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An ace is a playing card.
Ace may also refer to:
[edit] Film and TV
[edit] Publications
- Ace (baseball), the best starting pitcher on a baseball team
- Ace (tennis), a point won by the server without contest
- Alaska Aces, a minor league ice hockey team
- Alaska Aces (PBA), a Philippine Basketball Association team
- Cornwall Aces, a former professional hockey team
- Ace, another term for hole in one, a golf drive off the tee that ends in the cup
- Loughborough Aces, Loughborough University (UK) American Football team
- Lower Merion High School Aces, the athletics teams at Lower Merion High School
- Quebec Aces, a professional hockey team
[edit] Fictional characters
- Ace (comics), a member of the Royal Flush Gang from DC Comics
- Ace (Doctor Who), a character in the Doctor Who television series
- Ace (G.I. Joe), a character in the G.I. Joe universe
- Ace Blackwell, a fictional character from the sitcom Half & Half
- Ace Bunny A character from the show Loonatics Unleashed
- Ace Lightning (character), the eponymous character in Ace Lightning
- Ace the Bat-Hound, a canine crime-fighting partner of Batman
- Ace the Wonder Dog, a canine actor active in the 1930s and 1940s
- Portgas D. Ace, a fictional character in the anime One Piece, brother to the main character, Monkey D. Luffy
- Ace Rimmer, a fictional alter ego of Arnold Rimmer in the British television series Red Dwarf
- Ace Ventura, the main character in Ace Ventura media
[edit] People
- Ace Adams (1912 - 2006), baseball player
- Ace Andres (born 1956), rock singer-songwriter
- Ace Backwords, underground cartoonist
- Ace Bailey (1903 - 1992), hockey player
- Ace Brigode (1893 - 1960), band leader
- Ace Darling, stage name for professional wrestler Mike Maraldo (born 1974)
- Ace Frehley (born 1951), rock and roll guitarist and member of the rock band Kiss
- Ace Vergel (1952 - 2007), Filipino actor
- Ace Young (born 1980), finalist in the TV series American Idol
- Ace, nickname for Rich Franklin (born 1974), mixed martial artist
[edit] Transportation
- Ace (1913 automobile), a British car built between 1912 and 1916
- Ace (1920 automobile), an American-assembled car made in Michigan
- ACES (New Jersey Transit), a future rail line in the northeastern United States
- Ace Baby Ace, the world's first aircraft to be marketed as a homebuilt aircraft
- Ace Junior Ace, a two-seat sports aircraft sold in kit and plans form
- AC Ace, a sports car from AC Cars
- Advanced Compatibility Engineering, a Honda Motor Company auto body design marketing name
- Altamont Commuter Express, a commuter train service in the San Francisco Bay Area connecting Stockton with San Jose
- Atlantic City Expressway, a toll road between Pennsylvania and New Jersey
- Atlantic Coast Express, an express passenger train in England
- Atlantic Council of Engineering Students
- Arrecife Airport in Spain, from its IATA airport code
- Cougar Ace, a RoRo car ferry developed a sever list in 2006 reulting in 4700 care being destroyed
- HMS Ace (P414), an Amphion-class submarine of the Royal Navy
- ACE, IATA code for Lanzarote Airport
- M9 Armored Combat Earthmover, an armored tracked vehicle that provides combat engineer support to front-line forces
- Tata Ace, a small four wheeled truck made by the Indian company Tata
[edit] Groups and companies
[edit] Science and technology
- ACeS, an Asia-specific satellite telecommunications company
- ACES (nutritional supplement), an antioxidant supplement
- ACES (buffer), one of Good's buffers
- ACES (computational chemistry), a computational chemistry package
- ACE inhibitors, pharmaceuticals that are used primarily in treatment of hypertension and congestive heart failure
- Accumulated cyclone energy, a measure used to express the activity of hurricane seasons
- Acepromazine, a drug commonly used as a sedative in horses, dogs, and cats. Also occasionally used in humans
- Acetylcholine esterase
- Advanced Crew Escape Suit, a full pressure suit
- Antarctic Climate and the Earth System, a science programme
- Angiotensin-converting enzyme, targeted by ACE inhibitors, a common treatment for heart attack patients
- Atomic Clock Ensemble in Space, a planned ultra-stable atomic clock system for installation on the International Space Station
- Advanced Composition Explorer, a NASA satellite launched in 1997
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