An ace is a playing card.

Ace(s), ACE(S) and variants may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Awards

  • ACE Awards (Award for Cable Excellence)

Comics

  • Ace Comics, a 1937-1959 comic book series
  • Ace Magazines (comics), a 1940-1956 a comic-book and pulp-magazine publishing company

Music

Groups

  • Ace (band), a 1970s British rock group
  • The Aces (blues band), a 1950s–1970s American group
  • The Aces (indie pop band), a 2010s American group
  • The Aces (Jamaican group), a 1965–1980s group, associated with Desmond Dekker
  • A.C.E (South Korean band), a South Korean boy group
  • The Aces (rock and roll band), a British group formed in the 1950s

Labels

  • Ace Records (United Kingdom)
  • Ace Records (United States)

Albums and songs

  • Ace (Bob Weir album)
  • Ace (Ian Van Dahl album)
  • Aces (album), by Suzy Bogguss
  • "Aces" (song), by Suzy Bogguss
  • Ace (Scooter album)
  • Ace (Taemin EP)

Video games

  • A.C.E. Another Century's Episode, a 2005 video game for the PlayStation 2

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

  • Ace Cinema, cinema in the London Borough of Harrow
  • Ace (film)
  • ACE (games magazine)
  • Ace (musical) 2006
  • Ace (Wild Cards), a class of characters in the Wild Cards science fiction universe

Aviation

  • Ace Aircraft Manufacturing Company
  • ACE Aviation Holdings, former parent company of Air Canada
  • Ace Online, a flight-based online role-playing game
  • ACES Colombia, Aerolíneas Centrales de Colombia, a defunct airline
  • Ace (video game), stylized as ACE, a 1985 flight simulator video game by Cascade Games
  • Aircraft Engineering Corporation, now defunct
  • Aviation Centre of Excellence, a department of Confederation College in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
  • Aviation combat element, the air arm of the US Marines Air-Ground Task Force
  • Edel Ace, a South Korean paraglider design
  • Flying ace, a distinction given to fighter pilots after shooting down a certain number of enemy aircraft in combat
  • IATA airport code of Lanzarote Airport in Canary Islands, Spain

Brands and enterprises

  • Accelerated Christian Education, an educational products company
  • Ace Books, 1952–present, an American publisher of science fiction and fantasy
  • Ace (brand), Latin American brand name for Tide detergent
  • Ace Cinemas, an Australian cinema chain
  • Ace Hardware, an American retailers' cooperative
  • ACE Limited, a Swiss insurance company
  • Ace Radio, an Australian company
  • ACeS, a regional satellite-telecommunications company based in Jakarta, Indonesia
  • Aces Studio, a former video game company
  • ACE Team, a Chilean video game company
  • Ace Tone, a musical instrument company
  • Action Computer Enterprise, a defunct microcomputer company
  • Action Construction Equipment, an Indian company
  • Rockman Ace, a guitar amplifier in the Rockman series

Education

  • Alternative Center for Excellence, a school in Danbury, Connecticut, US
  • American College of Education, an online college based in Indianapolis, Indiana, US
  • American College of Epidemiology
  • American Council on Education
  • Australian College of Educators

Government

  • ACE Electoral Knowledge Network, a web portal
  • Agriculture in Concert with the Environment, a US Environmental Protection Agency program
  • American Clean Energy and Security Act (2009)
  • Automation of Central Excise and Service Tax (ACES), an alternative name for India's Central Excise Mission Mode Project

Military

  • Ace (military)
  • Flying ace, a military aviator credited with shooting down a set number of enemy aircraft
  • Panzer ace, an ahistorical, popular culture term to describe successful German tank commanders
  • ACES Meet, a multilateral air exercise
  • Allied Command Europe, central command of NATO forces in Europe
  • Galil ACE, an assault rifle
  • HMS Ace (P414), a British submarine
  • M9 Armored Combat Earthmover, a tracked vehicle
  • United States Army Corps of Engineers

Organizations

  • Aberdeen Community Energy
  • Advisory Committee of Experts on Slavery, abolitionist organization at the League of Nations
  • Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment
  • Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals
  • Alternatives for Community and Environment, a Boston environmental justice organization
  • American Cinema Editors
  • American Coaster Enthusiasts
  • American Copy Editors Society
  • Animal Charity Evaluators
  • Anime Contents Expo, a trade fair
  • Arts Council England
  • Association for Consciousness Exploration
  • Association for Consultancy and Engineering
  • Association of European Film Archives and Cinematheques (French: Association des Cinémathèques Européennes)
  • Association of Latin Entertainment Critics (Spanish: Asociación de Cronistas de Espectáculos de Nueva York)
  • Assyria Council of Europe, a lobbying organization based in Brussels
  • Astronaute Club Européen, a French space tourism association
  • Auxiliary Campus Enterprises and Services, an organization at Alfred College, US

People and fictional characters

  • Ace (musician), guitarist with Skunk Anansie
  • Ace (name), includes people and fictional characters with the given name, nickname, surname, ring name or stage name
  • Ace (gamer), American professional Halo player
  • Warren Furman, Ace from Gladiators

Places

  • Ace, ancient name of Acre, Israel
  • ACE Basin, the estuaries of the Ashepoo, Combahee and Edisto Rivers in South Carolina, United States
  • Aces (parish), Candamo, Spain
  • Aces (river), a river of Asia
  • Ace, Texas, United States, an unincorporated community

