ACS

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ACS is a three-letter acronym that may refer to:

Aviation and military

• Air Cess, cargo airline based in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
• Auxiliary Crane Ship, a vessel of the United States Navy
• Aerial Common Sensor, a reconnaissance aircraft airframe for the United States Army and Navy
• Army Combat Shirt, flame-resistant shirt developed for the United States Army

Companies

• Actividades de Construcción y Servicios, S.A. (IBEX-35 stock symbol: ACS) Madrid, Spain
• Advanced Composites Solutions, engineering company specialized in composite materials technology
• Affiliated Computer Services (stock symbol: ACS), a business and technology outsourcing company
• Alaska Communications System, former name of AT&T Alascom, an American communications services company
• Alaska Communications Systems, an American communications services company, distinct from "AT&T Alascom"

Education

• Alternative Community School, a combined middle and high school in New York, United States
• American College of Sofia, a prestigious secondary school in Sofia, Bulgaria
• American Community School at Beirut, an international private school located in Beirut, Lebanon
• American Community School in Amman, an international school in Amman, Jordan
• ACS International Schools, a group of international schools in England
• Anglo-Chinese Schools, Singapore, a group of Methodist schools in Singapore
• Anglo-Chinese Schools, Malaysia, a group of Methodist schools in Malaysia
• Associated Colleges of the South, a group of leading liberal arts colleges in the United States
• Assumption College School, a catholic high school in Ontario, United States
• American Community Schools, an English-speaking private school system in Athens, Greece
• Avery Coonley School, a private elementary school in Illinois, United States

Science, technology, and medicine

• Action Code Script, a scripting language used in video games such as HeXen and modern Doom ports
• Advanced Camera for Surveys, an instrument aboard the Hubble Space Telescope
• Acute coronary syndrome, a form of chest pain due to reduced oxygen supply to the heart muscle
• ACS-1 and ACS-360, supercomputers designed but never completed in the 1960s by the IBM Advanced Computing Systems
• Anticenter shell, a supershell located outside of the galaxy.
• Auto-Configuration Server, encompasses auto configuration for Customer-Premises equipment
• Automated Cartridge System, a storage and retrieval system, often used for library management
• Advanced Console Servers, a terminal server range from the Alabama based company, Avocent
• ALMA Common Software, a control framework for the ALMA project
• Acetyl-CoA Synthetase
• Adaptive communication system, a message-passing protocol that can adapt to changes in load and traffic

National societies

• American Cancer Society, an American medical organization
• American Chemical Society, an American professional association
• American Colonization Society, an organization that helped in founding Liberia, for use in the slave trade
• American Constitution Society for Law and Policy, an organization of lawyers and law students in the United States
• American Cryonics Society, non-profit corporation that supports and promotes research and education into cryonics
• Australian Cinematographers Society
• Australian Computer Society, an association for information and communications technology professionals

Other

• Association of Caribbean States
• Adam Carolla Show, American morning radio program
• Adventure Construction Set, a program used to construct Ultima-type videogames
• Alternative compensation system, a way to allow reproduction of digital copyrighted works while still paying the authors and copyright owners
• Australian Customs Service, the Australian Government agency responsible for the Australian border
• American Community Survey, a project of the United States Census Bureau
• Antichrist Superstar, a 1996 rock album by Marilyn Manson
• Apolyton Civilization Site, a website for players of the Civilization series of computer games
• Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians, an association founded England in 1973 to collect cricket data
• Automobile Club de Suisse, a Swiss member of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile