Ace (disambiguation)

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An ace is a playing card. Ace, Aces, ACE or ACES may also refer to:

Sports

Terminology

• Ace (baseball), a team's best starting pitcher
• Ace (golf), a hole in one
• Ace (tennis), a point won by the server without contest
• Ace formation, also known as single set back, an American football formation

Teams

• Alaska Aces (ECHL), an American ice hockey team
• Alaska Aces (PBA), a Philippine basketball team
• Alexandria Aces, an American baseball team in Virginia
• Belle Vue Aces, an English motorcycle speedway team
• Cornwall Aces, a Canadian ice hockey team playing 1993-1996
• Dallas Aces, the world's first professional bridge team
• Lower Merion High School Aces, the athletic teams at the school in suburban Philadelphia
• Melbourne Aces, an Australian baseball team founded 2009
• Northeast League Aces, a Canadian-American baseball team
• Quebec Aces, a Canadian ice hockey team playing 1928-1971
• Reno Aces, an American baseball team in Nevada
• Victoria Aces, an Australian baseball team founded 1934

Geography

• Aces (parish), Candamo, Spain
• Ace, Texas, United States, an unincorporated community
• ACE Basin, collective name for the estuaries of the Ashepoo, Combahee and Edisto Rivers in South Carolina, United States

Arts and entertainment

Music

• Ace (band), a 1970s British rock group
• The Aces (blues band), a 1950s-1970s American group
• The Aces (Jamaican group), a 1965-1980s group, associated with Desmond Dekker
• Ace (musician), guitar player with Skunk Anansie
• Ace (musical), by Robert Taylor and Richard Oberacker
• Ace (Bob Weir album) (1972)
• Ace (Ian Van Dahl album) (2002)
• Aces (album), a 1991 album by Suzy Bogguss
  • "Aces" (song), the title track
• Ace Records (United Kingdom), founded in 1978, named as tribute to the U.S. label
• Ace Records (United States), founded in 1955 by Johnny Vincent in Jackson, Mississippi

Gaming

• ACE (games magazine)
• Ace Online, a flight-based online roleplaying game
• Another Century's Episode, a 2005 video game for PlayStation 2

Publishing

• Ace Comics, a 1937-1959 comic book series
• Ace (Wild Cards), a class of characters in the Wild Cards science fiction universe

Film, TV and anime

• ACE Awards (Award for Cable Excellence), an award for cable television programming, later renamed CableACE Awards
• Anime Contents Expo, a trade fair
• Academy Color Encoding System (ACES), a color image encoding

Military and weaponry

• Flying ace, a military aviator credited with shooting down several enemy aircraft
• Submarine ace, a submarine commander who has sunk 100,000 tons of shipping
• Allied Command Europe, central command of NATO forces in Europe
• United States Army Corps of Engineers
• Aviation combat element, the air arm of the US Marine Air-Ground Task Force
• HMS Ace (P414), a Royal Navy submarine
• Galil ACE, an assault rifle
• M9 Armored Combat Earthmover, a tracked vehicle

Transportation

Automotive

• Ace (1913 automobile), a 1912-1916 British car
• Ace (1920 automobile), a 1920-1922 American car
• AC Ace, a 1953-1963 English car
• Tata Ace, an Indian mini-truck introduced 2005
• Atlantic City Expressway, a toll road

Rail

• Altamont Corridor Express, a California train service
• Atlantic City Express Service, a New York-New Jersey train service
• Atlantic Coast Express, an England train service
• EMD SD70ACe, an American locomotive
• Kintetsu 22600 series, a Japanese train type

Science and technology

Biology, chemistry and medicine

• ACES (buffer), the compound N-(2-Acetamido)-2-aminoethanesulfonic acid, one of Good's buffers
• ACES (nutritional supplement), antioxidant supplements containing vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin E and selenium
• ACE unit, Acute Care of Elderly, a medical unit specific to the care of the elderly
• Angiotensin-converting enzyme, a protein that raises blood pressure
  • ACE inhibitor, a drug that lowers blood pressure
• Acepromazine, an antipsychotic drug used primarily in animals as a sedative and antiemetic
• Acetylcholine esterase, an enzyme that hydrolyzes the neurotransmitter acetylcholine

