An ace is a playing card. Ace(s), ACE(S) and variants may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Awards

* ACE Awards (Award for Cable Excellence)

Comics

* ''

Ace Comics ''Ace Comics'' was a comic book series published by David McKay Publications between 1937 and 1949 — starting just before the Golden Age of Comic Books. The title reprinted syndicated newspaper strips owned by King Features Syndicate, followi ...

'', a 1937-1959 comic book series * Ace Magazines (comics), a 1940-1956 a comic-book and pulp-magazine publishing company

Music

Groups

* Ace (band), a 1970s British rock group * The Aces (blues band), a 1950s–1970s American group * The Aces (indie pop band), a 2010s American group * The Aces (Jamaican group), a 1965–1980s group, associated with Desmond Dekker * A.C.E (South Korean band), a South Korean boy group * The Aces (rock and roll band), a British group formed in the 1950s

Labels

* Ace Records (United Kingdom) * Ace Records (United States)

Albums and songs

* ''Ace'' (Bob Weir album) * ''Ace'' (Ian Van Dahl album) * ''Aces'' (album), by Suzy Bogguss ** "Aces" (song), by Suzy Bogguss * ''Ace'' (Scooter album) * ''Ace'' (Taemin EP)

Video games

* ''A.C.E. Another Century's Episode'', a 2005 video game for the PlayStation 2

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

Ace Cinema The Ace Cinema, originally the Grosvenor Cinema and now known as the Zoroastrian Centre, is a Grade II* listed Art Deco Art Deco, short for the French (), is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design that first Art Deco i ...

, cinema in the London Borough of Harrow * ''Ace'' (film) * ''ACE'' (games magazine) * ''Ace'' (musical) 2006 * Ace (''Wild Cards''), a class of characters in the ''Wild Cards'' science fiction universe

Aviation

* Ace Aircraft Manufacturing Company * ACE Aviation Holdings, former parent company of Air Canada * ''

Ace Online ''Ace Online'' or ''AirRivals'' is a free-to-play massively multiplayer online game (MMOG) 3D shooter developed by MasangSoft Inc. and owned by YD Online Corp. History In North America, the game was previously released as ''Space Cowboy Online'' ...

'', a flight-based online role-playing game *

ACES Colombia ACES ( Spanish acronym: ''Aerolíneas Centrales de Colombia'') was an airline with its headquarters in the Torre del Café in Medellín, Colombia and founded on August 30, 1971, by a group of 13 Colombian entrepreneurs, amongst them, most notabl ...

, Aerolíneas Centrales de Colombia, a defunct airline * ''Ace'' (video game), stylized as ''ACE'', a 1985 flight simulator video game by Cascade Games *

Aircraft Engineering Corporation The Aircraft Engineering Corp (Ace) was founded in New York in 1919. The company was sold to Horace Keane of Long Island, New York in 1920. In 1930 it was operating in Oakland, California Oakland is a city in the East Bay region of t ...

, now defunct *

Aviation Centre of Excellence The Aviation Centre of Excellence (ACE) is the aviation department facility for Confederation College. The building consists of two hangars, classrooms, shops, labs, and offices for the three aviation programs available at the School of Aviation ...

, a department of Confederation College in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada *

Aviation combat element In the United States Marine Corps, the aviation combat element or air combat element (ACE) is the aviation component of the Marine Air-Ground Task Force (MAGTF). The ACE is task organized to perform the six functions of Marine Corps aviation in ...

, the air arm of the US Marines Air-Ground Task Force *

Edel Ace The Edel Ace is a South Korean single-place, paraglider that was designed and produced by Edel Paragliders of Gwangju Gwangju (; ), formerly romanized as Kwangju, is South Korea's list of cities in South Korea, sixth-largest metropolis. I ...

, a South Korean paraglider design *

Flying ace A flying ace, fighter ace or air ace is a military aviation, military aviator credited with shooting down a certain minimum number of enemy aircraft during aerial combat; the exact number of aerial victories required to officially qualify as an ...

, a distinction given to fighter pilots after shooting down a certain number of enemy aircraft in combat * IATA airport code of Lanzarote Airport in Canary Islands, Spain

Brands and enterprises

* Accelerated Christian Education, an educational products company *

Ace Books Ace Books is a publisher of science fiction (SF) and fantasy books founded in New York City in 1952 by A. A. Wyn, Aaron A. Wyn. It began as a genre publisher of mystery fiction, mysteries and western (genre), westerns, and soon branched out int ...

