ABC

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

Broadcasting media

American Broadcasting Company, a private US broadcasterAustralian Broadcasting Corporation, national publicly funded broadcaster of AustraliaABC 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 programmeAsahi Broadcasting Corporation, a Japanese commercial television and radio stationAssociated Broadcasting Company, a Philippine television networkAssociated British Corporation, a former British film and television companyABC (newspaper), Spanish daily newspaper

Cars

ABC (1906 automobile), an American carABC (1920 automobile), an English carABC (1922 automobile), a planned American carActive Body Control, a type of automobile suspension technologyABC Motors, an English manufacturer of aircraft, aero engines and cars

Companies

ABC Stores (Hawaii), a chain of convenience storesABC Group, a department storeABC Learning Centres, an Australian child care businessAgricultural Bank of China, a bank in the People's Republic of ChinaAerated Bread Company, a former and once famous British bakery and tea-room chainAppalachian Brewing Company, an American breweryArab Banking CorporationABC Cinemas, a UK cinema chainAnglo Belgian Corporation, diesel engine manufacturerAudit 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 algorithmABC (computer virus), virusABC (programming language), an imperative general-purpose programming language and programming environment developed at CWI, Netherlands by Leo Geurts, Lambert Meertens, and Steven PembertonArtificial Bee Colony Algorithm, a search algorithm used for optimizing multi-variable and multi-modal numerical functionsABC (stream cipher), a stream cipher algorithmABC (Yet Another BitTorrent Client), a free software, open source BitTorrent client based on BitTornadoABC, a line of computer models designed by Dataindustrier AB of SwedenABC notation, a language for notating music using the ASCII character setAbstract base class, a programming language conceptAcorn Business Computer, a series of microcomputers announced at the end of 1983 by the British company Acorn ComputersAlcatel Business Communications, a telecommunications protocolAtanasoff–Berry Computer, an early electronic digital computer

Economics

ABC analysis, an inventory categorization techniqueActivity-based costing, an accounting method

Mathematics

abc conjecture, a concept in number theoryABC formulaApproximate Bayesian computation, a family of statistical techniques

Medicine and biology

Abacavir, an antiretroviral drug used to treat HIV/AidsABC (medicine), a mnemonic for "Airway, Breathing, Circulation"ABC model of flower development, a genetic modelAbortion – breast cancer hypothesis, a posited connection between breast cancer and abortionAneurysmal bone cyst, a kind of lesionATP-binding cassette transporter, a transmembrane proteinABC 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 5ABC (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 alphabetABCs (song), the first official single by rapper K'naan on his album Troubadour

Groups

ABC (band), a UK New Wave bandAnother Bad Creation, an American R&B and rap musical groupAcid Black Cherry, a Japanese Rock bandAlien Beat Club, a Danish pop band

Record labels

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

Other music

O2 ABC Glasgow, a music venueABC notation, a musical notation language

Organizations and projects

Ornithological

African Bird Club, a British ornithological charityAustralian Bird Count, a project of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union

Political

All Basotho Convention, a political party in LesothoAnarchist Black Cross, an anarchist political support organizationAnything But Conservative, or ABC campaign, 2008 Canadian federal election political campaignAssociation of British Counties, an advocacy groupAnti-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 EnglandIndianapolis 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 organizationAircraft Builders Council, a provider of aviation products liability insuranceAmerican Bowling Congress, now part of the United States Bowling Congress

Places

ABC nations, a political term referring to Argentina, Brazil and ChileABC Islands (Alaska), a term referring to Admiralty Island, Baranof Island, and Chichagof IslandABC islands (Lesser Antilles), a term referring to Aruba, Bonaire, and CuraçaoABC Region, an industrial area outside of São Paulo, BrazilAcademia Británica Cuscatleca (ABC), a school in Santa Tecla, El SalvadorAltnabreac railway station (National Rail code), in ScotlandAmerican 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 IrelandABC (newspaper), a Spanish newspaper founded in 1903Alphabet book, or ABC book, any of several children's books depicting the alphabetAmerica's Best Comics, an imprint of DC ComicsAudit Bureau of Circulations (North America), a circulation-auditing organization in North AmericaAudit Bureau of Circulations (India), a circulation-auditing organization in the India

Technology

ABC Dry Chemical, a fire extinguishing agentABC weapon or Weapon of mass destructionAerial bundled cable, for power linesAutomatic Buffer Couplers, railway couplersAlice, 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, BrazilAdvanced Booking Charter, a kind of air travelAir batu campur, also known as ais kacang, a Malaysian dessertAlcoholic beverage control state, the American system of state regulation of alcoholic beverage salesAlien big cat or phantom cat, a large feline that has been purported to appear in regions outside its indigenous rangeAlphabet, a standardized set of lettersAmerican-born Chinese, people of Chinese ethnicity born in the USAAndrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope (1883–1963), nicknamed ABC, a British World War II admiralAsian 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