AAA

AAA, or Triple-A, may be a three-letter acronym or may just mean something that is high-quality, premier, or excellent.

As a proper noun, Aaa is found only in the species name Cavaticovelia aaa (Aaa Water Treader), an insect from Hawaii. As an acronym or abbreviation, the term AAA may refer to:

Economic, political, and social

American Ambulance Association
American Automobile Association or "Triple A"
Australian Automobile Association, a member of the FIA

Economic

American Academy of Actuaries
American Accounting Association
American Angus Association
American Arbitration Association
A credit rating, ex. Triple-A status

Political

Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933, US federal legislation
Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, US federal legislation
Argentine Anticommunist Alliance, an Argentinian far-right death squad of the mid-1970s
Alianza Americana Anticomunista ("American Anticommunist Alliance" in Spanish), a paramilitary far-right Colombian organization, 1978–1979
Alianza Apostólica Anticomunista, in Spain; see 1977 Massacre of Atocha

Social

Adopt-An-Alleyway Youth Empowerment Project, San Francisco, California
American Anthropological Association

Arts

American Abstract Artists, an artist-run organization formed in 1936 to promote and foster public understanding of abstract art
Associated American Artists, an art gallery and art marketing business
TripleA (computer game), a strategy computer game, based on Axis & Allies

Architecture

Alberta Association of Architects, a regulatory body

Literature

A. A. Attanasio, Science fiction writer.
AAA, a Japanese manga by Haruka Fukushima

Language Arts

Accurate, adequate, and appropriate (AAA), words used to describe the quality of information, details, facts, evidence, etc. in nonfiction reading and writing

Music

AAA (band), a Japanese pop band
"AAA", the sixth track on City (1997), by Strapping Young Lad
Adult album alternative, a radio format
Against All Authority (-AAA-), an American DIY ska-punk band
American Accordionists' Association
Angels & Airwaves, an American alternative rock band
AntAcidAudio, an independent record label
The lowest note on a piano (Sub-Contra)

Theatre

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, a British actor

Sports

Triple-A (baseball), the highest level of North American minor league baseball
American Airlines Arena, the Miami Heat's sports stadium
Asistencia Asesoría y Administración, a Mexican wrestling promotion
Amateur Athletic Association of England
Arkansas Activities Association
Montreal AAA, Canada's oldest athletic association

Science and technology

Astronomy

Amateur Achievement Award of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
Amateur Astronomers Association of New York
Association of Autonomous Astronauts

Aviation

Anti-aircraft warfare, also known as Anti-aircraft Artillery or "Triple A"
AAA, IATA airport code of Anaa Airport in French Polynesia
AAA, ICAO airline code of Ansett Australia, an Australian airline
AAA, FAA airport code of Logan County Airport (Illinois)
AAA, Advanced Aircraft Analysis (Aircraft design, stability, and control analysis software)

Chemistry

Acetic anhydride
Arylalkanolamine

Computing

AAA protocol, "Authentication, Authorization and Accounting", an access control, policy enforcement and auditing framework for computing systems
Amiga Advanced Architecture chipset, hardware for a proposed Commodore Amiga computer
ASCII adjust after addition, an Intel BCD opcode
The highest of the three levels of web site accessibility measured by Web Content Accessibility Guidelines

Mathematics

Angle-angle-angle, see Similarity (geometry)

Medicine

AAA proteins (ATPases Associated with various cellular Activities)
Triple A syndrome
Abdominal aortic aneurysm
American Association of Anatomists
American Academy of Audiology

Social science

American Anthropological Association

Technology

AAA battery, a standard size of dry cell
AAA protocol, Computer Security – Authentication, Authorization & Accounting
Analog-analog-analog, a designation for audio. refer analog recording

Other

American Airlines Arena, sports and entertainment venue in Miami, Florida

Translation

The word "AAA" occurs as such in the following languages: English, Czech, German, Spanish, French, Korean, Indonesian, Italian, Dutch, Japanese, Norwegian (Bokmål), Polish, Portuguese, Finnish, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Chinese.

Translation(s) in other languages: Ripuarian: AAA (Watt ėßß datt?), Russian: Ааа.