ABC are the first three letters of the Latin script known as the

alphabet An alphabet is a standardized set of basic written graphemes (called letters) that represent the phonemes of certain spoken languages. Not all writing systems represent language in this way; in a syllabary, each character represents a s ...

. ABC or abc may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Broadcasting

American Broadcasting Company The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an Television in the United States, American Commercial broadcasting, commercial broadcast television network. It is the flagship property of the Disney General Entertainment Content#Current assets, ...

, a commercial U.S. TV broadcaster ** Disney–ABC Television Group, the former name of the parent organization of ABC *

Australian Broadcasting Corporation The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) is the national broadcaster of Australia. It is principally funded by direct grants from the Australian Government and is administered by a government-appointed board. The ABC is a publicly-own ...

, one of the national publicly funded broadcasters of Australia ** ABC Television (Australian TV network), the national television network of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation *** ABC TV (Australian TV channel), the flagship TV station of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation *** ABC Canberra (TV station), Canberra, and other ABC TV local stations in state capitals *** ABC Australia (Southeast Asian TV channel), an international pay TV channel * ABC Radio (disambiguation), various radio stations including the American and Australian ABCs * Associated Broadcasting Corporation, one of the former names of TV5 Network, Inc., a Philippine television company **

ABC-5 TV5 (also known as 5 and formerly known as ABC) is a Philippine free-to-air television network based in Mandaluyong, with its alternate studios located in Novaliches, Quezon City. It is the flagship property of TV5 Network, Inc. with Cignal TV ...

, the former name of TV5 (Philippines), a Philippine free-to-air network * ''ABC'' (Swedish TV programme), a former Swedish regional news programme * ABC Weekend TV, a former British television company * Asahi Broadcasting Corporation, a Japanese commercial television and radio station * Associated Broadcasting Company, a former name of Associated Television, a British television company

Music

Albums

* ''ABC'' (Jin album), a 2007 album by rapper MC Jin * ''ABC'' (Kreidler album), a 2014 album by Kreidler * ''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 * ABC (band), an English pop band * Acid Black Cherry, a Japanese rock band *

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 Lykkehøj ...

, a Danish pop and R&B band * Another Bad Creation, an American hip hop and new jack swing group

Labels

* ABC Classics, an Australian record label *

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 uses in music

ABC song (disambiguation) ABC song or similar terms may refer to: * Alphabet song, any song intended to help teach an alphabet, including "The A.B.C.", a popular alphabet song for children first copyrighted in 1835 * "ABC" (The Jackson 5 song), 1970 * "ABC", a song by Jin ...

, various songs with this title * ABC notation, a musical notation language * O₂ ABC Glasgow, a music venue

Periodicals

* ''ABC'' (magazine), an Italian magazine published between 1960 and 1977 * ''ABC'' (newspaper), a Spanish daily newspaper founded in 1903 * ''ABC'' (Monterrey newspaper), a Mexican newspaper founded in 1985 * ''

ABC Color ''ABC Color'' is a major Paraguayan newspaper with offices in the city of Asunción. The editorial that publishes the newspaper (Azeta) was founded August 8, 1967 by Aldo Zuccolillo. It is one of the most widely read daily newspapers in Paragu ...

'', a Paraguayan newspaper founded in 1967

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

* ABC Cinemas, a UK cinema chain *

Alphabet book An alphabet book is a type of children's book giving basic instruction in an alphabet. Intended for young children, alphabet books commonly use pictures, simple language and alliteration to aid language learning. Alphabet books are published ...

, any of several children's books depicting the alphabet * '' America's Best Comics'', an imprint of DC Comics

Brands and enterprises

Companies

Financial

* Agricultural Bank of China, a bank in the People's Republic of China * Arab Banking Corporation, an international bank headquartered in Bahrain

Food and beverage

* ABC (food), an Indonesian-based food division of the H. J. Heinz Company * Aerated Bread Company, a British bakery and tea-room chain * Appalachian Brewing Company, an American brewery

Transport

* ABC (1906 automobile), an American car * ABC (1920 automobile), an English car *

ABC (1922 automobile) The ABC was a light car planned in 1922 to sell for $300 but which never went into production. See also *ABC (1906 automobile). *List of defunct automobile manufacturers This is a list of defunct automobile manufacturers of the United State ...

, a planned American car * ABC Motors, an English manufacturer of aircraft, aero engines and cars * '' ABC Rail Guide'', British railway guide published between 1853 and 2007 * ABC motorcycles, a British motorcycle manufacturer

Other companies

* ABC Learning, a former Australian childcare business * ABC Stores, a chain of convenience stores in Hawaii *

Aircraft Builders Council The Aircraft Builders Council (ABC) was founded in 1955 at a time when aviation products liability coverage was in its infancy and not readily available on the open markets. A group of aviation manufacturing companies, brokers and insurers develop ...

, a provider of aviation products liability insurance * Anglo Belgian Corporation, a diesel engine manufacturer * Audit Bureau of Circulations (disambiguation), publication circulation auditing companies ** Audit Bureau of Circulations (India), a non-profit circulation-auditing organisation ** Audit Bureau of Circulations, former name for the North American non-profit industry organization Alliance for Audited Media ** Audit Bureau of Circulations (UK), a non-profit organisation

Mathematics

* ABC formula * Approximate Bayesian computation, a family of statistical techniques * ''abc'' conjecture, a concept in number theory

Organizations

Political organizations and unions

ABC (Cuba) The ABC was a Cuban political organization founded in 1931 in opposition to the government of Gerardo Machado. It used a hierarchy of clandestine cells, in which each member would oversee a cell on the next level. The first cell was labeled A; ...