, 1952–present, an American publisher of science fiction and fantasy * Ace (brand), Latin American brand name for Tide detergent * Ace Cinemas, an Australian cinema chain *

Ace Hardware Ace Hardware Corporation is an American hardware retailers' cooperative based in Oak Brook, Illinois, United States. It is the largest non-grocery retail cooperative in the United States. Founded on October 25, 1924, as "Ace Stores", the co ...

, an American retailers' cooperative * ACE Limited, a Swiss insurance company * Ace Radio, an Australian company * ACeS, a regional satellite-telecommunications company based in Jakarta, Indonesia * Aces Studio, a former video game company * ACE Team, a Chilean video game company *

Ace Tone Ace Electronic Industries Inc., or Ace Tone, was a manufacturer of electronic musical instruments, including electronic organs, analogue drum machines, and electronic drums, as well as amplifiers and effects pedals. Founded in 1960 by Ikutaro Ka ...

, a musical instrument company * Action Computer Enterprise, a defunct microcomputer company * Action Construction Equipment, an Indian company * Rockman Ace, a guitar amplifier in the Rockman series

Education

* Alternative Center for Excellence, a school in Danbury, Connecticut, US * American College of Education, an online college based in Indianapolis, Indiana, US

Government

ACE Electoral Knowledge Network The ACE Electoral Knowledge Network is a web portal with information on elections designed to meet the needs of people working in the electoral field. Goals The goal of the ACE network is to provide knowledge to people working in the field ele ...

, a web portal * Agriculture in Concert with the Environment, a US Environmental Protection Agency program * American Clean Energy and Security Act (2009) * Automation of Central Excise and Service Tax (ACES), an alternative name for India's Central Excise Mission Mode Project

Military

Ace (military) Ace, when used in the context of military propaganda, denotes a successful military professional who has accumulated a meaningfully measurable statistic such as aircraft shot down, tanks destroyed, tonnage sunk, or a number of successful sniper sh ...

, a military aviator credited with shooting down a set number of enemy aircraft ** Panzer ace, an ahistorical, popular culture term to describe successful German tank commanders * ACES Meet, a multilateral air exercise * Allied Command Europe, central command of NATO forces in Europe * Galil ACE, an assault rifle * HMS ''Ace'' (P414), a British submarine * M9 Armored Combat Earthmover, a tracked vehicle *

United States Army Corps of Engineers The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is the military engineering branch of the United States Army. A direct reporting unit (DRU), it has three primary mission areas: Engineer Regiment, military construction, and civil wo ...

Organizations

* Aberdeen Community Energy * Advisory Committee of Experts on Slavery, abolitionist organization at the League of Nations * Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment * Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals * Alternatives for Community and Environment, a Boston environmental justice organization *

American Cinema Editors Founded in 1950, American Cinema Editors (ACE) is an honorary society of film editing, film editors who are voted in based on the qualities of professional achievements, their education of others, and their dedication to editing. Members use the ...

American Coaster Enthusiasts American Coaster Enthusiasts (ACE) is a non-profit organization focusing on the enjoyment, knowledge, and preservation of roller coasters as well as recognition of some as architectural and engineering landmarks. Dues-paying members receive th ...

* American College of Epidemiology * American Copy Editors Society *

American Council on Education The American Council on Education (ACE) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) U.S. higher education association established in 1918. ACE's members are the leaders of approximately 1,600 accredited, degree-granting colleges and universities and higher educati ...

* Animal Charity Evaluators * Anime Contents Expo, a trade fair *

Arts Council England Arts Council England is an arm's length non-departmental public body of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, Department for Culture, Media and Sport. It is also a registered charity. It was formed in 1994 when the Arts Council o ...

