ABS usually refers to: *

Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) (chemical formula (C8H8)''x''·(C4H6)''y''·(C3H3N)''z'' ) is a common thermoplastic polymer. Its glass transition temperature is approximately . ABS is amorphous and therefore has no true melting point. A ...

, a common plastics polymer *

Anti-lock braking system An anti-lock braking system (ABS) is a Automotive safety, safety anti-Skid (automobile), skid Brake, braking system used on aircraft and on land motor vehicle, vehicles, such as cars, motorcycles, trucks, and buses. ABS operates by preventing t ...

, in vehicles Abs usually refers to: *

Rectus abdominis muscle The rectus abdominis muscle, () also known as the "abdominal muscle" or simply better known as the "abs", is a pair of segmented skeletal muscle on the ventral aspect of a person's abdomen. The paired muscle is separated at the midline by a ba ...

("abdominal muscle" or "abs") of humans and some mammals *

Abdominal muscles Abdominal muscles cover the anterior and lateral abdominal region and meet at the anterior midline. These muscles of the anterolateral abdominal wall can be divided into four groups: the external obliques, the internal obliques, the transversus abd ...

(colloquial) ABS or Abs may also refer to:

Arts and media

Broadcasting

* ABS (TV station), Australian Broadcasting Corporation's television station in Adelaide, Australia * ABS network (Arab Broadcasting Services) *

Akita Broadcasting System Akita Broadcasting System, Inc. (ABS, 株式会社秋田放送) is a Japanese broadcaster in Akita Prefecture. Its radio station is affiliated with Japan Radio Network (JRN) and National Radio Network (NRN), and its TV station A television ...

, Japan *

Amalgamated Broadcasting System The Amalgamated Broadcasting System (ABS), sometimes referred to as the Amalgamated Network (or simply Amalgamated) was an ambitious, although unsuccessful, attempt to establish a national "third radio network" in the United States. Its primary pr ...

, former US radio network *

ABS-CBN Corporation ABS-CBN Corporation is a Mass media in the Philippines, Filipino Media conglomerate, media company based in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines. It is the largest entertainment television and film production, Broadcast syndication, progra ...

, a Philippine media and entertainment conglomerate * Alto Broadcasting System, a Philippines company later ABS-CBN *

ABS-CBN ABS-CBN is a leading Philippine media and content company. It serves as the flagship media brand of ABS-CBN Corporation, a subsidiary of Lopez Holdings Corporation. Once the country's largest free-to-air television network, ABS-CBN has since ...

, a Philippine television network *

Antigua Broadcasting Service The Antigua Broadcasting Service (ABS) is the state-controlled broadcaster of Antigua and Barbuda. It operates one radio station and one television channel, the latter being the country's only channel, outside of cable. History Radio arrived to A ...

, state broadcaster of Antigua and Barbuda

Music

A.B.'s AB'S (often written "A.B.'s" in the UK) is a male Japanese rock musical ensemble, band formed in Tokyo in 1982. Their song "Deja Vu (A.B.'s song), Deja Vu" was released in the U.K. and often categorized as instrumental and or jazz funk, but the ...

, a Japanese 1980s instrumental band *

American Bach Soloists The American Bach Soloists (ABS) is an American baroque orchestra based in the San Francisco Bay Area. The orchestra was founded in Belvedere, California, in 1989. Performers share music from Johann Sebastian Bach and his contemporaries during the ...

, chamber music ensemble *

Abz Love Richard Abidin Breen (born 29 June 1979), better known as Abz Love, is an English singer, rapper, and songwriter. Abz is a member of the boy band Five and was also a member of the supergroup Boyz on Block. In 2003, he released his debut so ...

, British singer

Other media

Abs Denham John "Abs" Denham is a fictional character from the BBC medical drama ''Casualty'', played by actor James Redmond. He first appeared in the series eighteen episode "Flash in the Pan", broadcast on 4 October 2003. Abs was introduced at a time p ...

, a fictional character in ''Casualty''

Aviation

* Aerial base station, flying antenna system * IATA airport code for

Abu Simbel Airport Abu Simbel Airport is a regional airport in Abu Simbel, Egypt Egypt ( , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country spanning the Northeast Africa, northeast corner of Africa and Western Asia, southwest corner of Asia via the ...

in Aswan Governorate, Egypt

Organizations

* ABS FC, a football club from Ilorin, Nigeria *

American Bible Society American Bible Society is a U.S.-based Christian nonprofit headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. As the American member organization of United Bible Societies, it supports global Bible translation, production, distribution, literacy, engag ...

American Bladesmith Society The American Bladesmith Society, or ABS, is a non-profit organization composed of knifemakers whose primary function is to promote the techniques of forging steel blades. The ABS was founded by knifemaker William F. Moran, who came up with the ...

American Boy Scouts The American Boy Scouts (ABS) (officially American Boy Scout), later the United States Boy Scouts (officially United States Boy Scout), was an early American Scouting organization formed by William Randolph Hearst in 1910, following on from the f ...

, an early Scouting organization *

American Bureau of Shipping The American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) is an American maritime classification society established in 1862. Its stated mission is to promote the security of life, property, and the natural environment, primarily through the development and verific ...

, a shipping classification society *

Association of Broadcasting Staff The Association of Broadcasting and Allied Staffs (ABS) was a British broadcasting trade union. The organisation was founded in 1945 with the merger of the BBC Staff (Wartime) Association and the Association of BBC Engineers to form the BBC St ...

