ABC
Abbreviation
ABC is an abbreviation with many meanings:- The Latin alphabet, of which A, B, and C are the first three letters.
- Mass media
- * American Broadcasting Company, a radio and television network in the United States.
- * Australian Broadcasting Corporation, a radio and television network in Australia.
- * Associated British Corporation, a former British television company.
- * Asahi Broadcasting Corporation, a radio and television broadcaster in Japan
- * Audit Bureau of Circulations, organization for North American advertisers and publications
- Government
- * Alcoholic beverage commission and in ABC store, a liquor store run by this commission
- * ABC weapons: Atomic, Biological, and Chemical warfare. This abbreviation has largely been superceded by NBC, where the "N" stands for "nuclear", or WMD.
- Uncategorized businesses
- * Atlanta Bread Company
- * Atlanta, Birmingham & Coast Railroad (also as AB&C)
- Computing
- * The Atanasoff Berry Computer, completed in 1942; also in ABC Computer
- Music
- * ABC is a musical notation language, used especially in ASCII files because of its simplicity.
- Health care
- * in first aid, ABC is a mnemotecnic acronym for airway, breath, circulation, the three vital functions that must be checked and maintained for a casualty during CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation); it was invented by Peter Safar.
- People
- * Archbishop of Canterbury
- * Andrew Browne Cunningham, British admiral
- * American-born Chinese
- * Australian-Born-Chinese.
- Places
- * Atlantic Baptist College, the former name of Atlantic Baptist University in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada.
- * ABC islands: Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao.
- * Adventist Book Center
- Biology
- * alien big cat is used in cryptozoology.
- * ATP Binding Cassette, a protein motif characteristic of a family of transporter proteins.
- Slang
- * Already Been Chewed, for used chewing gum
- Miscellaneous
- * AAR reporting mark ABC)
- Anarchist Black Cross
- Aural brevity code
- Activity based costing
Part of name
ABC is also the part of many proper names without having a specific meaning as an acronym.- Mass media
- * Diario ABC, a newspaper in Spain.
- Music
- * ABC, the name of an early 1980s new wave music band fronted by Martin Fry.
- * ABC Records is a recording label.
- * ABC is a landmark album by The Jackson Five, including future pop star Michael Jackson.
- Automobile markets
- * ABC (1906 automobile), an American carmarket
- * ABC (1920 automobile), an English carmarket
- * ABC (1922 automobile), a planned (but never built) American carmarket
- * ABC (B), a Belgian carmarket
- Uncategorized businesses
- * ABC Motors
- Computing
- * ABC ALGOL is an extension of Algol 60.
- * ABC 80 was a home computer around 1980.
- * ABC programming language, an imperative programming language developed at CWI (Amsterdam, the Netherlands). It served as inspiration for the Python programming language.
- Mathematics
- * Abc Conjecture, a conjecture in number theory
- Literature
- * The ABC Murders - a novel by Agatha Christie
- Government
- * The ABC Trial - an official secrets trial in the UK