Ansa Ansa can refer to any of the following : As an acronym : ANSA is the Alliance of Norwegian Students Abroad , with approximately 9000 members . ANSA is also an Italian cooperative whose main business is that of news agency . ANSA is also the acronym used by the Australian Network of Student Anthropologists . This network was formed in November 2005 as a student-run arm of the Australian Anthropological Society . In Computer-aided engineering , ANSA is a commercial pre-processing software ( Automatic Net-generation for Structural Analysis ) . Ansa means constant in Arabic . In Hinduism , Ansa ( Aṃśa ) is a solar deity and one of the Adityas . Ansa is Latin for handle . It has several uses derived from this meaning : 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 ( for example , the ansa lenticularis and ansa cervicalis ) . In archaeology it is used for the engraved and ornamented handle of a vase , which has oft en survived when the vase itself , being less durable , has disappeared . In chemistry it is used to describe a bridge between to functional groups/ligands . This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title . If an internal link led you here , you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article . Categories : Disambiguation Aṃśa 