ABA may refer to:

Businesses and organizations

Broadcasting

* Alabama Broadcasters Association, United States *

Asahi Broadcasting Aomori , also known as ABA, is a Japanese broadcast network affiliated with the ANN. It broadcasts to Aomori Prefecture from studio facilities located in Aomori City. 220px, Asahi Broadcasting Aomori Headquarters *125-1, Arakawa aza Shibata, Aomori Ci ...

, Japanese television station * Australian Broadcasting Authority

Education

Académie des Beaux-Arts (Kinshasa) The Académie des Beaux-Arts (ABA) is a school in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. The school is devoted to teaching the arts, and was founded in 1943 as the ''École Saint-Luc à Gombe Matadi'' by Belgian catholic missionary Marc Wal ...

, Democratic Republic of the Congo *

American British Academy The American British Academy (later renamed ABA - An IB World School, or simply ABA), established in September 1987, is a private, non-profit, co-educational international school in Muscat, Oman Muscat ( ar, مَسْقَط, ) is the Capital ( ...

, Oman

Sports

Basketball

* ABA League, Adriatic first-tier basketball league **

ABA League Second Division The ABA League Second Division, also ABA League 2, is the 2nd-tier men's basketball division of the ABA League system. It is run by the ABA League JTD. It is a regional competition between men's professional clubs from six countries: Bosnia and Her ...

, Adriatic second-tier basketball league *

American Basketball Association The American Basketball Association (ABA) was a major men's professional basketball league from 1967 to 1976. The ABA ceased to exist with the ABA–NBA merger, American Basketball Association–National Basketball Association merger in 1976, ...

, defunct professional league (1967–1976) * American Basketball Association (2000–present), semi-professional league * Australian Basketball Association, defunct semi-professional entity

Other sports

Amateur Boxing Association of England England Boxing, known until 2013 as the Amateur Boxing Association of England, is the governing body of amateur boxing clubs in England. There are separate organisations for Scotland and Wales with boxing in Northern Ireland being organised on a ...

, former name of England Boxing *

American Bandy Association Bandy in the United States is played mostly in Minnesota. Bandy is a team sport played on ice. The United States national bandy team has taken part in the Bandy World Championships since the 1985 tournament. It also plays friendlies against Cana ...

American Bicycle Association The American Bicycle Association (ABA) was a US-based BMX sports governing body in Gilbert, Arizona. In 2011, the ABA merged with the former National Bicycle League and became the current USA BMX. The organization was founded by Merl Mennenga ...

* American Bridge Association

Other businesses and organizations

AB Aerotransport AB Aerotransport (ABA) was a Swedish government-owned airline which operated during the first half of the 20th century and was merged into what would become the SAS Group. ABA was established on 27 March 1924 under the name Aktiebolaget Aerotr ...

, former Scandinavian airline * ABA Chemicals, a Chinese chemical manufacturing company * ABA Games, a Japanese creator of freeware games *

Alabama Baptist Association The Alabama Baptist Association (ABA) was an association of Baptist churches founded on 15 December 1819 by four churches: the Antioch Baptist Church (of Montgomery County, Alabama) and the Baptist churches of Old Elam (also named Elim), Bethel, an ...

, United States * American Bankers Association * American Bandmasters Association * American Baptist Association, a Baptist denomination predominant in the American South *

American Bar Association The American Bar Association (ABA) is a voluntary bar association of lawyers and law students, which is not specific to any jurisdiction in the United States. Founded in 1878, the ABA's most important stated activities are the setting of acad ...

, an association of lawyers *

American Bell Association International The American Bell Association International, Inc. (ABA) is a nonprofit organization devoted to the collection, preservation, restoration, and research of bells in which members can attend regional chapter events and an annual national convention.Spr ...

American Beverage Association The American Beverage Association (ABA) is a government lobbying group that represents the beverage industry in the United States. Its members include producers and bottlers of soft drinks, such as Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, bottled water, and other ...

, beverage industry lobby organization * American Birding Association *

American Booksellers Association The American Booksellers Association (ABA) is a non-profit trade association founded in 1900 that promotes independent bookstores in the United States. ABA's core members are key participants in their communities' local economy and culture, and t ...

