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), a 2007 album by rapper MC Jin
  • ABC (Kreidler album), a 2014 album 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)

Other uses in arts, media, and entertainment

  • ABC Cinemas, a British cinema chain
  • Alphabet book, a type of children's book depicting the alphabet
  • America's Best Comics, an imprint of DC Comics

Aviation

  • ABC Motors, an English manufacturer of aircraft, aero engines and cars
  • Advance Booking Charter, a type of air travel
  • Albacete Airport, Spain (IATA code: ABC)

Companies

Finance

  • Agricultural Bank of China, a bank in the People's Republic of China
  • Bank ABC, an international bank headquartered in Bahrain

Food and beverage

  • 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

Transport

  • ABC Rail Guide, a British railway guide published between 1853 and 2007
  • ABC motorcycles, a British motorcycle manufacturer

Other companies

  • ABC Learning, a former Australian childcare business
  • 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
  • Anglo Belgian Corporation, a diesel engine manufacturer
  • 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, the former name for the North American non-profit industry organization Alliance for Audited Media
  • Audit Bureau of Circulations (UK), a non-profit organisation
  • ABC, a Finnish gas station chain owned by the S Group

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

Organizations

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 USA
  • Association of Baptist Churches in Ireland, in Ireland and the United Kingdom

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 United States 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

Other organizations

  • Academia Británica Cuscatleca, a school in Santa Tecla, El Salvador
  • Accessible Books Consortium, a subunit of the World Intellectual Property Organization
  • Afrikan Black Coalition, a University of California student organization
  • American Bird Conservancy, a nonprofit membership organization
  • Andres Bonifacio College, Dipolog City, Philippines
  • Association of Black Cardiologists, a North American nonprofit organization
  • Austin Bat Cave, a creative writing nonprofit organization in Texas
  • Australian Bird Count, a project of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union

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
  • Altnabreac railway station, Scotland (National Rail code: ABC)

Science and technology

Biology 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
  • Alien big cat, a large feline outside its indigenous range
  • 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), a stream cipher algorithm
  • Abstract base class, a programming language concept
  • Artificial bee colony algorithm, a search algorithm
  • .abc, several file formats

Mathematics

  • ABC formula, a formula that provides the solutions to a quadratic equation
  • Absorbing boundary condition, an artificial boundary condition for outgoing waves
  • Approximate Bayesian computation, a computational method in Bayesian statistics
  • abc conjecture, a conjecture 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
  • 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
  • Atomic, biological, and chemical defense; now CBRN defense (chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear)

Psychology

  • ABC data collection, a descriptive functional behavior assessment method in applied behavior analysis
  • Affective-behavioral-cognitive model, an attitude component model

Transportation

  • Active Body Control, a type of automobile suspension technology
  • Automatic Buffer Couplers, a type of railway couplers

Cars

  • 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

Other uses

  • ABC strategy (abstinence, be faithful, use a condom), a sex-education strategy
  • ABC trial, of Crispin Aubrey, John Berry, and Duncan Campbell in 1978 in the United Kingdom
  • Air batu campur, also known as ais kacang, a Malaysian dessert
  • Andrew 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 United States
  • 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)