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

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. ABC or abc may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Broadcasting

American Broadcasting Company The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television network. It is the flagship property of the ABC Entertainment Group division of The Walt Disney Company. The network is headquartered in Burbank, Cali ...

, a commercial U.S. TV broadcaster **

Disney–ABC Television Group Disney General Entertainment Content, doing business as Walt Disney Television, is an American entertainment company that oversees television content and assets owned and operated by The Walt Disney Company. Forming the company's General Enterta ...

, 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) ABC TV, formerly known as ABC1, is an Australian national public television network. It is owned and operated by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and is the flagship ABC Television network. The headquarters of the ABC TV channel and ...

, the flagship TV station of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation ***

ABC Canberra (TV station) ABC Television in the ACT comprises national and local programming on the ABC television network in the Australian Capital Territory, which includes the capital city of Australia, Canberra, and broadcasts on a number of channels under the ABC ...

, Canberra, and other ABC TV local stations in state capitals *** ABC Australia (Southeast Asian TV channel), an international pay TV channel *

ABC Radio (disambiguation) ABC Radio may refer to: Australia * History of ABC Radio (Australia), the division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) responsible for: ** ABC Classic, a classical music radio station ** ABC Classic 2, an un-presented streaming-only c ...

, 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 is a certified broadcasting holding company headquartered in Osaka, Japan. Until March 31, 2018, it was a unified radio and television broadcaster serving in the Kansai region. On April 1, 2018, its radio and television broadcasting divisions ...

, a Japanese commercial television and radio station * Associated Broadcasting Company, a former name of

Associated Television Associated Television was the original name of the British broadcaster ATV, part of the Independent Television (ITV) network. It provided a service to London at weekends from 1955 to 1968, to the Midlands on weekdays from 1956 to 1968, and ...

, 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 Acid Black Cherry (abbreviated as ABC) is the solo project of the former lead vocalist of Janne Da Arc, Yasu. The group was formed after Janne Da Arc announced their indefinite hiatus. Information Acid Black Cherry is the solo project of Yasunori ...

, 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 Another Bad Creation (sometimes called ABC for short) Overview )))"> allmusic ((( Another Bad Creation > Overview ))) Retrieved November 7, 2007. Demetrius and Marliss ("Red" and "Mark", respectively) Pugh, as well as Adrian "G.A." (General Austi ...

, an American hip hop and new jack swing group

Labels

ABC Classics ABC are the first three letters of the Latin script known as the alphabet. ABC or abc may also refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Broadcasting * American Broadcasting Company, a commercial U.S. TV broadcaster ** Disney–ABC Television ...

, 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 befo ...

, 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 Asunción (, , , Guarani: Paraguay) is the capital and the largest city of Paraguay. The city stands on the eastern bank of the Paraguay River, almost at ...

'', a Paraguayan newspaper founded in 1967

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

ABC Cinemas ABC Cinemas (Associated British Cinemas) was a cinema chain in the United Kingdom. Originally a wholly owned subsidiary of Associated British Picture Corporation (ABPC), it operated between the 1930s and the 1980s. The brand name was reused in ...

, a UK cinema chain * Alphabet book, 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 Arab Banking Corporation (also called Bank ABC) is an international bank with headquarters in the Diplomatic Area of Manama, in Bahrain. It was incorporated as a joint stock company in 1980 through a special decree by the Amir of Bahrain. It obtai ...

, an international bank headquartered in Bahrain

Food and beverage

ABC (food) PT Heinz ABC Indonesia is an Indonesia-based food and drink subsidiary of Kraft Heinz, based in Jakarta, and manufactures sauces, condiments, juices and syrups. ABC brand was previously owned by PT ABC Central Food Industry, a company that was boug ...

, an Indonesian-based food division of the H. J. Heinz Company * Aerated Bread Company, a British bakery and tea-room chain *

Appalachian Brewing Company The Appalachian Brewing Company, commonly known as ABC, is an American brewery in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. It was founded in January 1997. Appalachian also operates pubs in Gettysburg, Lititz, Mechanicsburg and Shippensburg. The logo feature ...

, an American brewery

Transport

ABC (1906 automobile) The ABC was an American high wheeler automobile built by Albert Bledsoe Cole in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, from 1905 to 1910. Known as the ''Autobuggy'' from 1906 to 1908, it was billed as "the cheapest high-grade car in America", and was availa ...

, an American car *

ABC (1920 automobile) The ABC was an English car manufactured between 1920 and 1929 by ABC Motors. It was a light car (305 kg), powered by a 1203 cc flat-twin, air-cooled engine designed by Granville Bradshaw (the man who was also responsible for the ABC ...

, 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 The ''ABC Rail Guide'', first published in 1853 as ''The ABC or Alphabetical Railway Guide'', was a monthly railway timetable guide to the United Kingdom that was organised on an alphabetical basis that made it easier to use than its competi ...

'', British railway guide published between 1853 and 2007 * ABC motorcycles, a British motorcycle manufacturer

Other companies

ABC Learning ABC Learning was an Australian company that was once the world's largest provider of early childhood education services. It was listed on the Australian Securities Exchange with its market capitalisation reaching A$2.5 billion in March 2006. Th ...