* Association for Comparative Economic Studies * Association for Consciousness Exploration * Association for Consultancy and Engineering * Association of European Film Archives and Cinematheques (French: ''Association des Cinémathèques Européennes'') * Association of Latin Entertainment Critics (Spanish: ''Asociación de Cronistas de Espectáculos de Nueva York'') * Assyria Council of Europe, a lobbying organization based in Brussels * Astronaute Club Européen, a French space tourism association * Australian College of Educators * Auxiliary Campus Enterprises and Services, an organization at Alfred College, US

People and fictional characters

* Ace (musician), guitarist with Skunk Anansie * Ace (name), includes people and fictional characters with the given name, nickname, surname, ring name or stage name * Warren Furman, Ace from ''Gladiators''

Places

* Ace, ancient name of

Acre, Israel Acre ( ), known in Hebrew as Akko (, ) and in Arabic as Akka (, ), is a List of cities in Israel, city in the coastal plain region of the Northern District (Israel), Northern District of Israel. The city occupies a strategic location, sitting ...

* ACE Basin, the estuaries of the Ashepoo, Combahee and Edisto Rivers in South Carolina, United States * Aces (parish), Candamo, Spain * Aces (river), a river of Asia * Ace, Texas, United States, an unincorporated community

Science and technology

Aerospace

* Advanced Composition Explorer, a NASA satellite * Advanced Crew Escape Suit, an astronaut suit * Advanced Cryogenic Evolved Stage, a proposed rocket 2nd stage for ULA * Asia Cellular Satellite system, a precursor of the Indonesian satellite company PT Pasifik Satelit Nusantara * Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment, a project of the Canadian satellite SCISAT-1 * Atomic Clock Ensemble in Space, a European Space Agency project

Biology, chemistry, and healthcare

ACE inhibitor Angiotensin-converting-enzyme inhibitors (ACE inhibitors) are a class of medication used primarily for the treatment of high blood pressure and heart failure. This class of medicine works by causing relaxation of blood vessels as well as a decr ...

, a drug that lowers blood pressure * Ace K, acesulfame potassium, an artificial sweetener * A.C.E. mixture, an historical anesthetic * Acepromazine, an antipsychotic drug used primarily in animals * ACES (buffer), one of Good's buffers *

ACES (nutritional supplement) Antioxidants are compounds that inhibit oxidation, a chemical reaction that can produce free radicals. Autoxidation leads to degradation of organic compounds, including living matter. Antioxidants are frequently added to industrial products, ...

, containing vitamins A, C, E and selenium * ACE unit (Acute Care of Elderly), a type of hospital facility * Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination * Adverse childhood experiences *

Angiotensin-converting enzyme Angiotensin-converting enzyme (), or ACE, is a central component of the renin–angiotensin system (RAS), which controls blood pressure by regulating the volume of fluids in the body. It converts the hormone angiotensin I to the active vasocon ...

, a central component of the renin–angiotensin system (RAS), which controls blood pressure

Computing

* Access Control Entry, part of an access control list *

ACE (compressed file format) In computing, ACE is a proprietary data compression archive file format developed by Marcel Lemke, and later bought by e-merge GmbH. The peak of its popularity was 1999–2001, when it provided slightly better compression rates than RAR, which ...

* Ace (editor), a code editor written in JavaScript * ACE (editor), a desktop-based collaborative editor * ACE (genomic file format) *

Acehnese language Acehnese (Jawi alphabet, Jawi: ) is an Austronesian languages, Austronesian language natively spoken by the Acehnese people in Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia. This language is also spoken by Acehnese descendants in some parts of Malaysia like Yan, Ke ...

(ISO 639 code) * ACES (computational chemistry), a software package * Adaptive Communication Environment, an open-source network-programming framework * Advanced Computerized Execution System, a stock-trading system * Advanced Computing Environment, an early 1990s initiative for commodity computing hardware *

Agent-based computational economics Agent-based computational economics (ACE) is the area of computational economics that studies economic processes, including whole economies, as dynamic systems of interacting agents. As such, it falls in the paradigm of complex adaptive systems. ...

* Arbitrary code execution * ASCII Compatible Encoding, a prefix related to

internationalized domain name An internationalized domain name (IDN) is an Internet domain name that contains at least one label displayed in software applications, in whole or in part, in non-Latin script or alphabet or in the Latin alphabet-based characters with diacrit ...

s * Asynchronous Compute Engine, a component defined in AMD's Graphics Core Next for ATI-type products *

Automatic Computing Engine The Automatic Computing Engine (ACE) was a British early Electronic storage, electronic Serial computer, serial stored-program computer design by Alan Turing. Turing completed the ambitious design in late 1945, having had experience in the yea ...

