ABC
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ABC are the first three letters in the Latin Alphabet. ABC may also refer to the phrase "as easy as ABC", that is, something that is fundamentally simple and easy.
ABC is a three-letter acronym that may also refer to:
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[edit] Media
[edit] Television
- See also: ABC Television
- American Broadcasting Company
- ABC Television Studio, the television production arm of the company
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation
- ABC News and Current Affairs
- ABC Radio, comprising Local Radio, Radio National, Classic FM, Triple J, ABC NewsRadio, ABC DiG and Radio Australia
- ABC Television, including ABC Kids, Rollercoaster and ABC2
- Asahi Broadcasting Corporation in Osaka, Japan
- Associated Broadcasting Company, a television network in the Philippines
- Associated British Corporation, a former British television company
- ABC (Swedish news programme), the Sveriges Television regional news programme for the Stockholm region in Sweden.
- ABC countries a political term used to refer to Argentina, Brazil and Chile
[edit] Print Media
- America's Best Comics (DC) an imprint of DC Comics
- ABC (newspaper), a Spanish newspaper founded in 1903
- ABC [1] Adventist Book Center
[edit] Other
[edit] Cars
- ABC (1906 automobile), an American car
- ABC (1920 automobile), an English car
- ABC (1922 automobile), a planned (but never built) American car
- ABC (1999 automotive innovation), Active Body Control, introduced in the 1999 Mercedes-Benz CL500 coupé on the IAA'99 (Internationale Automobilausstellung) in Frankfurt.
[edit] Music
- ABC (album), an album by The Jackson 5
- "ABC" (song), a hit song from that album
- ABC (band), a 1980s new wave band
- ABC (Pipettes song)
- ABC Records
- ABC-DEF-GHI, a song sung by Big Bird of Sesame Street
- The Alphabet Song, in which the first words are "ABC"
- ABC Glasgow, a music venue in Glasgow.
- ABC Classics, a record label
[edit] Science
- Advanced Bioimaging Centre, at Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute
- ATP-binding cassette transporter genes, one of the largest families of genes
- Aneurysmal bone cyst, a legion
- abc conjecture, an unproven aspect of number theory.
- The ABC Model of Flower Development, The ABC Model of Flower Development.
[edit] Computer science
- ABC, the Atanasoff Berry Computer, the first electronic digital computing device
- ABC (programming language)
- ABC (cipher), a stream cypher algorithm submitted to the eCRYPT project
- ABC (block cipher), a block cipher algorithm by Dieter Schmidt
- ABC 80, ABC 800 etc.. computers, from Dataindustrier AB of Sweden
- AspectBench Compiler, an open compiler for AspectJ
[edit] Other
- Abstinence, be faithful, use a condom or ABC strategy, a programme favoured by organisations aiming to defeat AIDS in Africa and those fighting the spread of sexually transmitted diseases
- ABC (first aid), Airways, breathing, circulation - a term used in cardiopulmonary resuscitation
- ABC (Yet Another BitTorrent Client)
- The abc conjecture, a mathematical idea in number theory
- ABC Dry Chemical, the most common extinguishing agent in fire extinguishers
- ABC aislands (Alaska): Admiralty Island, Baranof Island, and Chichagof Island
- ABC islands (Lesser Antilles): the islands of Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao
- Abc notation, a musical notation language
- ABC Powers, in diplomacy, Argentina, Brazil and Chile
- ABC store, alcoholic beverage control liquor stores
- ABC Stores, a Hawaii-based convenience store chain
- ABC Warehouse, a Michigan-based appliance and electronics chain.
- ABC weapons, Atomic, Biological, Chemical warfare
- Abortion-breast cancer hypothesis
- Acceptable behaviour contract, part of the British ASBO system
- Activity Based Costing, a financial cost allocation method
- Advanced Booking Charter flights
- Aerated Bread Company, a 19th-20th century British bakery and tea room chain
- African Bird Club
- Alien big cat
- American Bird Conservancy
- American-born Chinese
- American Bowling Congress
- American Brahma Club
- Appalachian Brewing Company, a brewery in Pennsylvania, USA
- Artificial birth control
- Asian Badminton Confederation
- Association of British Counties
- Atanasoff-Berry Computer, the first electronic digital computer
- Australian Bird Count project of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union
- Asian Basketball Confederation, now renamed as FIBA Asia
- All Basotho Convention, Lesotho
- Anarchist Black Cross, a world-wide anarchist political support organization