Science and technology

Aerospace

  • Advanced Composition Explorer, a NASA satellite
  • Advanced Crew Escape Suit, an astronaut suit
  • Advanced Cryogenic Evolved Stage, a proposed rocket 2nd stage for ULA
  • Asia Cellular Satellite system, a precursor of the Indonesian satellite company PT Pasifik Satelit Nusantara
  • Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment, a project of the Canadian satellite SCISAT-1
  • Atomic Clock Ensemble in Space, a European Space Agency project

Biology, chemistry, and healthcare

  • ACE inhibitor, a drug that lowers blood pressure
  • Ace K, acesulfame potassium, an artificial sweetener
  • A.C.E. mixture, an historical anesthetic
  • Acepromazine, an antipsychotic drug used primarily in animals
  • ACES (buffer), one of Good's buffers
  • ACES (nutritional supplement), containing vitamins A, C, E and selenium
  • ACE unit (Acute Care of Elderly), a type of hospital facility
  • Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination
  • Adverse childhood experiences
  • Angiotensin-converting enzyme, a central component of the renin–angiotensin system (RAS), which controls blood pressure

Computing

  • Access Control Entry, part of an access control list
  • ACE (compressed file format)
  • Ace (editor), a code editor written in JavaScript
  • ACE (editor), a desktop-based collaborative editor
  • ACE (genomic file format)
  • Acehnese language (ISO 639 code)
  • ACES (computational chemistry), a software package
  • Adaptive Communication Environment, an open-source network-programming framework
  • Advanced Computerized Execution System, a stock-trading system
  • Advanced Computing Environment, an early 1990s initiative for commodity computing hardware
  • Agent-based computational economics
  • Arbitrary code execution
  • ASCII Compatible Encoding, a prefix related to internationalized domain names
  • Asynchronous Compute Engine, a component defined in AMD's Graphics Core Next for ATI-type products
  • Automatic Computing Engine, a 1952 British computer
  • Automatic Content Extraction, an information-extraction technology-development program
  • Jupiter Ace, a 1980s British computer
  • Anti-Cheat Expert, an anti-cheat system developed by Tencent

Other uses in science and technology

  • Academy Color Encoding System (ACES), a proposed color image encoding
  • Accumulated cyclone energy, commonly known as (ACE), metric used by various agencies to express the energy released by a tropical cyclone
  • ACE (cable system), a submarine communications cable
  • ACE experiment, the Antiproton Cell Experiment hosted at CERN
  • Ace (quark model), an obsolete term for quark
  • Aggregative Contingent Estimation, a program of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency
  • Alternating conditional expectations, an algorithm in nonparametric regression.
  • Alternative Chassis Engineering, a UK bus manufacturer, builder of the ACE Cougar
  • Attempto Controlled English, a controlled natural language from the University of Zurich

Sports

Terminology

  • Ace (baseball), a team's best starting pitcher
  • Ace formation, in American football
  • Ace (golf), a hole in one
  • Ace (pickleball), a serve that is not returned by the receiver
  • Ace (tennis), a point won by the server without contest

Teams

  • Alaska Aces (ECHL), an American ice hockey team
  • Alaska Aces (PBA), a Philippine basketball team
  • Alexandria Aces, a defunct American baseball team in Louisiana
  • Asheville Aces, a defunct American ice hockey team
  • Belle Vue Aces, an English motorcycle speedway team
  • Cornwall Aces, a Canadian ice hockey team playing 1993-1996
  • Dallas Aces, the world's first professional bridge team
  • Evansville Purple Aces, a college team of the University of Evansville
  • Las Vegas Aces, an American basketball team
  • Lower Merion High School Aces, the athletic teams at the school in suburban Philadelphia
  • Melbourne Aces, an Australian baseball team founded 2009
  • Northeast League Aces, a Canadian-American baseball team
  • Quebec Aces, a Canadian ice hockey team playing 1928-1971
  • Reno Aces, an American baseball team in Nevada
  • Victoria Aces, an Australian baseball team founded 1934

Transportation

Automotive

  • AC Ace, a 1953-1963 English car
  • Ace Motor Corporation, a 1919–1927 American motorcycle company
  • Ace (1913 automobile), a 1912-1916 British car
  • Ace (1920 automobile), a 1920-1922 American car
  • Atlantic City Expressway, a New Jersey toll road which is the main route between Atlantic City and Philadelphia
  • Tata Ace, an Indian mini-truck introduced 2005

Rail

  • Altamont Corridor Express, a California train service
  • Atlantic City Express Service, a New York-New Jersey train service
  • Atlantic Coast Express, an England train service
  • EMD SD70ACe, an American diesel-electric locomotive commonly referred to as an "Ace"
  • Kintetsu 22600 series "Ace", a Japanese train type
  • IND Eighth Avenue Line, New York City Subway line served by the A, C, and E trains

Other uses

  • Ace, a term for an asexual person
  • Action for Climate Empowerment, a United Nations term

See also

  • (includes ACE)
  • (includes ACES)
  • Ace of aces (disambiguation)
  • Ace1 (disambiguation)
  • Ace 2 (disambiguation)