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Ansa or ANSA can refer to any of the following:

Ansa, Queen of the Lombards, 8th century, wife of Desiderius, king of the Lombards
Ansa (moth), genus of moth
Ansa (Hinduism) or Aṃśa in Hinduism, a solar deity and one of the Adityas.
ansa as part of Arabic words means "constant"

As the acronym ANSA:

Afghan National Standards Association, the ISO representative organization for Afghanistan.
Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata, Italian news agency
- Ansa Mediterranean or ANSAmed, section of the above
Association of Norwegian Students Abroad
Applied Neuroscience Society of Australasia
Australian Network of Student Anthropologists, student-run arm of the Australian Anthropological Society.
ANSA, an Italian manufacturer of OEM exhaust systems for automobiles.
ANSA Pre-processor, commercial pre-processing software (Automatic Net-generation for Structural Analysis).
The Planet of the Apes equivalent of NASA; it is never made clear in the movies what the letters actually stand for.

ansa is Latin for "handle". It has several uses derived from this meaning:

In anatomy, the word is applied to nervous structures which resemble loops (for example the ansa lenticularis, ansa cervicalis, Loop of Henle (ansa nephroni) or the ansa of the tympanal organ).
In archaeology it is used for the engraved and ornamented handle of a vase, which has often survived when the vase itself, being less durable, has disappeared.
In astronomy, one of the apparent ends of the rings of Saturn as seen in perspective from the earth: so-called because, in the earlier telescopes, they looked like handles projecting from the planet.
In chemistry, it is used to describe a bridge between two functional groups/ligands.
In the plural ansae, in astronomy, compact nebulosities such as can be found in protoplanetary nebulae.

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ANSA (from Lat. ansa, a handle), in astronomy, one of the apparent ends of the rings of Saturn as seen in perspective from the earth: so-called because, in the earlier telescopes, they looked like handles projecting from the planet. In anatomy the word is applied to nervous structures which resemble loops. In archaeology it is used for the engraved and ornamented handle of a vase, which has often survived when the vase itself, being less durable, has disappeared.