ABC, abc, or Abc commonly refers to:
ABC, the first three letters of the Latin script
ABC, abc, or Abc may also refer to:
Arts, media, and entertainment
Broadcasting
American Broadcasting Company, a commercial American TV broadcaster Disney–ABC Television Group, the former name of the parent organization of ABC Australian Broadcasting Corporation, one of the national publicly funded broadcasters of Australia ABC Television (Australian TV network), the national television network of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation ABC TV (Australian TV channel), the flagship TV station of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation ABC Canberra (TV station), Canberra, and other ABC TV local stations in state capitals ABC Australia (Southeast Asian TV channel), an international pay TV channel ABC Radio (disambiguation), several radio stations Aliw Broadcasting Corporation, a Philippine broadcast company Associated Broadcasting Corporation, the former name of TV5 Network, Inc., a Philippine media company ABC-5, the former name of TV5, a Philippine free-to-air television network ABC (Swedish TV programme), a former Swedish regional news programme ABC Weekend TV, a former British television company Asahi Broadcasting Corporation, a Japanese commercial television and radio station Associated Broadcasting Company, a former name of Associated Television, a British television company African Barter Company, a pan-African barter broadcast syndication company TVP ABC, a Polish children's television channel ABC Television-Africa, a defunct Sierra Leone television channel Asociación Boliviana de Canales, a defunct Bolivian television network
Music Albums ABC (Jin album), 2007, by rapper MC Jin ABC (Kreidler album), 2014, by Kreidler ABC (The Jackson 5 album), a 1970 album by The Jackson 5
Groups A.B.C., the former name of Japanese boy band A.B.C-Z ABC (band), an English pop band Acid Black Cherry, a Japanese rock band Active Bird Community, an American indie rock band Alien Beat Club, a Danish pop and R&B band Andrus, Blackwood and Company, a Christian pop and R&B duo Another Bad Creation, an American hip hop and new jack swing group
Labels ABC Classics, an Australian record label ABC Records, an American record label
Other uses in music ABC song (disambiguation), several songs ABC notation, a musical notation language O2 ABC Glasgow, a music venue
Periodicals ABC (magazine), an Italian magazine (1960-1977) ABC (newspaper), a Spanish daily newspaper (founded 1903) ABC (Monterrey newspaper), a Mexican newspaper (founded 1985) ABC Color, a Paraguayan newspaper (founded 1967) Audit Bureau of Circulations, a private organization that provides industry-agreed standards for media brand measurement of print publications and other media outlets Audit Bureau of Circulations (India), a non-profit circulation-auditing organisation Audit Bureau of Circulations (North America), the former name for the North American non-profit industry organization Alliance for Audited Media Audit Bureau of Circulations (UK), a non-profit organisation
Literature
Alphabet book, a type of children's book listing and depicting the letters America's Best Comics, an imprint of DC Comics Accessible Books Consortium, a subunit of the World Intellectual Property Organization Austin Bat Cave, a creative writing nonprofit organization in Texas
Other uses in arts, media, and entertainment ABC Cinemas, a British cinema chain
Economics and law
Commerce
ABC (Lebanon), a chain of department stores and shopping centers, and operator of fashion boutiques in Lebanon ABC Stores, a chain of convenience stores in Hawaii
Finance Agricultural Bank of China, a bank in the People's Republic of China Bank ABC, an international bank headquartered in Bahrain
Other uses in economics and law ABC analysis, an inventory categorization technique Activity-based costing, an accounting method Assignment for the benefit of creditors, a concept in bankruptcy law ABC trial, of Crispin Aubrey, John Berry, and Duncan Campbell in 1978 in the UK
Education
ABC strategy (abstinence, be faithful, use a condom), a sex-education strategy ABC Learning, a former Australian childcare business Academia Británica Cuscatleca, a school in Santa Tecla, El Salvador Afrikan Black Coalition, a University of California student organization Andres Bonifacio College, Dipolog City, Philippines
Food and beverage Air batu campur, also known as ais kacang, a Malaysian dessert ABC (food), an Indonesian-based food division of the H. J. Heinz Company Aerated Bread Company, a British bakery and tea-room chain Alcoholic Beverage Control, or Alcoholic Beverage Commission, a U.S. state's regulatory control over the wholesaling or retailing of some or all categories of alcoholic beverages Appalachian Brewing Company, an American brewery
Places ABC countries, Argentina, Brazil, and Chile ABC Islands (Alaska), Admiralty Island, Baranof Island, and Chichagof Island ABC islands (Leeward Antilles), Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao ABC Region, an industrial area outside of São Paulo, Brazil Appa Balwant Chowk, area of Pune, India, noted for its bookshops
