EncyclopediaABC   DEFG   HIJK   LMNO   PQRS   TUVW   XYZOther
 
Home / Encyclopedia / A

ABC

ABC are the first three letters of the English alphabet. It may refer to:

Broadcasting media

American Broadcasting Company, a private US broadcaster
ABC Radio, an American radio network, currently owned by Citadel Broadcasting and formerly owned by the American Broadcasting Company
Australian Broadcasting Corporation, national publicly funded broadcaster of Australia.
ABC Radio and Regional Content
ABC Television
ABC (TV station), the ABC's Canberra-based TV station
ABC (Swedish news programme)
Asahi Broadcasting Corporation, a Japanese commercial television and radio station
Associated Broadcasting Company, a Philippine television network
Associated British Corporation, a former British film and television company

Cars

ABC (1920 automobile), an English car
ABC (1906 automobile), an American car
ABC (1922 automobile), a planned American car
Active Body Control, a type of automobile suspension technology
ABC Motors, an English manufacturer of aircraft, aero engines and cars.

Companies

ABC Stores (Hawaii), a chain of convenience stores
ABC Group, a department store
ABC Learning Centres, an Australian child care business
Agricultural Bank of China, a bank in the People's Republic of China
Aerated Bread Company, a former and once famous British bakery and tea-room chain
Appalachian Brewing Company, an American brewery
Arab Banking Corporation
ABC Cinemas, a UK cinema chain

Computer science

ABC (block cipher), a block cipher algorithm
ABC (computer virus), virus
ABC (programming language)
ABC (stream cipher), a stream cipher algorithm
ABC (Yet Another BitTorrent Client)
ABC, a line of computer models designed by Dataindustrier AB of Sweden
Abc notation, a language for notating music using the ASCII character set
Abstract base class, a programming language concept
Acorn Business Computer
Alcatel Business Communications, a telecommunications protocol
Atanasoff–Berry Computer, an early electronic digital computer

Mathematics

abc conjecture, a concept in number theory
Approximate Bayesian computation, a family of statistical techniques

Medicine and biology

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
Aneurysmal bone cyst, a kind of lesion
ATP-binding cassette transporter, a transmembrane protein

Music

Songs and albums

ABC (album), an album by The Jackson 5
"ABC" (song), a song by The Jackson 5
ABC (Jin album)
"ABC" (Jin song)
"ABC" (Pipettes song)
Alphabet song, or "the abc's", a song used to teach children the alphabet
ABCs (K'naan song)

Groups

ABC (band), a UK New Wave band
Another Bad Creation, an American R&B and rap musical group
Acid Black Cherry, a Japanese Rock band

Record labels

ABC Classics, an Australian record label
ABC Records, an American record label

Other music

O2 ABC Glasgow, a music venue
abc notation, a musical notation language

Organizations and projects

Ornithological

African Bird Club, a British ornithological charity
Australian Bird Count, a project of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union

Political

All Basotho Convention, a political party in Lesotho
Anarchist Black Cross, an anarchist political support organization
Anything But Conservative, also known as the "ABC campaign", 2008 Canadian political campaign during the federal election
Association of British Counties, an advocacy group

Religious

Association of Baptist Churches in Ireland, a Republic of Ireland and a United Kingdom based Christian denomination

Other organizations and projects

African Black Coalition, a University of California student organization
Aircraft Builders Council, a provider of aviation products liability insurance
American Bowling Congress, now part of the United States Bowling Congress
Association of Brazilian Cinematographers (Associação Brasileira de Cinematografia)

Places

ABC nations, a political term referring to Argentina, Brazil and Chile
ABC Islands (Alaska), a term referring to Admiralty Island, Baranof Island, and Chichagof Island
ABC islands (Lesser Antilles), a term referring to Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao
ABC Region, an industrial area outside of São Paulo, Brazil
Academia Británica Cuscatleca (ABC), a school in Santa Tecla, El Salvador

Publications and media organizations

ABC (Audit Bureau of Circulations UK), a circulation-auditing organization in the UK and Ireland
ABC (newspaper), a Spanish newspaper founded in 1903
Alphabet book, or ABC book, any of several children's books depicting the alphabet
America's Best Comics, an imprint of DC Comics
Audit Bureau of Circulations, a circulation-auditing organization in North America

Other uses

ABC Dry Chemical, a fire extinguishing agent
ABC Futebol Clube, a football (soccer) club based in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
ABC strategy for "Abstinence, be faithful, use a condom", a sex education strategy
ABC weapon or Weapon of mass destruction
Activity-based costing, an accounting method
Advanced Booking Charter, a kind of air travel
Aerial bundled cable‎, for power lines
Alcoholic beverage control state, the American system of state regulation of alcoholic beverage sales
Alien big cat or phantom cat, a large feline that has been purported to appear in regions outside its indigenous range
Alphabet
American-born Chinese, people of Chinese ethnicity born in the USA
Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope (1883-1963), British World War II admiral
Automatic Buffer Couplers, railway couplers

Source: Wikipedia

Translation

The word "ABC" occurs as such in the following languages: English, Afrikaans, Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Estonian, Spanish, Esperanto, Basque, French, Galician, Korean, Ido, Indonesian, Italian, Latin, Latvian, Hungarian, Malay, Dutch, Japanese, Norwegian (Bokmål), Norwegian (Nynorsk), Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Albanian, Simple English, Slovak, Slovenian, Finnish, Swedish, Tagalog, Vietnamese, Chinese.

Translation(s) in other languages: Bosnian: ABC (čvor), Croatian: ABC (razdvojba), Hebrew: ABC (פירושונים), Romanian: ABC (dezambiguizare), Serbian: Еј-Би-Си, Thai: เอบีซี.


show options »   

Search inside:










  More articles in: