-series
• Les Fourmis or The Ants, a series of French novels by Bernard Werber
• The Ants, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reference book about ants
• Ants!, also called It Happened at Lakewood Manor, a 1977 TV film starring Suzanne Sommers and Robert Foxworth
• ANT1, a major Greek broadcaster

People

• Adam Ant (born 1954), real name Stuart Leslie Goddard, British musician

"Ant" is a diminutive of the given name "Anthony" or "Antony", popular in Britain, but less common elsewhere.

• Ant Henson (born 1989), British singer-songwriter
• Ant (comedian) or Anthony Steven Kalloniatis, an American stand-up comedian and actor
• Ant (producer) or Anthony Davis, American record producer and member of Rhymesayers
• Ant or Anthony McPartlin, British television presenter
• Ant or Anthony Phillips (born 1951), British guitarist with the band Genesis
• ANT or Antony Harding, British musician

Other

• HMS Ant, ships of the Royal Navy
• Ant, abbreviation for Anacamptis, a genus of orchids
• ANT, Aids to Navigation Team of the United States Coast Guard
• ANT, early designation for aircraft designed by Andrei Nikolayevich Tupolev
• A division of the United States National Security Agency, identified as an acronym in the NSA ANT catalog, presumably "Advanced Network Technology"
• ANT Software Limited, an embedded software company
• Ant (newspaper), (Turkish 'Oath') a leftwing weekly publication in Turkey
• Antlia, constellation abbreviation as standardized by the International Astronomical Union

See also

• Ain't, of which "an't" is an obsolete spelling
• Antz, an animated film
• Aunt