ABC

ABC are the first three letters of the Latin alphabet. They may refer to:

Contents 1 Broadcasting media 2 Cars 3 Companies 4 Computer science 5 Economics 6 Mathematics 7 Medicine and biology 8 Motorcycles 9 Music 9.1 Songs and albums 9.2 Groups 9.3 Record labels 9.4 Other music 10 Organizations and projects 10.1 Ornithological 10.2 Political 10.3 Religious 10.4 Sports 10.5 Other organizations and projects 11 Places 12 Publications and media organizations 13 Technology 14 Other uses

Broadcasting media

• American Broadcasting Company, a private US broadcaster
• Australian Broadcasting Corporation, national publicly funded broadcaster of Australia
• ABC Radio, the former name of Cumulus Media Networks, an American radio network (formerly owned by the American Broadcasting Company)
• ABC (Swedish news programme), a regional news programme
• Asahi Broadcasting Corporation, a Japanese commercial television and radio station
• Associated Broadcasting Company, a Philippine television network
• Associated British Corporation, a former British film and television company
• ABC (newspaper), Spanish daily newspaper

Cars

• ABC (1906 automobile), an American car
• ABC (1920 automobile), an English car
• ABC (1922 automobile), a planned American car
• Active Body Control, a type of automobile suspension technology
• ABC Motors, an English manufacturer of aircraft, aero engines and cars

Companies

• ABC Stores (Hawaii), a chain of convenience stores
• ABC Group, a department store
• ABC Learning Centres, an Australian child care business
• Agricultural Bank of China, a bank in the People's Republic of China
• Aerated Bread Company, a former and once famous British bakery and tea-room chain
• Appalachian Brewing Company, an American brewery
• Arab Banking Corporation
• ABC Cinemas, a UK cinema chain
• Anglo Belgian Corporation, diesel engine manufacturer
• Audit Bureau of Circulations, publication circulation auditing companies
  • Audit Bureau of Circulations (India)
  • Audit Bureau of Circulations (UK)
  • Audit Bureau of Circulations (North America)

Computer science

• ABC (block cipher), a block cipher algorithm
• ABC (computer virus), virus
• ABC (programming language), an imperative general-purpose programming language and programming environment developed at CWI, Netherlands by Leo Geurts, Lambert Meertens, and Steven Pemberton
• Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm, a search algorithm used for optimizing multi-variable and multi-modal numerical functions
• ABC (stream cipher), a stream cipher algorithm
• ABC (Yet Another BitTorrent Client), a free software, open source BitTorrent client based on BitTornado
• ABC, a line of computer models designed by Dataindustrier AB of Sweden
• ABC notation, a language for notating music using the ASCII character set
• Abstract base class, a programming language concept
• Acorn Business Computer, a series of microcomputers announced at the end of 1983 by the British company Acorn Computers
• Alcatel Business Communications, a telecommunications protocol
• Atanasoff–Berry Computer, an early electronic digital computer

Economics

• ABC analysis, an inventory categorization technique
• Activity-based costing, an accounting method

Mathematics

• abc conjecture, a concept in number theory
• ABC formula
• Approximate Bayesian computation, a family of statistical techniques

Medicine and biology

• Abacavir, an antiretroviral drug used to treat HIV/Aids
• ABC (medicine), a mnemonic for "Airway, Breathing, Circulation"
• ABC model of flower development, a genetic model
• Abortion – breast cancer hypothesis, a posited connection between breast cancer and abortion
• Aneurysmal bone cyst, a kind of lesion
• ATP-binding cassette transporter, a transmembrane protein
• ABC strategy for "Abstinence, be faithful, use a condom", a sex education strategy

