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ABC are the first three letters of the Latin script known as the alphabet
ABC may refer to:
Broadcasting
- American Broadcasting Company, a commercial U.S. broadcaster
- ABC Radio, the former name of the American radio network Cumulus Media Networks
- Disney–ABC Television Group, parent organization of ABC Television Network
- ABC (newspaper), Spanish daily newspaper
- ABC (Swedish news programme), a regional news programme
- ABC Development Corporation, former name of TV5 Network, Inc., a Philippine television company
- Asahi Broadcasting Corporation, a Japanese commercial television and radio station
- Associated British Corporation, a former British film and television company
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation, national publicly funded broadcaster of Australia
- ABC (Australian TV channel), the flagship TV channel of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Companies
- ABC Stores (Hawaii), a chain of convenience stores in Hawaii
- ABC Group, a department store
- ABC Learning Centres, a former Australian childcare business
- Agricultural Bank of China, a bank in the People's Republic of China
- Aerated Bread Company, a 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)
Computers
- ABC (computer virus)
- ABC (programming language), a programming language and environment
- ABC (stream cipher), a stream cipher algorithm
- ABC (Yet Another BitTorrent Client), a BitTorrent client
- ABC, a line of computers by Dataindustrier AB
- ABC notation, a language for music notation
- 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
- .abc, ActionScript Byte Code files; see Comparison of application virtual machines
- Alcatel Business Communications, a telecommunications protocol
- Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm, a search algorithm
- Atanasoff–Berry Computer, an early electronic digital computer
Economics
- ABC analysis, an inventory categorization technique
- Activity-based costing, an accounting method
- Assignment for the benefit of creditors, a concept in bankruptcy law
Science and medicine
- 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
Mathematics
- abc conjecture, a concept in number theory
- ABC formula
- Approximate Bayesian computation, a family of statistical techniques
Music
Songs and albums
- ABC (The Jackson 5 album), a 1970 album by The Jackson 5
- "ABC" (The Jackson 5 song), the title song
- ABC (Jin album), a 2007 album by Chinese-American rapper Jin
- "ABC" (Jin song), the title song
- ABC (Kreidler album), a 2014 album by Kreidler
- "ABC" (The Pipettes song)
- Alphabet song, or "the ABCs
- ABCs (song), a single on the album Troubadour by rapper K'naan
- ABC (Anna Book song), from 1986
Groups
- A.B.C-Z (A.B.C. till 2008), a Japanese boyband managed by Johnny's and Associates
- 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
Other
- ABC Classics, an Australian record label
- ABC Records, an American record label
- O2 ABC Glasgow, a music venue
- ABC notation, a musical notation language
Organizations
Ornithology
- African Bird Club, a British ornithological charity
- Australian Bird Count, a project of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union
- American Bird Conservancy
Politics
- All Basotho Convention, a political party in Lesotho
- Americans Battling Communism
- Anarchist Black Cross, political organization
- Anything But Conservative, 2008 Canadian political campaign
- Association of British Counties, of historic counties
Religion
- American Baptist Convention, former name of American Baptist Churches USA
- Association of Baptist Churches in Ireland, in Ireland and the United Kingdom
Other
- 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
- Indianapolis ABCs, a 1900s Negro league baseball team
Places
- ABC nations, Argentina, Brazil, and Chile
- ABC Islands (Alaska), Admiralty Island, Baranof Island, and Chichagof Island
- ABC islands (Lesser Antilles), Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao
- ABC Region, an industrial area outside of São Paulo, Brazil
- Academia Británica Cuscatleca, a school in Santa Tecla, El Salvador
- Altnabreac railway station, Scotland, by National Rail code
Publications and media
- ABC (Audit Bureau of Circulations UK), a circulation-auditing organization in the UK and Ireland
- ABC (newspaper), a Spanish newspaper founded in 1903
- ABC Color, a Paraguayan newspaper founded in 1967
- Alphabet 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
Transport
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
Other
- ABC motorcycles
- Advance Booking Charter, a type of air travel
- Automatic Buffer Couplers, railway couplers
Other uses
- ABC Futebol Clube, a football (soccer) club based in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
- Air batu campur, also known as ais kacang, a Malaysian dessert
- Alcoholic beverage control, US; ABC board may run ABC stores
- Alien big cat, large feline outside its indigenous range
- atomic, biological, and chemical, now rendered as chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear
- Alphabet, and metaphorically the fundamentals of any subject (e.g. "the ABC[s] of finance")
- The A.B.C., the alphabet song, to learn the alphabet
- Ambala language, a Sambalic language of the Philippines, ISO 639-3 code
- American-born Chinese, people of Chinese ethnicity born in the United States
- Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope, nicknamed ABC, British WWII admiral