American Bus Association The American Bus Association (ABA) is a trade association for motorcoach operators and tour companies in the United States and Canada. Its membership consists of about 1,000 companies that operate buses or bus-based tours, about 2,800 organizati ...

Antiquarian Booksellers Association The Antiquarian Booksellers' Association (ABA) is the senior trade body in the British Isles for dealers in antiquarian and rare books, manuscripts and allied materials. The ABA organises a number of book fairs every year including its flagship f ...

, a trade body in the British Isles *

Association of Black Anthropologists The Association of Black Anthropologists (ABA) founded in 1975, is an American organization which brings together Black anthropologists with a view to highlighting the history of African Americans, especially in regard to exploitation, oppressio ...

Australian Banking Association The Australian Banking Association (ABA), formerly the ''Australian Bankers' Association'', is the trade association for the Australian banking industry. The ABA was founded in 1985 and is based in Sydney, New South Wales. The ABA represents twe ...

Australian Blue Asbestos Australian Blue Asbestos Pty. Ltd. (ABA) was a company founded by Lang Hancock, operated between the years (1938–1966) responsible for the mining, bagging and distribution of blue asbestos or crocidolite, in Wittenoom, in northern Western Austral ...

, mining, bagging and blue asbestos distribution company *

Australian Breastfeeding Association The Australian Breastfeeding Association (ABA) is an Australian organisation interested in the promotion of breastfeeding and protection of nursing mothers. Members of ABA include nursing mothers and their partners as well as health professionals ...

Music

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Altbachisches Archiv , also (ABA, old-Bachian archive), is a collection of 17th-century vocal music, most of which was written by members of the Bach family. History Johann Ambrosius Bach, Johann Sebastian's father, supposedly started to collect compositions by his r ...

'', collection of 17th-century music, most written by the Bach family * A-B-A, the

ternary form Ternary form, sometimes called song form, is a three-part musical form consisting of an opening section (A), a following section (B) and then a repetition of the first section (A). It is usually schematized as A–B–A. Prominent examples includ ...

in music

Transport

* ABA, the IATA code for

Abakan International Airport Abakan International Airport (russian: Международный Аэропорт Абакан, ) is an airport located in Abakan, Republic of Khakassia, Russia. The airport is located to the north of the city not far from the city limits. City ...

, Khakassia, Russia * ABA, the National Rail code for

Aberdare railway station , symbol_location = gb , symbol = rail , image = Aberdare railway station (geograph 5510248).jpg , borough = Aberdare, Rhondda Cynon Taf , country = Wales , coordinates = , gr ...

, Wales, UK

Other uses

ABA problem In multithreaded computing, the ABA problem occurs during synchronization, when a location is read twice, has the same value for both reads, and "value is the same" is used to indicate "nothing has changed". However, another thread can execute be ...

, a multithreading computing anomaly * ABA routing transit number, a bank code used in the United States *

A.B.A This is a list of characters from the ''Guilty Gear'' fighting game series. Creation and influences Daisuke Ishiwatari has cited Kazushi Hagiwara's manga ''Bastard!!'', and the fighting game '' Street Fighter II'' as influence to the ''Guilty ...

, a character in the fighting game series ''Guilty Gear'' * Abé language of Ivory Coast *

Abscisic acid Abscisic acid (ABA) is a plant hormone. ABA functions in many plant developmental processes, including seed and bud dormancy, the control of organ size and stomatal closure. It is especially important for plants in the response to environmental s ...

, a plant hormone * Accredited Business Accountant, trademarked credential offered by the Accreditation Council for Accountancy and Taxation *

Applied behavior analysis Applied behavior analysis (ABA), also called behavioral engineering, is a psychological intervention that applies empirical approaches based upon the principles of respondent and operant conditioning to change behavior of social significance. ...

, a type of one-to-one behavioural therapy *

Architectural Barriers Act of 1968 The Architectural Barriers Act of 1968 ("ABA", , codified at et seq.) is an Act of Congress, enacted by President Lyndon B. Johnson. The ABA requires that facilities designed, built, altered, or leased with funds supplied by the United States Fed ...

, act of the US Congress