Motorcycles

• ABC motorcycles

Music

Songs and albums

• ABC (album), a 1970 album by The Jackson 5
  • "ABC" (song), a 1970 song by The Jackson 5
• ABC (Jin album), a 2007 album by Chinese-American rapper Jin. ABC is Jin's fourth overall album, which was released on February 20, 2007
  • "ABC" (Jin song), Jin's first single off his 4th album "ABC" (American-born Chinese)
• "ABC" (Pipettes song)
• Alphabet song, or "the ABC's", a song used to teach children the alphabet
• ABCs (song), the first official single by rapper K'naan on his album Troubadour

Groups

• ABC (band), a UK New Wave band
• Another Bad Creation, an American R&B and rap musical group
• Acid Black Cherry, a Japanese Rock band
• Alien Beat Club, a Danish pop band

Record labels

• ABC Classics, an Australian record label
• ABC Records, an American record label

Other music

• O2 ABC Glasgow, a music venue
• ABC notation, a musical notation language

Organizations and projects

Ornithological

• African Bird Club, a British ornithological charity
• Australian Bird Count, a project of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union

Political

• All Basotho Convention, a political party in Lesotho
• Anarchist Black Cross, an anarchist political support organization
• Anything But Conservative, or ABC campaign, 2008 Canadian federal election political campaign
• Association of British Counties, an advocacy group
• Anti-Bases Campaign, an organisation campaigning to remove foreign military bases and intelligence installations from New Zealand, and to dismantle the Government Communications Security Bureau

Religious

• Association of Baptist Churches in Ireland, a Republic of Ireland and a United Kingdom based Christian denomination

Sports

• Amateur Boxing Club (alternate name of Amateur Boxing Association of England), the governing body of amateur boxing clubs in England
• Indianapolis ABCs, a Negro league baseball team that played in the early to mid 1900s

Other organizations and projects

• African Black Coalition, a University of California student organization
• Aircraft Builders Council, a provider of aviation products liability insurance
• American Bowling Congress, now part of the United States Bowling Congress

Places

• ABC nations, a political term referring to Argentina, Brazil and Chile
• ABC Islands (Alaska), a term referring to Admiralty Island, Baranof Island, and Chichagof Island
• ABC islands (Lesser Antilles), a term referring to Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao
• ABC Region, an industrial area outside of São Paulo, Brazil
• Academia Británica Cuscatleca (ABC), a school in Santa Tecla, El Salvador
• Altnabreac railway station (National Rail code), in Scotland
• American Bank Center, an arena located in Corpus Christi, Texas

Publications and media organizations

• ABC (Audit Bureau of Circulations UK), a circulation-auditing organization in the UK and Ireland
• ABC (newspaper), a Spanish newspaper founded in 1903
• Alphabet book, or ABC book, any of several children's books depicting the alphabet
• America's Best Comics, an imprint of DC Comics
• Audit Bureau of Circulations (North America), a circulation-auditing organization in North America
• Audit Bureau of Circulations (India), a circulation-auditing organization in the India

Technology

• ABC Dry Chemical, a fire extinguishing agent
• ABC weapon or Weapon of mass destruction
• Aerial bundled cable, for power lines
• Automatic Buffer Couplers, railway couplers
• Alice, Bob and Charlie (and variants), a nomenclature convention used in cryptography

Other uses

• ABC Futebol Clube, a football (soccer) club based in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
• Advanced Booking Charter, a kind of air travel
• Air batu campur, also known as ais kacang, a Malaysian dessert
• Alcoholic beverage control state, the American system of state regulation of alcoholic beverage sales
• Alien big cat or phantom cat, a large feline that has been purported to appear in regions outside its indigenous range
• Alphabet, a standardized set of letters
• American-born Chinese, people of Chinese ethnicity born in the USA
• Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope (1883–1963), nicknamed ABC, a British World War II admiral
• Asian brown cloud A layer of air pollution
• "ABC-DEF-GHI", a song from the television show Sesame Street
• "Always Be Closing", a sales and marketing aphorism that stresses the importance of completing as many possible sales as often as possible. Notably expounded on by the character Blake in the David Mamet-written movie Glengarry Glen Ross

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