ABC
ABC are the first three letters of the Latin script known as the alphabet.
 |
Look up ABC, abc, A.B.C., or ABCs in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. |
ABC or abc may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
Broadcasting
- American Broadcasting Company, a commercial U.S. TV broadcaster
- Disney–ABC Television Group, the former name of the parent organization of ABC Television Network
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation, one of the national publicly funded broadcasters of Australia
- ABC Television (Australian TV network), the national television network of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
- ABC TV (Australian TV channel), the flagship TV station of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
- ABC (TV station), Canberra, and other ABC TV local stations in state capitals
- ABC Australia (Southeast Asian TV channel), an international pay TV channel
- ABC Television (Australian TV network), the national television network of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
- ABC Radio (disambiguation), various radio stations including the American and Australian ABCs
- Associated Broadcasting Corporation, one of the former names of TV5 Network, Inc., a Philippine television company
- ABC 5, the former name of TV5 (Philippines), a Philippine free-to-air network
- ABC (Swedish TV programme), a former Swedish regional news programme
- ABC Weekend TV, a former British television company
- Asahi Broadcasting Corporation, a Japanese commercial television and radio station
- Associated Broadcasting Company, a former name of Associated Television, a British television company
Groups
- ABC (band), an English new wave band
- A.B.C-Z (A.B.C. till 2008), a Japanese boyband managed by Johnny's and Associates
- Acid Black Cherry, a Japanese rock band
- Alien Beat Club, a Danish pop band
- Another Bad Creation, an American R&B and rap musical group
Labels
- ABC Classics, an Australian record label
- ABC Records, an American record label
Albums
- ABC (The Jackson 5 album), a 1970 album by The Jackson 5
- ABC (Jin album), a 2007 album by Chinese-American rapper Jin
- ABC (Kreidler album), a 2014 album by the band Kreidler
Other uses in music
- ABC song (disambiguation), various songs with this title
- ABC notation, a musical notation language
- O2 ABC Glasgow, a music venue
Periodicals
- ABC (magazine), an Italian magazine published between 1960 and 1977
- ABC (newspaper), a Spanish daily newspaper founded in 1903
- ABC (Monterrey newspaper), a Mexican newspaper founded in 1985
- ABC Color, a Paraguayan newspaper founded in 1967
Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media
- ABC Cinemas, a UK cinema chain
- Alphabet book, any of several children's books depicting the alphabet
- America's Best Comics, an imprint of DC Comics
Places
- ABC countries, Argentina, Brazil, and Chile
- ABC Islands (Alaska), Admiralty Island, Baranof Island, and Chichagof Island
- ABC islands (Leeward Antilles), Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao
- ABC Region, an industrial area outside of São Paulo, Brazil
- Albacete Airport, a joint civilian/military airport serving Albacete, Spain (IATA: ABC)
- Altnabreac railway station, Scotland, by National Rail code
- Appa Balwant Chowk, area of Pune, India, famous for its bookshops
Brands and enterprises
Companies
Financial
- Agricultural Bank of China, a bank in the People's Republic of China
- Arab Banking Corporation, an international bank headquartered in Bahrain
Food and beverage
- ABC (food), an Indonesian-based food division of the H. J. Heinz Company
- Aerated Bread Company, a once-famous British bakery and tea-room chain
- Appalachian Brewing Company, an American brewery
Transport
- ABC (1906 automobile), an American car
- ABC (1920 automobile), an English car
- ABC (1922 automobile), a planned American car
- ABC motorcycles, a British motorcycle manufacturer
- ABC Motors, an English manufacturer of aircraft, aero engines and cars
- ABC Rail Guide, British railway guide published between 1853 and 2007
Other companies
- ABC Learning Centres, a former Australian childcare business
- ABC Stores (Hawaii), a chain of convenience stores in Hawaii
- Aircraft Builders Council, a provider of aviation products liability insurance
- Anglo Belgian Corporation, a diesel engine manufacturer
- Audit Bureau of Circulations (disambiguation), publication circulation auditing companies
- Audit Bureau of Circulations (India), a non-profit circulation-auditing organisation
- Audit Bureau of Circulations (North America)
- Audit Bureau of Circulations (UK)
Mathematics
- abc conjecture, a concept in number theory
- ABC formula
- Approximate Bayesian computation, a family of statistical techniques
Organizations
Political organizations and unions