, Cuban political organization 1931–1952, named after the system for labeling its clandestine cells *

All Basotho Convention The All Basotho Convention (ABC; ) is a political party in Lesotho. The party was formed in October 2006 and founded by Tom Thabane, a former minister in the Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) led by the government of Prime Minister Pakalith ...

, a political party in Lesotho * Alliance for Barangay Concerns, a political party in the Philippines * American Bakery and Confectionery Workers' International Union, a predecessor to the contemporary Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers' International Union * Americans Battling Communism, an anti-communist organization founded in 1947 * Anarchist Black Cross, an anarchist support organization * Anything But Conservative, a 2008 Canadian political campaign * Association of Barangay Captains, former name for an organization of all the barangays (villages) in the Philippines, now known as the League of Barangays in the Philippines * Association of British Counties, a non-party-political society

Religious organizations

* American Baptist Convention, former name of American Baptist Churches USA * Association of Baptist Churches in Ireland, in Ireland and the United Kingdom

Sports organizations

* ABC Futebol Clube, a football (soccer) club based in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil * American Bowling Congress, which merged in 2005 with other bowling organizations to form the United States Bowling Congress * Association of Boxing Commissions, a North American not-for-profit professional boxing and mixed martial arts organization * Indianapolis ABCs, a 1900s Negro league baseball team

Other organizations

Academia Británica Cuscatleca The Academia Británica Cuscatleca (ABC) is an established and highly regarded international bilingual school in El Salvador. It is a community of some 1300 students and is fully accredited by Council of International Schools (CIS), the Interna ...

, a school in Santa Tecla, El Salvador * Accessible Books Consortium, a subunit of the World Intellectual Property Organization *

Afrikan Black Coalition The Afrikan Black Coalition (ABC) are a group of student organizations for black students at University of California schools, formed to unite and solve issues concerning academic policy, campus social atmosphere, and matriculation of black stu ...

, a University of California student organization * American Bird Conservancy, a non-profit membership organization * Association of Black Cardiologists, a North American non-profit * Australian Bird Count, a project of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union * Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority, public safety agency

Places

* ABC countries, Argentina, Brazil, and Chile * ABC Islands (Alaska), Admiralty Island, Baranof Island, and Chichagof Island * ABC islands (Leeward Antilles), Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao * ABC Region, an industrial area outside of São Paulo, Brazil * Albacete Airport, a joint civilian/military airport serving Albacete, Spain (IATA: ABC) * Altnabreac railway station, Scotland, by National Rail code * Appa Balwant Chowk, area of Pune, India, noted for its bookshops

Science and technology

Biology and medicine

* Abacavir, an antiretroviral drug used to treat HIV/AIDS * ABC (medicine), a mnemonic for "Airway, Breathing, Circulation" *

ABC model of flower development The ABC model of flower development is a scientific model of the process by which flowering plants produce a pattern of gene expression in meristems that leads to the appearance of an organ oriented towards sexual reproduction, a flower. There a ...

, a genetic model * Abortion–breast cancer hypothesis, a posited connection between breast cancer and abortion *

Alien Big Cat Phantom cats, also known as Alien Big Cats (ABCs), are large felids such as leopards, jaguars and cougars which allegedly appear in regions outside their indigenous range. Sightings, tracks and predation have been reported in a number of countrie ...

, large feline outside its indigenous range * Aneurysmal bone cyst, a kind of lesion * ATP-binding cassette transporter, a transmembrane protein

Computing

Hardware

* ABC, a line of computers by Dataindustrier AB * Acorn Business Computer, a series of microcomputers announced at the end of 1983 by the British company Acorn Computers * Atanasoff–Berry computer, an early electronic digital computer

File formats

Other uses in computing

ABC (computer virus) ABC, discovered in October 1992, is a memory-resident, file-infecting computer virus which infects EXE files and may alter both COM and EXE files. ABC activates on the 13th day of every month. Upon infection, ABC becomes memory-resident at the ...

, a memory-resident, file-infecting computer virus * ABC (programming language), a programming language and environment * ABC (stream cipher), a stream cipher algorithm * Abstract base class, a programming language concept * Artificial bee colony algorithm, a search algorithm

Economics

* ABC analysis, an inventory categorization technique * Activity-based costing, an accounting method * Assignment for the benefit of creditors, a concept in bankruptcy law

Psychology

*ABC data collection, a descriptive functional behavior assessment method in applied behavior analysis * Affective-behavioral-cognitive model, an attitude component model

Transportation

* Active Body Control, a type of automobile suspension technology * Automatic Buffer Couplers, a type of railway couplers

Other uses in science and technology

* ABC dry chemical, a fire extinguishing agent *

ABC weapon A weapon of mass destruction (WMD) is a chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, or any other weapon that can kill and bring significant harm to numerous individuals or cause great damage to artificial structures (e.g., buildings), natural ...

, 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 (WWII) to jam Luftwaffe night fighter communications * Atomic, biological, and chemical defense, now rendered as chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear defense

Other uses

* ABC strategy, for "abstinence, be faithful, use a condom", a sex-education strategy *

ABC trial The ABC Trial was a United Kingdom trial conducted in the 1970s, of three men for offences under section 2 (wrongful communication of information) and (as dropped during the trial) of one of these men, a scholarly journalist, for the offence und ...

of Crispin Aubrey, John Berry and Duncan Campbell in 1978 in the United Kingdom * Advance Booking Charter, a type of air travel * '' 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