, a 1952 British computer * Automatic Content Extraction, an information-extraction technology-development program * Jupiter Ace, a 1980s British computer

Other uses in science and technology

* Academy Color Encoding System (ACES), a proposed color image encoding * Accumulated cyclone energy, commonly known as (ACE), metric used by various agencies to express the energy released by a tropical cyclone * ACE (cable system), a submarine communications cable * ACE experiment, the Antiproton Cell Experiment hosted at CERN * Ace (quark model), an obsolete term for quark * Aggregative Contingent Estimation, a program of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency * Alternating conditional expectations, an algorithm in nonparametric regression. * Alternative Chassis Engineering, a UK bus manufacturer, builder of the ACE Cougar * Attempto Controlled English, a controlled natural language from the University of Zurich

Sports

Terminology

Ace (baseball) In baseball, an ace is a starting pitcher considered the best pitcher on a team's starting rotation. Barring injury or exceptional circumstances, a team's ace typically starts on Opening Day. In addition, aces are usually preferred to start ...

, a team's best starting pitcher * Ace formation, in American football * Ace (golf), a hole in one * Ace (pickleball), a serve that is not returned by the receiver * Ace (tennis), a point won by the server without contest

Teams

* Alaska Aces (ECHL), an American ice hockey team *

Alaska Aces (PBA) The Alaska Aces were a professional basketball team in the Philippine Basketball Association since 1986 PBA season, 1986 under the ownership of Alaska Milk Corporation (AMC) and the owner of 14 PBA championships, tied with the Magnolia Hotsho ...

, a Philippine basketball team * Alexandria Aces, a defunct American baseball team in Louisiana * Asheville Aces, a defunct American ice hockey team * Belle Vue Aces, an English motorcycle speedway team * Cornwall Aces, a Canadian ice hockey team playing 1993-1996 * Dallas Aces, the world's first professional bridge team * Evansville Purple Aces, a college team of the University of Evansville * Las Vegas Aces, an American basketball team * Lower Merion High School Aces, the athletic teams at the school in suburban Philadelphia * Melbourne Aces, an Australian baseball team founded 2009 * Northeast League Aces, a Canadian-American baseball team *

Quebec Aces The Quebec Aces, also known in French as Les As de Québec, were an amateur and later a professional men's ice hockey team from Quebec City, Quebec. History The Aces were founded in 1928 by Anglo-Canadian Pulp and Paper Mills, the name Aces stan ...

, a Canadian ice hockey team playing 1928-1971 * Reno Aces, an American baseball team in Nevada *

Victoria Aces The Victoria Aces are an Australian baseball team who compete in the Claxton Shield Baseball Championship. One of the founding teams of the Claxton Shield in 1934, they competed until 1988. Thereafter the Claxton Shield was awarded to the winne ...

, an Australian baseball team founded 1934

Transportation

Automotive

* AC Ace, a 1953-1963 English car * Ace Motor Corporation, a 1919–1927 American motorcycle company * Ace (1913 automobile), a 1912-1916 British car * Ace (1920 automobile), a 1920-1922 American car *

Atlantic City Expressway The Atlantic City Expressway, officially numbered, but Unsigned highway, unsigned, as Route 446 and abbreviated A.C. Expressway, ACE, or ACX, and known locally as the Expressway, is a Controlled-access highway, controlled-access toll roa ...

, a New Jersey toll road which is the main route between Atlantic City and Philadelphia *

Tata Ace The Tata Ace is a model of mini truck manufactured by Tata Motors which was launched in 2005. History In December 2000, Girish Wagh was given a brief by Ravi Kant (Indian executive), Ravi Kant to create a novel lightweight truck line that woul ...

, an Indian mini-truck introduced 2005

Rail

* Altamont Corridor Express, a California train service * Atlantic City Express Service, a New York-New Jersey train service * Atlantic Coast Express, an England train service * EMD SD70ACe, an American diesel-electric locomotive commonly referred to as an "Ace" * Kintetsu 22600 series "Ace", a Japanese train type * IND Eighth Avenue Line, New York City Subway line served by the A, C, and E trains

Other uses

* ''Ace'', a term for an asexual person * Action for Climate Empowerment, a United Nations term