- ABC (Cuba), Cuban political organization 1931–1952, named after the system for labeling its clandestine cells
- All Basotho Convention, a political party in Lesotho
- Alliance for Barangay Concerns, a political party in the Philippines
- American Bakery and Confectionery Workers International Union, a predecessor to the contemporary Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers' International Union
- Americans Battling Communism, founded 1947
- Anarchist Black Cross, a political organization
- Anything But Conservative, a 2008 Canadian political campaign
- Association of Barangay Captains, an organization of all the barangays (villages) in the Philippines now known as the League of Barangays in the Philippines
- Association of British Counties, of historic counties
Religious organizations
- American Baptist Convention, former name of American Baptist Churches USA
- Association of Baptist Churches in Ireland, in Ireland and the United Kingdom
Sports organizations
- ABC Futebol Clube, a football (soccer) club based in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
- American Bowling Congress, which merged in 2005 with other bowling organizations to form the United States Bowling Congress (USBC)
- Association of Boxing Commissions, a North American not-for-profit professional boxing and mixed martial arts (MMA) organization
- Indianapolis ABCs, a 1900s Negro league baseball team
Other organizations
- Academia Británica Cuscatleca, a school in Santa Tecla, El Salvador
- Accessible Books Consortium, a subunit of the World Intellectual Property Organization
- Afrikan Black Coalition, a University of California student organization
- American Bird Conservancy, a non-profit membership organization
- Association of Black Cardiologists, a North American non-profit
- Australian Bird Count, a project of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union
- Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, Virginia, US
Science and technology
Biology and medicine
- ABC (medicine), a mnemonic for "Airway, Breathing, Circulation"
- Abacavir, an antiretroviral drug used to treat HIV/AIDS
- ABC model of flower development, a genetic model
- Abortion–breast cancer hypothesis, a posited connection between breast cancer and abortion
- Alien big cat, large feline outside its indigenous range
- Aneurysmal bone cyst, a kind of lesion
- ATP-binding cassette transporter, a transmembrane protein
Hardware
- ABC, a line of computers by Dataindustrier AB
- Acorn Business Computer, a series of microcomputers announced at the end of 1983 by the British company Acorn Computers
- Atanasoff–Berry computer, an early electronic digital computer
Other uses in computing
- ABC (computer virus), a memory-resident, file-infecting computer virus
- ABC (programming language), a programming language and environment
- ABC (stream cipher), a stream cipher algorithm
- .abc, ActionScript Byte Code files; see comparison of application virtual machines
- .abc, or Alembic (computer graphics) file format
- Abstract base class, a programming language concept
- Artificial bee colony algorithm, a search algorithm
Economics
- ABC analysis, an inventory categorization technique
- Activity-based costing, an accounting method
- Assignment for the benefit of creditors, a concept in bankruptcy law
Psychology
- ABC data collection, a descriptive functional behavior assessment method in applied behavior analysis
- Affective-behavioral-cognitive (ABC) model, an attitude component model
Transportation
- Active Body Control, a type of automobile suspension technology
- Automatic Buffer Couplers, a type of railway couplers
Other uses in science and technology
- ABC dry chemical, a fire extinguishing agent
- ABC weapon, a weapon of mass destruction
- Accelerated bridge construction, a technique for building bridges
- Aerial bundled cable, for power lines
- Airborne Cigar, a British military electronic countermeasure system used during World War II (WWII) to jam Luftwaffe night fighter communications
- Atomic, biological, and chemical defense, now rendered as chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear defense
Other uses
- Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope (1883–1963), nicknamed ABC, British WWII admiral
- ABC strategy, for "Abstinence, be faithful, use a condom", a sex-education strategy
- ABC trial of Crispin Aubrey, John Berry and Duncan Campbell in 1978 in the United Kingdom under the Official Secrets Act 1911
- American-born Chinese, people of Chinese ethnicity born in the United States
- Australian-born Chinese, people of Chinese ethnicity born in Australia
- Advance Booking Charter, a type of air travel
- Air batu campur, also known as ais kacang, a Malaysian dessert
- Architectural, building and construction, an industry; for example see Industry Foundation Classes
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.