Politics and unions Abantu Batho Congress, a South African political party ABC (Cuba), a Cuban political organization 1931–1952, named after the system for labeling its clandestine cells ABC Vancouver, a municipal political party in Vancouver, Canada A Better Calgary Party, a municipal political party in Calgary, Canada All Basotho Convention, a political party in Lesotho Alliance for Barangay Concerns, a political party in the Philippines American Bakery and Confectionery Workers' International Union, a predecessor of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers' International Union Americans Battling Communism, an anti-communist organization founded in 1947 Anarchist Black Cross, an anarchist support organization Anything But Conservative, a 2008 Canadian political campaign Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council, a local government council in Northern Ireland Association of Barangay Captains, or Association of Barangay Councils, the former names of the Philippine organization now known as the Liga ng mga Barangay Association of British Counties, a non-party-political society
Religious American Baptist Convention, the former name of American Baptist Churches US Association of Baptist Churches in Ireland, in Ireland and the UK
Science and technology Biology and medicine
Psychology ABC data collection, a descriptive functional behavior assessment method in applied behavior analysis Affective-behavioral-cognitive model, an attitude component model
Zoology
Alien big cat, a large feline outside its indigenous range American Bird Conservancy, a nonprofit membership organization Australian Bird Count, a project of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union
Other uses in biology and medicine Association of Black Cardiologists, a North American nonprofit organization 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
Computing Hardware ABC, a line of computers by Dataindustrier AB Acorn Business Computer, a series of microcomputers announced at the end of 1983 by the British company Acorn Computers Atanasoff–Berry computer, an early electronic digital computer
Software ABC (computer virus), a memory-resident, file-infecting computer virus ABC (programming language), a programming language and environment ABC (stream cipher), an algorithm Abstract base class, a programming language concept Artificial bee colony algorithm, a search algorithm .abc, several file formats
Mathematics ABC formula, an expression that provides the solutions to a quadratic equation Absorbing boundary condition, a kind of technique for numerical analysis of outgoing waves Approximate Bayesian computation, a computational method in Bayesian statistics abc conjecture, a statement in number theory
Other science and technology ABC dry chemical, a fire extinguishing agent ABC weapon (atomic, biological, and chemical), a weapon of mass destruction Atomic, biological, and chemical defense; now CBRN defense (chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear) Accelerated bridge construction, a technique for building bridges Aerial bundled cable, for power lines Airborne Cigar, a British military electronic countermeasure system used during World War II
Sports ABC Futebol Clube, a football (soccer) club based in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil American Bowling Congress, merged in 2005 with other bowling organizations to form the US Bowling Congress Association of Boxing Commissions, a North American not-for-profit professional boxing and mixed martial arts organization Indianapolis ABCs, a 1900s Negro league baseball team
Transportation
Aviation Advance Booking Charter, a type of air travel Albacete Airport, Spain (IATA code: ABC)
Cars Active Body Control, a type of automobile suspension technology ABC (1906 automobile), an American car by Albert Bledsoe Cole ABC (1920 automobile), an English car by ABC Motors ABC (1922 automobile), a planned American car
Railway
Automatic Buffer Couplers, a type of railway couplers ABC Rail Guide, a British railway guide published between 1853 and 2007 Altnabreac railway station, Scotland (National Rail code: ABC)
Other uses in transportation ABC Motors, an English manufacturer of aircraft, aero engines and cars Anglo Belgian Corporation, a diesel engine manufacturer ABC, a Finnish gas station chain owned by the ABC motorcycles, a British motorcycle manufacturer
Other uses Andrew Browne Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope (1883–1963), nicknamed ABC, a British WWII admiral Architectural, building and construction, an industry; see Industry Foundation Classes American-born Chinese, people of Chinese ethnicity born in the US Australian-born Chinese, people of Chinese ethnicity born in Australia Abecedarium, an inscription consisting of the letters of an alphabet Ambala Ayta language (ISO 639-3 code: abc)
See also AB (disambiguation) ABCC (disambiguation) ABCD (disambiguation)