Australian Sports CommissionAustralian Submarine Corporation, a naval equipment manufacturer in Adelaide, South Australia
Canada
Advertising Standards CanadaAssociation des Scouts du CanadaAirsoft Canada
Indonesia
ASEAN Security Community
Pakistan
Army Service Corps, a corps of Pakistan Army
Republic of China (Taiwan)
Aviation Safety Council, government agency responsible for aviation safety and investigation
Thailand
Assets Examination Committee (Thailand), a now-defunct government agency
United Kingdom
Association of Speakers Clubs, a group of public speaking clubsRoyal Army Service Corps, unit of the British Army, ASC before 1918, RASC afterAvon and Somerset Constabulary, the territorial police force covering Avon and Somerset, England.
United States
Accredited Standards Committee, a subdivision of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI)Aeronautical Systems Center, an Air Force product centerAirflow Sciences Corporation, an engineering consulting company in Livonia, MichiganAmerican Signal Corporation, a Tornado Siren company founded in 1942American Society of CinematographersAmerican Society of CriminologyAmerican Society for Cytotechnology, a professional organization dedicated to the field of cytotechnologyAmerican Southwest Conference, an athletic conferenceAmerican Specialty Cars, an automobile parts manufacturerArmed Services Committee, a committee of the United States Senate overseeing the U.S. MilitaryAtlantic Sun Conference, an athletic conferenceASC Games, or American Softworks Corporation, a computer and video game publishing company
Multi-national organizations
Anti-Spyware Coalition, a group involved with certain computer software technology
Educational institutions
Agnes Scott College, a private liberal arts college in Decatur, GeorgiaAldworth Science College, a secondary school in Basingstoke, Hampshire, EnglandAlfred State College, a secondary school located in Alfred, New YorkAll Saints College (disambiguation), any of several schools of that nameAnnenberg School for Communication (disambiguation), multiple schools of that nameAnglican Schools CommissionAndres Soriano College, located in Surigao del Sur, Philippines
Biology or medicine
Adult stem cell, undifferentiated cells found in the human body that perform repair-related functionsAgitated saline contrast, a bubbled saline solution used in an agitated saline contrast test, a diagnostic heart procedureAnterior subcapsular cataract, a type of clouding of the eyeASC Gene (apoptosis-associated speck-like protein containing a CARD), with the formal name of PYCARD, a protein
Software testing
ASC is an API Sanity Checker
Technology
Active Stability Control, a term used by Mitsubishi to refer to their electronic stability control systemArcade style controller, a device used to play video gamesArc-Suppression Coil, device used in Alternating Current power transmission systems to limit the current flowing to ground at the location of a fault almost to zero by setting up a reactive current to ground that balances the capacitive current to ground flowing from the lines. Also known as Petersen coil.Area Signalling Centre, a term for describing a modern railway signal boxApplication Session Controller, an element of a telecommunications network.asc, a computer filename extension sometimes used for text files, as an abbreviation to ASCII (also used by ASCII Armor in the programs GPG and PGP to convert binary data into ASCII)Automatic Stability Control, a term used by BMW Motorrad to refer to their traction control systemTI Advanced Scientific Computer, a supercomputer design created by Texas Instruments Inc. in 1966Auto SoftCapping, mainframe software for controlling capping in a sub-capacity pricing environmentThe Association for Survey Computing
Others
Advanced supercritical coal, a type of fossil fuel power plantAmbulatory surgery center, a type of health care facilityAmerican Solar Challenge, a solar car race now known as the North American Solar ChallengeAnglo-Saxon Chronicle, a collection of Old English booksASC (dinghy), a 16 foot sailing dinghy in use with the Sea Cadet Corps in the UKAscending order, when sorting; see collationAsia-Pacific Song Contest, song contest based on the Eurovision Song ContestAsian Science Camp, an annual science forum for pre-collegiate and collegiate students of Asia.Ashchurch for Tewkesbury railway station, a railway station in England (abbreviated per the National Rail code)Altered state of consciousnessASC, a British Jazz BandAntwerps schermcentrum (Antwerp Fencing Center), an Antwerp based fencing clubAutism Spectrum ConditionAfter Sozin's Comet, dating used in Avatar: The Last Airbender universe