, a former British broadcasting trade union *

Aston Business School Aston Business School (ABS), is an international business school part of Aston University in Birmingham, England England is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is located on the island of Gre ...

, Birmingham, England, UK *

Australian Bureau of Statistics The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) is an List of Australian Government entities, Australian Government agency that collects and analyses statistics on economic, population, Natural environment, environmental, and social issues to advi ...

Companies

ABS Free Dish ABS is a global satellite operator and has offices in United Arab Emirates, Asia and United States. Operating 5 communication satellites, the satellite fleet currently covers 93% of the world's population including the Americas, Africa, Asia Pa ...

, a Bermuda-based television service *

ABS (satellite operator) ABS is a global satellite operator and has offices in United Arab Emirates, Asia and United States. Operating 5 communication satellites, the satellite fleet currently covers 93% of the world's population including the Americas, Africa, Asia Pa ...

, Amit Somani, Dubai, formerly Asia Broadcast Satellite *

ABS Capital Partners ABS Capital Partners is an American private equity firm focused on investments in software and tech-enabled services businesses across a range of industries, including FinTech, Healthcare, EdTech, eCommerce, cybersecurity, and Smart Cities. Found ...

, Baltimore, Maryland, US *

Alternative Bank Schweiz Alternative Bank Switzerland (ABS) is a sustainability-oriented bank based in Olten, Canton of Solothurn, in Switzerland. Its headquarters are situated in the former building of the Walter Verlag. History In March 2009, eleven ethical banks f ...

, Solothurn, Switzerland *

ABS Global ABS Global, formerly the American Breeders Service, is an artificial insemination company that sells frozen bovine semen. It headquarters are in DeForest, Wisconsin. American Breeders Service was founded in 1941 by John Rockefeller Prentice ...

, formerly American Breeders Service *

ABS Building Society ABS Building Society Limited was an Australian mutual building society with its head office based in Armidale, New South Wales.

, Australia *

Acciaierie Bertoli Safau Danieli Group () is an Italian supplier of equipment and physical plants to the metal industry. The company is based in Buttrio, in the north-east of Italy (Friuli-Venezia Giulia region). It is one of the world leaders in the production of s ...

, an Italian steel mill

Places

* Archbold Biological Station, a research institute in Florida, US *

Abs district Abs district () is a district of the Hajjah Governorate, in north-western Yemen Yemen, officially the Republic of Yemen, is a country in West Asia. Located in South Arabia, southern Arabia, it borders Saudi Arabia to Saudi Arabia–Yemen bo ...

, Hajjah Governorate, Yemen *

Abs (Yemen) Abs (عبس) is a town on the coastal plain of Abs district, Hajjah Governorate, Yemen. In 2005 it had a population of 25,763 inhabitants and was the 24th largest town in Yemen. The city has been heavily affected by the Yemen Civil War. On 11 J ...

, a town

Science and technology

* , in linguistics, glossing abbreviation for

absolutive case In grammar, the absolutive case ( abbreviated ) is the case of nouns in ergative–absolutive languages that would generally be the subjects of intransitive verbs or the objects of transitive verbs in the translational equivalents of nominativ ...

Absolute value In mathematics, the absolute value or modulus of a real number x, is the non-negative value without regard to its sign. Namely, , x, =x if x is a positive number, and , x, =-x if x is negative (in which case negating x makes -x positive), ...

, function in mathematics and computing * Arch Build System, in Arch Linux *

Automated Ball-Strike System The Automated Ball-Strike System (ABS), known for sponsorship reasons as the Automated Ball-Strike System presented by T-Mobile, is a system to automate the interpretation of whether pitches are in the strike zone in baseball games. In 2025, it is ...

, in baseball *

Automatic block signal Automatic block signaling (ABS), spelled automatic block signalling or called track circuit block (TCB ) in the UK, is a railroad communications system that consists of a series of signals that divide a railway line into a series of sections, ...

, in US railroad signalling

Biology and medicine

Amniotic band syndrome Constriction ring syndrome (CRS) is a congenital disorder with unknown cause. Because of the unknown cause there are many different, and sometimes incorrect, names. It is a malformation due to intrauterine bands or rings that produce deep grooves ...

, a congenital disorder * Cis-abienol synthase, an enzyme * Ankaferd BloodStopper, an antihemorrhagic *

Auto-brewery syndrome Auto-brewery syndrome (ABS) (also known as gut fermentation syndrome, endogenous ethanol fermentation or drunkenness disease) is a condition characterized by the fermentation of ingested carbohydrates in the gastrointestinal tract of the body cau ...

, ethanol produced in the digestive system * Aqueous biphasic system, for solvent extraction

Other uses

* Abs (surname), list of people with the name *

Ambonese Malay Ambonese Malay or simply Ambonese is a Malay-based creole language spoken on Ambon Island in the Maluku Islands of Eastern Indonesia. It was first brought by traders from Western Indonesia, then developed when the Dutch Empire colonised the M ...

(ISO 639-3 code), a Malay creole of Indonesia *

Asset-backed security An asset-backed security (ABS) is a Security (finance), security whose income payments, and hence value, are derived from and collateralized (or "backed") by a specified pool of underlying assets. The pool of assets is typically a group of sma ...

, in finance * Advanced British Standard, a proposed British educational qualification * Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing, supplementary to the Convention on Biological Diversity