ASC may refer to:

Educational institutions

  • Anglican Schools Commission, Australia
  • Andres Soriano Colleges of Bislig, located in Surigao del Sur, Philippines
  • Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Georgia
  • Alfred State College, Alfred, New York

Organizations

Australia

  • Australian Securities Commission, now the Australian Securities & Investments Commission
  • Australian Singing Competition
  • Australian Sports Commission
  • ASC Pty Ltd (former Australian Submarine Corporation), a naval shipbuilder
  • BAE Systems Maritime Australia, formerly ASC Shipbuilding, established by ASC Pty Ltd

Canada

  • Advertising Standards Canada
  • Agence spatiale canadienne, the Canadian Space Agency
  • Alberta Securities Commission
  • Association des Scouts du Canada

United Kingdom

  • Amalgamated Society of Core Makers of Great Britain and Ireland, former trade union
  • Army Service Corps, the name of the Royal Army Service Corps between 1870 and 1918
  • Association of Speakers Clubs, a group of public speaking clubs

United States

  • Accounting Standards Codification, of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
  • Accredited Standards Committee of the American National Standards Institute
  • ASC X9, standards for the financial services industry
  • ASC X12, standards for business electronic data interchange
  • Aeronautical Systems Center, inactivated Air Force product center
  • Airflow Sciences Corporation, Livonia, Michigan
  • American Shakespeare Center, a theatre company in Staunton, Virginia
  • American Signal Corporation, a warning siren company founded in 1942
  • American Society for Cybernetics
  • American Society of Cinematographers, members use postnominal letters ASC
  • American Society of Criminology
  • American Society of Cytopathology
  • American Southwest Conference, an athletic conference
  • American Specialty Cars, former automobile parts manufacturer
  • United States Army Sustainment Command

International

  • Post-nominal letters of Adorers of the Blood of Christ
  • Aquaculture Stewardship Council
  • Asian Socialist Conference

Elsewhere

  • Indian Army Service Corps, India
  • Afrika-Studiecentrum Leiden (African Studies Centre), Netherlands
  • Army Service Corps, a unit of the Pakistan Army
  • Aviation Safety Council (now the Taiwan Transportation Safety Board), Taiwan
  • Assets Scrutiny Committee, former government agency

Science and technology

  • Abstract simplicial complex
  • Apoptosis-associated speck-like protein containing a CARD, a protein encoded by the PYCARD gene
  • Application Session Controller, an element of a telecommunications network
  • Arnhem Space Centre, a spaceport in northern Australia
  • Autism spectrum condition, a form of neurodivergence

Automotive

  • Active Stability Control, Mitsubishi Electronic Stability Control system
  • Automatic Stability Control, BMW traction control system, used in motorcycles such as BMW R1200RT

Computing

  • Additional Sense Code, extension to a Key Code Qualifier error-code returned by a SCSI device
  • <code><nowiki>.</nowiki>asc</code>, computer filename extension used for some ASCII text files, and Server-Side ActionScript
  • Asynchronous serial communication
  • Asynchronous serial controller, alternate name for universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter
  • Australia Singapore Cable, submarine telecommunications cable
  • TI Advanced Scientific Computer, 1966 supercomputer architecture

Other uses

  • Aberdeen Science Centre, a science museum in Scotland
  • Admiralty Sailing Craft, a UK sailing dinghy
  • After School Club, South Korean TV show
  • Al Ahly SC, a sports club based in Cairo, Egypt
  • Altered state of consciousness
  • Altered States of Consciousness Rating Scale
  • Ambulatory surgery center, a type of healthcare facility
  • American Solar Challenge, solar car race
  • American Song Contest, an American music competition
  • Ashchurch for Tewkesbury railway station (UK National Rail code)
  • Asian Science Camp
  • ASC (musician), a musician producing electronic music

See also

  • ASK (disambiguation)<!--possible misspelling-->