ABC are the first three letters of the
Latin script
The Latin script, also known as the Roman script, is a writing system based on the letters of the classical Latin alphabet, derived from a form of the Greek alphabet which was in use in the ancient Greek city of Cumae in Magna Graecia. The Gree ...
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ABC or abc may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment and media
Broadcasting
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Aliw Broadcasting Corporation, Philippine broadcast company
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American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American Commercial broadcasting, commercial broadcast Television broadcaster, television and radio Radio network, network that serves as the flagship property of the Disney Entertainment division ...
, a commercial American TV broadcaster
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Disney–ABC Television Group, the former name of the parent organization of ABC
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) is Australia’s principal public service broadcaster. It is funded primarily by grants from the federal government and is administered by a government-appointed board of directors. The ABC is ...
, one of the national publicly funded broadcasters of Australia
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ABC Television (Australian TV network)
ABC Television is the general name for the national television services of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). Until an organisational restructure in 2017/2018, ABC Television was also the name of a division of the ABC. The name was ...
, the national television network of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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ABC TV (Australian TV channel)
ABC TV, formerly known as ABC1, is an Australian national public television network. It is owned and operated by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and is the flagship (broadcasting), flagship ABC Television (Australian TV network), A ...
, the flagship TV station of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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ABC Canberra (TV station), Canberra, and other ABC TV local stations in state capitals
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ABC Australia (Southeast Asian TV channel), an international pay TV channel
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ABC Radio (disambiguation), several radio stations
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Associated Broadcasting Corporation, the former name of TV5 Network, Inc., a Philippine media company
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ABC-5, the former name of TV5, a Philippine free-to-air television network
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''ABC'' (Swedish TV programme), a former Swedish regional news programme
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ABC Weekend TV, a former British television company
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Asahi Broadcasting Corporation
is a certified broadcasting holding company headquartered in Osaka, Japan. Until March 31, 2018, it was a unified radio and television broadcaster serving in the Kansai region.
On April 1, 2018, its radio and television broadcasting divisions ...
, a Japanese commercial television and radio station
* Associated Broadcasting Company, a former name of
Associated Television, a British television company
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African Barter Company, a pan-African barter broadcast syndication company
Music
Albums
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''ABC'' (Jin album), a 2007 album by rapper MC Jin
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''ABC'' (Kreidler album), a 2014 album by Kreidler
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''ABC'' (The Jackson 5 album), a 1970 album by The Jackson 5
Groups
* A.B.C., the former name of Japanese boy band
A.B.C-Z
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ABC (band), an English pop band
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Acid Black Cherry
Acid Black Cherry (abbreviated as ABC) is the solo project of the former lead vocalist of Janne Da Arc, Yasu. The group was formed after Janne Da Arc announced their indefinite hiatus.
Information
Acid Black Cherry is the solo project of Yasun ...
, a Japanese rock band
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Alien Beat Club
Alien Beat Club (often abbreviated as ABC) were a Danish pop/ R&B group, best known as second-place winners on Series 2 of ''The X Factor''. Its members - Kasper Spring Ehlers, Marcel Mark Gbekle, Patricia Namakula Mbabazi and Stephanie Lykkehø ...
, a Danish pop and R&B band
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Another Bad Creation
Another Bad Creation (sometimes called ABC for short) allmusic ((( Another Bad Creation > Overview ))) Retrieved November 7, 2007. Demetrius "Red" (b. September 23, 1979) and Marliss "Mark" (b. April 15, 1982) Pugh, as well as Adrian "G.A." (Gen ...
, an American hip hop and new jack swing group
Labels
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ABC Classics
ABC Music is Australia's largest independent record label. It operates under the ABC Commercial division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. It covers a wide range of music genres, including classical, children’s and adult conte ...
, an Australian record label
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ABC Records
ABC Records was an American record label founded in New York City in 1955. It originated as the main popular music label operated by the Am-Par Record Corporation. Am-Par also created the Impulse! jazz label in 1960. It acquired many labels bef ...
, an American record label
Other music
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ABC song (disambiguation) ABC song or similar terms may refer to:
* The ABC Song, or Alphabet song, a popular alphabet song for children first copyrighted in 1835
* "ABC" (The Jackson 5 song), 1970
* "ABCs" (song), a 2008 song by K'naan
* " ABC-123", a 1993 song by LeVer ...
, several songs
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ABC notation
ABC notation is a shorthand form of musical notation for computers. In basic form it uses the letter notation with –, –, and , to represent the corresponding notes and rests, along with other elements used to place added value on these – ...
, a musical notation language
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O2 ABC Glasgow, a music venue
Periodicals
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''ABC'' (magazine), an Italian magazine published between 1960 and 1977
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''ABC'' (newspaper), a Spanish daily newspaper founded in 1903
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''ABC'' (Monterrey newspaper), a Mexican newspaper founded in 1985
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ABC Color'', a Paraguayan newspaper founded in 1967
Other arts, entertainment and media
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ABC Cinemas, a British cinema chain
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Alphabet book, a type of children's book depicting the alphabet
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America's Best Comics'', an imprint of DC Comics
Aviation
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ABC Motors, an English manufacturer of aircraft, aero engines and cars
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Advance Booking Charter, a type of air travel
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Aircraft Builders Council, a provider of aviation products liability insurance
* IATA airport code for
Albacete Airport in Community of Castilla–La Mancha, Spain
Companies
Financial
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Agricultural Bank of China, a bank in the People's Republic of China
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Arab Banking Corporation, an international bank headquartered in Bahrain
Food and beverage
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ABC (food), an Indonesian-based food division of the H. J. Heinz Company
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Aerated Bread Company, a British bakery and tea-room chain
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Alcoholic Beverage Control (disambiguation), or Alcoholic Beverage Commission, U.S. states' regulation over alcohol sales
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Appalachian Brewing Company, an American brewery
Transport
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ABC Rail Guide'', British railway guide published between 1853 and 2007
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ABC motorcycles, a British motorcycle manufacturer
Other companies
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ABC Learning, a former Australian childcare business
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ABC (Lebanon), a chain of department stores and shopping centers, and operator of fashion boutiques in Lebanon
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ABC Stores, a chain of convenience stores in Hawaii
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Anglo Belgian Corporation, a diesel engine manufacturer
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Audit Bureau of Circulations (disambiguation), publication circulation auditing companies
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Audit Bureau of Circulations (India), a non-profit circulation-auditing organisation
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Audit Bureau of Circulations, former name for the North American non-profit industry organization Alliance for Audited Media
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Audit Bureau of Circulations (UK)
The Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) is a non-profit organisation owned and developed by the media industry. ABC delivers industry-agreed standards for media brand measurement of print publications, digital channels and events. The compan ...
, a non-profit organisation
Economics and law
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ABC analysis, an inventory categorization technique
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Activity-based costing, an accounting method
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Assignment for the benefit of creditors, a concept in bankruptcy law
Organizations
Politics and unions
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Abantu Batho Congress, a South African political party
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ABC (Cuba), Cuban political organization 1931–1952, named after the system for labeling its clandestine cells
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ABC Vancouver, a municipal political party in Vancouver, Canada
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A Better Calgary Party, a municipal political party in Calgary, Canada
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All Basotho Convention, a political party in Lesotho
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Alliance for Barangay Concerns, a political party in the Philippines
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American Bakery and Confectionery Workers' International Union, a predecessor of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers' International Union
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Americans Battling Communism, an anti-communist organization founded in 1947
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Anarchist Black Cross, an anarchist support organization
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Anything But Conservative, a 2008 Canadian political campaign
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Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council
Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council is a local authority that was established on 1 April 2015. It replaced Armagh City and District Council, Banbridge District Council and Craigavon Borough Council. The first elections to the ...
, a local government council in Northern Ireland
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Association of Barangay Captains or Association of Barangay Councils, former names of the Philippine organization League of Barangays
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Association of British Counties, a non-party-political society
Religious
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American Baptist Convention, former name of American Baptist Churches USA
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Association of Baptist Churches in Ireland, in Ireland and the United Kingdom
Sports
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ABC Futebol Clube
ABC Futebol Clube, commonly referred to as ABC, is a Brazilian professional club based in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte founded on 29 June 1915. It competes in the Campeonato Brasileiro Série C, the third tier of Brazilian football, as well as ...
