ABC

ABC are the first three letters of the Latin script known as the alphabet.

ABC or abc may refer to:

Broadcasting

• ABC Radio (disambiguation)
• American Broadcasting Company, a commercial U.S. broadcaster
  • ABC Radio, the former name of the American radio network Cumulus Media Networks
  • Disney–ABC Television Group, the parent organization of ABC Television Network
• ABC (newspaper), a Spanish daily newspaper
• ABC (Swedish news programme), a regional news programme
• ABC Development Corporation, former name of TV5 Network, Inc., a Philippine television company
• Asahi Broadcasting Corporation, a Japanese commercial television and radio station
• Associated British Corporation, a former British film and television company
• Associated Broadcasting Company, a former name of Associated Television, a British television company
• Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the national publicly funded broadcaster of Australia
  • ABC (Australian TV channel), the flagship TV channel of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Companies

• ABC (food), an Indonesian-based food division of the H. J. Heinz Company, manufactures of sauces and condiments
• ABC Cinemas, a UK cinema chain
• ABC Group, a department store
• ABC Learning Centres, a former Australian childcare business
• ABC Stores (Hawaii), a chain of convenience stores in Hawaii
• Aerated Bread Company, a once-famous British bakery and tea-room chain
• Agricultural Bank of China, a bank in the People's Republic of China
• Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control
• Anglo Belgian Corporation, diesel engine manufacturer
• Appalachian Brewing Company, an American brewery
• Arab Banking Corporation
• Audit Bureau of Circulations, publication circulation auditing companies
  • Audit Bureau of Circulations (India)
  • Audit Bureau of Circulations (North America)
  • Audit Bureau of Circulations (UK)

Computing

• ABC (computer virus)
• ABC (programming language), a programming language and environment
• ABC (stream cipher), a stream cipher algorithm
• ABC (Yet Another BitTorrent Client), a BitTorrent client
• ABC notation, a language for music notation
• Abstract base class, a programming language concept
• Acorn Business Computer, a series of microcomputers announced at the end of 1983 by the British company Acorn Computers
• .abc, ActionScript Byte Code files; see Comparison of application virtual machines
• Alcatel Business Communications, a telecommunications protocol
• Artificial bee colony algorithm, a search algorithm
• Atanasoff–Berry computer, an early electronic digital computer
• ABC, a line of computers by Dataindustrier AB

Economics

• ABC analysis, an inventory categorization technique
• Activity-based costing, an accounting method
• Assignment for the benefit of creditors, a concept in bankruptcy law

Science and medicine

• Abacavir, an antiretroviral drug used to treat HIV/Aids
• ABC (medicine), a mnemonic for "Airway, Breathing, Circulation"
• ABC model of flower development, a genetic model
• ABC strategy for "Abstinence, be faithful, use a condom", a sex-education strategy
• 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

Mathematics

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

Music

Songs and albums

• ABC song (disambiguation)
• "ABC" (Anna Book song), from 1986
• ABC (Jin album), a 2007 album by Chinese-American rapper Jin
  • "ABC" (Jin song), the title song
• ABC (Kreidler album), a 2014 album by the band Kreidler
• ABC (The Jackson 5 album), a 1970 album by The Jackson 5
  • "ABC" (The Jackson 5 song), the title song
• "ABC" (The Pipettes song)
• "ABCs" (song), a single on the album Troubadour by rapper K'naan
• Alphabet song, or "the ABCs"

Groups

• ABC (band), an English new wave band
• A.B.C-Z (A.B.C. till 2008), a Japanese boyband managed by Johnny's and Associates
• Acid Black Cherry, a Japanese Rock band
• Alien Beat Club, a Danish pop band
• Another Bad Creation, an American R&B and rap musical group

Other music

• ABC Classics, an Australian record label
• ABC notation, a musical notation language
• ABC Records, an American record label
• O2 ABC Glasgow, a music venue

Organizations

Ornithology

• American Bird Conservancy
• Australian Bird Count, a project of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union

Politics

• All Basotho Convention, a political party in Lesotho
• Americans Battling Communism, founded 1947
• Anarchist Black Cross, political organization
• Anything But Conservative, 2008 Canadian political campaign
• Association of British Counties, of historic counties

Religion

• American Baptist Convention, former name of American Baptist Churches USA
• Association of Baptist Churches in Ireland, in Ireland and the United Kingdom

Other organizations

• Afrikan 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 Boxing Commissions
• Indianapolis ABCs, a 1900s Negro league baseball team

Places

• ABC Islands (Alaska), Admiralty Island, Baranof Island, and Chichagof Island
• ABC islands (Lesser Antilles), Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao
• ABC nations, Argentina, Brazil, and Chile
• ABC Region, an industrial area outside of São Paulo, Brazil
• Academia Británica Cuscatleca, a school in Santa Tecla, El Salvador
• Altnabreac railway station, Scotland, by National Rail code

Publications and media

• ABC (newspaper), a Spanish newspaper founded in 1903
• ABC (magazine), an Italian magazine published between 1960 and 1977
• Alphabet book, any of several children's books depicting the alphabet
• America's Best Comics, an imprint of DC Comics
• Audit Bureau of Circulations (India), a circulation-auditing organization in India
• Audit Bureau of Circulations (North America), a circulation-auditing organization in North America
• Audit Bureau of Circulations (UK), a circulation-auditing organization in the UK and Ireland
• Diario ABC Color, a Paraguayan newspaper founded in 1967

Technology

• ABC dry chemical, a fire extinguishing agent
• ABC weapon or weapon of mass destruction
• Aerial bundled cable, for power lines

Transport

Cars

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

Others

• ABC motorcycles
• Advance Booking Charter, a type of air travel
• Automatic Buffer Couplers, railway couplers

Other uses

• ABC Futebol Clube, a football (soccer) club based in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
• Air batu campur, also known as ais kacang, a Malaysian dessert
• Alcoholic beverage control, US; ABC board may run ABC stores
• Alien big cat, large feline outside its indigenous range
• Alphabet, and metaphorically the fundamentals of any subject (e.g. "the ABC[s] of finance")
  • The A.B.C., the alphabet song, to learn the alphabet
• Ambala language, a Sambalic language of the Philippines, ISO 639-3 code
• American-born Chinese, people of Chinese ethnicity born in the United States
• Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope, nicknamed ABC, British WWII admiral
• The Archbishop of Canterbury
• Atomic, biological, and chemical, now rendered as chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear