#acis
- Acâș — A commune and village center in Satu Mare County, Transylvania, Romania, situated along the Crasna River. The locality is historically renowned at national and European levels for its early Romanesque style church (13th century), originally built as a Benedictine monastery, as well as for its thermal spa resort featuring iodized waters used in therapeutic treatments.
- Anti-racial — Opposed to racism and race-based discrimination; directed against ideologies that support the superiority or inferiority of human groups based on ethnic or racial criteria. The term characterizes social movements, civic demonstrations, administrative policies, or international legislative frameworks designed to promote full equality of rights, tolerance, and intercultural harmony.
- Anti-racism — A doctrine, attitude, or social and political movement that opposes racism, combating any form of discrimination, prejudice, or segregation based on race or ethnicity. This ideological current actively promotes full equal rights for all human beings, social inclusion, and the dismantling of institutional or cultural structures that perpetuate racial inequities.
- Anti-racist — Opposing racism or fighting against it; an advocate of anti-racism. As an adjective, it describes measures, discourses, laws, organizations, or civic movements designed to combat racial discrimination and segregation. As a noun, it denotes a person who takes an active stance, theoretically or practically, against supremacist ideologies, campaigning for the equality of all ethnic groups.
- Anti-racist — The feminine form of antirasist; a woman campaigning against racism, or an orientation, action, or measure of an inclusive nature that opposes discrimination and segregation based on ethnic or racial criteria. The term describes an active civic stance aimed at deconstructing stereotypes and guaranteeing equal opportunities for all human groups within social and institutional structures.
- Anti-Semitic — Demonstrating hostility, aversion, prejudice, or hatred toward Jews, their culture, religion, or community interests; a proponent of antisemitism. As an adjective, it characterizes racist discourses, discriminatory laws, extremist political movements (such as Nazism or Fascism), or propagandistic currents designed to instigate violence, persecution, and ethnic segregation. As a noun, it denotes a person who promotes or adopts an open xenophobic stance against the Jewish population.
- Anti-Semitic — The feminine form of antisemit; a woman, organization, doctrine, or legislative measure demonstrating hostility, intolerance, or hatred toward Jews, their culture, or the Jewish religion. The term characterizes actions, segregationist laws, or propagandistic currents aimed at discriminating against Jewish communities and undermining human rights.
- Antisemitism — An attitude, doctrine, or political and social movement characterized by hostility, prejudice, discrimination, or systematic hatred toward Jewish people, based on religious, racial, cultural, or economic grounds. This historical phenomenon has taken various forms of expression, ranging from medieval pogroms and institutionalized discrimination in state laws to the systematic persecution and mass extermination of the Jewish population during the Holocaust.
- Antigypsyism — A specific form of racism, xenophobia, and intolerance manifested through prejudice, discrimination, hate speech, negative stereotypes, and acts of violence directed against Romani people (Gypsies). This structural and historical phenomenon translates into social marginalization, educational segregation, and economic exclusion, and is officially combated through national legislations and international human rights treaties.
- Antigypsyist — Pertaining to antigypsyism, relating to prejudice and discrimination against the Romani people, or propagating racist manifestations toward them; a person who exhibits a hostile, xenophobic, and discriminatory attitude toward Roma, adopting or promoting negative stereotypes and hate speech.
- Antigypsyist — The feminine form of the adjective or noun antițigănist; relating to the assembly of manifestations, archaic laws, mentalities, or actions based on ethnic intolerance (e.g., antigypsyist propaganda, antigypsyist mentality) or a female who discriminates against people of Romani origin.
- Anthrax — An acute and highly severe infectious disease, common to humans and animals, caused by the spore-forming bacterium Bacillus anthracis. The condition is transmitted through direct contact with infected animals or contaminated products and can manifest in cutaneous (malignant pustule), pulmonary, or gastrointestinal forms, carrying a high mortality rate without early antibiotic treatment.
- Apartheid — An official state policy of racial segregation, systemic discrimination, and economic oppression applied by the white minority government in South Africa against the Black population between 1948 and 1994. This structural regime was based on the complete separation of communities into distinct residential areas, schools, and hospitals, depriving the majority of basic political rights.
- Textile bobbin — A regional or archaic technical term used in the textile industry and traditional crafts to denote a large spool, bobbin, or structural support made of wood or cardboard on which thick threads, textiles, or cords are wound. The device ensures the uniform unwinding of the material during the weaving or spinning process, preventing tangling or breaking of the threads.