ALS (disambiguation)
ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) is a chronic and fatal form of motor neuron disease; also known as Lou Gehrig's disease in the US, or Charcot's disease in the French-speaking world.
ALS or Als may also refer to:
Places
- Als (island), Denmark
Aviation
- Airman Leadership School, a U.S. Air Force program
- ALS – Aircraft Leasing Services, a Kenyan airline
- Approach lighting system, an airport runway lighting system
- San Luis Valley Regional Airport, IATA code ALS
Medicine
- Advanced life support, a level of medical training
- Anterolateral system, part of the nervous system
- Antibodies from lymphocyte secretions, an immunological assay
- Angular leaf spot, a bacterial plant disease
Science and technology
- Acetolactate synthase, an enzyme
- Advanced Light Source, a synchrotron radiation facility
- ALSN, automatic train signalling (автоматична локомотивна сигналізація), a train protection system
- Alternate line service, a mobile phone feature
- Aluminized steel, as used in engineering drawings
- Ammonium lauryl sulfate, a household chemical
- Antilag system, a system used on turbocharged engines
- Audio Lossless Coding, an audio codec
- LS TTL, advanced low-power Schottky
- Photodetector, ambient light sensor
- Alternating least squares, a matrix factorization method
Organizations
- Als, a nickname used for the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League
- ALS Association, an American nonprofit organization
- American Littoral Society, an American environmental organization
- Antar Lintas Sumatera, an Indonesian intercity bus company
- Arrowhead Library System (Wisconsin)
- Australian Linguistic Society
- Associated London Scripts, a comedy-writers collective founded by Spike Milligan
Other uses
- A. Lange & Söhne, a German luxury watch brand
- als, since 2003 prefix for the Wikipedia (als:Wikipedia:Houptsyte) of Alemannic German dialects like Alsatian, Swabian, Swiss German
- als, since 2007 the ISO 639-3 code for the southern Albanian dialect (Tosk Albanian)
- Alternative Learning System (Philippines), a modular non-formal education program
- Associate of the Linnean Society of London
- Auld Lang Syne, a traditional Scottish folk song
- Autographed Letter Signed, a term used by autograph collectors
- Singapore Area Licensing Scheme