, a football (soccer) club based in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
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American Bowling Congress, which merged in 2005 with other bowling organizations to form the United States Bowling Congress
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Association of Boxing Commissions, a North American not-for-profit professional boxing and mixed martial arts organization
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Indianapolis ABCs, a 1900s Negro league baseball team
Other organizations
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Academia Británica Cuscatleca, a school in Santa Tecla, El Salvador
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Accessible Books Consortium, a subunit of the World Intellectual Property Organization
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Afrikan Black Coalition, a University of California student organization
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American Bird Conservancy, a non-profit membership organization
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Andres Bonifacio College, in Dipolog City, Philippines
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Association of Black Cardiologists, a North American non-profit
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Austin Bat Cave, a creative writing non-profit in Texas
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Australian Bird Count, a project of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union
Places
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ABC countries, Argentina, Brazil, and Chile
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ABC Islands (Alaska), Admiralty Island, Baranof Island, and Chichagof Island
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ABC islands (Leeward Antilles)
The ABC islands is the physical group of Aruba, Aruba, Bonaire, Bonaire, and Curaçao, Curaçao, the three westernmost islands of the Leeward Antilles in the Caribbean Sea. These islands have a shared political history and a status of Dutch unde ...
, Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao
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ABC Region, an industrial area outside of São Paulo, Brazil
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Altnabreac railway station, Scotland, by National Rail code
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Appa Balwant Chowk, area of Pune, India, noted for its bookshops
Science and technology
Biology and medicine
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Abacavir, an antiretroviral drug used to treat HIV/AIDS
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ABC (medicine)
ABC and its variations are initialism mnemonics for essential steps used by both medical professionals and lay persons (such as first aiders) when dealing with a patient. In its original form it stands for ''Airway'', ''Breathing,'' and ''Circul ...
, a mnemonic for "Airway, Breathing, Circulation"
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ABC model of flower development, a genetic model
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Abortion–breast cancer hypothesis, a posited connection between breast cancer and abortion
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Alien big cat, a large feline outside its indigenous range
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Aneurysmal bone cyst
Aneurysmal bone cyst (ABC) is a non-cancerous bone tumor composed of multiple varying sizes of spaces in a bone which are filled with blood. The term is a misnomer, as the lesion is neither an aneurysm nor a cyst. It generally presents with ...
, a kind of lesion
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ATP-binding cassette transporter, a transmembrane protein
Computing
Hardware
* ABC, a line of computers by
Dataindustrier AB
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Acorn Business Computer, a series of microcomputers announced at the end of 1983 by the British company Acorn Computers
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Atanasoff–Berry computer, an early electronic digital computer
Software
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ABC (computer virus), a memory-resident, file-infecting computer virus
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ABC (programming language), a programming language and environment
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ABC (stream cipher), a stream cipher algorithm
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Abstract base class, a programming language concept
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Artificial bee colony algorithm, a search algorithm
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.abc, several file formats
Mathematics
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ABC formula
* Approximate Bayesian computation, a family of statistical techniques
* abc conjecture, ''abc'' conjecture, a concept in number theory
Other science and technology
* ABC dry chemical, a fire extinguishing agent
* ABC weapon (atomic, biological, and chemical), a weapon of mass destruction
* Accelerated bridge construction, a technique for building bridges
* Aerial bundled cable, for power lines
* Airborne Cigar, a British military electronic countermeasure system used during World War II
* Atomic, biological, and chemical defense; now CBRN defense (chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear)
Psychology
* ABC data collection, a descriptive functional behavior assessment method in applied behavior analysis
* Affective-behavioral-cognitive model, an attitude (psychology)#Attitude component model, attitude component model
Transportation
* Active Body Control, a type of automobile suspension technology
* Automatic Buffer Couplers, a type of railway couplers
Cars
* ABC (1906 automobile), an American car by Albert Bledsoe Cole
* ABC (1920 automobile), an English car by ABC Motors
* ABC (1922 automobile), a planned American car
Other uses
* ABC strategy, for "abstinence, be faithful, use a condom", a sex-education strategy
* ABC trial of Crispin Aubrey, John Berry and Duncan Campbell in 1978 in the United Kingdom
* Abecedarium, an inscription consisting of the letters of an alphabet
* ''Air batu campur'', also known as ''ais kacang'', a Malaysian dessert
* American-born Chinese, people of Chinese ethnicity born in the United States
* Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope (1883–1963), nicknamed ABC, British WWII admiral
* Architectural, building and construction, an industry; for example, see Industry Foundation Classes
* Australian-born Chinese, people of Chinese ethnicity born in Australia
See also
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* ABCC (disambiguation)
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