Computing

• Access Control Entry, part of an access control list
• Ace (editor), a code editor written in JavaScript
• ACE (editor), a desktop-based collaborative editor
• ACE (compression file format), a data-compression format
• ACE (genomic file format)
• ACES (computational chemistry), a software package
• Adaptive Communication Environment, an open-source network-programming framework
• Advanced Computerized Execution System, a stock-trading system
• Advanced Computing Environment, an early 1990s initiative for commodity computing hardware
• Agent-based computational economics
• Automatic Computing Engine, a 1952 British computer
• Automatic Content Extraction, an information-extraction technology-development program
• ASCII Compatible Encoding, a prefix related to internationalized domain names
• Asynchronous Compute Engine, a component defined in AMD's Graphics Core Next for ATI-type products
• Attempto Controlled English, a controlled natural language from the University of Zurich
• Jupiter Ace, a 1980s British computer

Space

• Advanced Common Evolved Stage, a proposed rocket for use on space launch vehicles
• Advanced Composition Explorer, a NASA satellite observing the sun since 1997
• Advanced Crew Escape Suit, an astronaut suit
• Atomic Clock Ensemble in Space, a European Space Agency project
• Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment, a project of the Canadian satellite SCISAT-1

Meteorology

• Accumulated cyclone energy, a measure of tropical cyclone (hurricane) activity

Businesses

• Ace Aircraft Manufacturing Company, an American company founded in 1929
• ACE Aviation Holdings, a Canadian holding company and former parent company of Air Canada
• Ace Books, a science fiction and fantasy publisher founded in 1952
• Ace Cinemas, an Australian cinema chain
• Ace Comics (publishers), a 1940-1956 comic book publisher
• Ace Hardware, an American retailers' cooperative
• ACE Limited, a Swiss insurance company
• Ace Motor Corporation, a 1919-1927 American motorcycle company
• Ace Radio, an Australian radio company
• ACE Team, a Chilean video game company founded in 2002
• Ace Tone, a musical instrument company
• Accelerated Christian Education, an educational products company
• ACeS, a regional satellite-telecommunications company based in Jakarta, Indonesia
• ACES Colombia, a defunct airline
• Aces Studio, a video game company, closed in 2009
• Aircraft Engineering Corporation, an American company founded in 1919, now defunct
• Alternative Chassis Engineering, a UK bus manufacturer, builder of the ACE Cougar

Organizations

• Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals
• Alternatives for Community and Environment, a Boston environmental justice organization
• American Cinema Editors
• American Coaster Enthusiasts
• American College of Epidemiology
• American Copy Editors Society, a professional association
• American Council on Education
• American Council on Exercise, a fitness organization
• Arts Council England
• Association for Comparative Economic Studies, a scholarly organization
• Association for Consciousness Exploration, an American organization
• Association for Consultancy and Engineering, a British business association
• Association of European Film Archives and Cinematheques (French: Association des Cinémathèques Européennes)
• Association of Latin Entertainment Critics (Spanish: Asociación de Cronistas de Espectáculos de Nueva York)
• Assyria Council of Europe, a lobbying organization based in Brussels
• Astronaute Club Européen, a French association promoting space tourism
• Auxiliary Campus Enterprises and Services, an organization at Alfred College, USA

Education

• Alternative Center for Excellence, a school in Danbury, Connecticut, USA
• Aviation Centre of Excellence, the aviation department of Confederation College in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
• Awadh Center of Education, a college in New Delhi, India

As a name

• Ace (name), including people and fictional characters with the given name, surname, ring name or stage name

Other uses

• Attempto Controlled English, a subset of standard English
• Acehnese language, by ISO 639 code
• Lanzarote Airport IATA code (ACE)
• Ace (brand), Latin American brand name for Tide detergent
• Aces (Beanie Baby)
• New York Latin ACE Awards, an award for Latino achievement in entertainment
• ACE Electoral Knowledge Network, a web portal
• ACE (cable system), a submarine communications cable
• Aggregative Contingent Estimation, a program of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency
• Agriculture in Concert with the Environment, a US Environmental Protection Agency program
• American Clean Energy and Security Act, of 2009

See also

• All pages beginning with "Ace"
• All pages beginning with "ACE"
• All pages with titles containing "ace" (includes ACE)
• All pages with titles containing "aces" (includes ACES)