, a former Australian childcare business *

ABC Stores ABC Stores is a chain of convenience stores based in Honolulu. The chain operates 73 stores, 57 of which are located in the state of Hawaii, with the remaining locations in the Mariana Islands and Las Vegas and Guam. The company now generates m ...

, a chain of convenience stores in Hawaii * Aircraft Builders Council, a provider of aviation products liability insurance *

Anglo Belgian Corporation The Anglo Belgian Corporation (ABC) is a Belgian manufacturer of medium speed diesel engines, primarily for the marine market, as well as stationary and locomotive markets. History 1912-1939 On 26 October 1912 the Anglo Belgian corporation was fo ...

, a diesel engine manufacturer *

Audit Bureau of Circulations (disambiguation) An Audit Bureau of Circulations is a private organization that provides industry-agreed standards for media brand measurement of print publications and other media outlets in a given country. The International Federation of Audit Bureaux of Circulat ...

, 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) The Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) is a non-profit organisation owned and developed by the media industry. ABC delivers industry-agreed standards for media brand measurement of print publications, digital channels and events. The company a ...

, 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 Pakalitha ...

, a political party in Lesotho *

Alliance for Barangay Concerns The Alliance for Barangay Concerns (abbreviated ABC) is a political party in the Philippines. It is accredited by the Commission on Elections as a party-list group. The ABC is headed by its national party chairman, James Marty Lim, the former n ...

, a political party in the Philippines *

American Bakery and Confectionery Workers' International Union The American Bakery and Confectionery Workers' International Union (ABC) was a labor union representing bakery workers in the United States. In the 1950s, the Bakery and Confectionery Workers' International Union (B&C) was led by James G. Cross, w ...

, a predecessor to the contemporary Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers' International Union *

Americans Battling Communism Americans Battling Communism Inc. (ABC) was an anti-communist organization created following an October 1947 speech by Pennsylvania Judge Blair Gunther that called for an "ABC movement" to educate America about communism. Chartered in November 1947 ...

, an anti-communist organization founded in 1947 *

Anarchist Black Cross The Anarchist Black Cross (ABC), formerly the Anarchist Red Cross, is an anarchist support organization. The group is notable for its efforts at providing prisoners with political literature, but it also organizes material and legal support for c ...

, an anarchist support organization *

Anything But Conservative Anything But Conservative (french: À bas les conservateurs or ''N'importe quoi d'autre que conservateur''), also known as the ABC campaign and Vote ABC, is a political campaign which aims to defeat the Conservative Party of Canada, Conservativ ...

, 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 The United States Bowling Congress (USBC) is a sports membership organization dedicated to ten-pin bowling in the United States. It was formed in 2005 by a merger of the American Bowling Congress—the original codifier of all tenpin bowling stand ...

, 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, a school in Santa Tecla, El Salvador *

Accessible Books Consortium The Accessible Books Consortium (ABC) is a public-private partnership which was launched in 2014 by the World Intellectual Property Organization. The ABC was created with the intent of being "one possible initiative, amongst others, to implement t ...

, 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 The Association of Black Cardiologists (ABC) is an organization founded to bring special attention to the adverse impact of cardiovascular disease on African Americans. History The ABC was founded in 1974 by Richard Allen Williams, in associati ...

, a North American non-profit * Australian Bird Count, a project of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union *

Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority The Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority (Virginia ABC, or previously known as the Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control) is one of the eleven public safety agencies under the Secretariat of Public Safety and Homeland Securit ...

, public safety agency

Places

ABC countries The ABC countries, or ABC powers, are the South American countries of Argentina, Brazil, and Chile, seen as the three most powerful, influential and wealthiest countries in South America. The term was mostly used in the first half of the 20t ...

, 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 Abacavir, sold under the brand name Ziagen among others, is a medication used to treat HIV/AIDS. Similar to other nucleoside analog reverse-transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs), abacavir is used together with other HIV medications, and is not recom ...

, an antiretroviral drug used to treat HIV/AIDS *

ABC (medicine) ABC and its variations are initialism mnemonics for essential steps used by both medical professionals and lay persons (such as first aiders) when dealing with a patient. In its original form it stands for ''Airway'', ''Breathing,'' and '' Circul ...

, 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 genetic model *

Abortion–breast cancer hypothesis The abortion–breast cancer hypothesis posits that having an induced abortion can increase the risk of getting breast cancer. This hypothesis is at odds with mainstream scientific opinion and is rejected by major medical professional organizatio ...

, 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 Aneurysmal bone cyst (ABC) is a non-cancerous bone tumor composed of multiple varying sizes of spaces in a bone which are filled with blood. The term is a misnomer, as the lesion is neither an aneurysm nor a cyst. It generally presents with pai ...

, a kind of lesion *

ATP-binding cassette transporter The ATP-binding cassette transporters (ABC transporters) are a transport system superfamily that is one of the largest and possibly one of the oldest gene families. It is represented in all extant phyla, from prokaryotes to humans. ABC transp ...

, a transmembrane protein

Computing

Hardware

* ABC, a line of computers by

Dataindustrier AB Dataindustrier AB (literal translation: computer industries shareholding company) or DIAB was a Swedish computer engineering and manufacturing firm, founded in 1970 by Lars Karlsson and active in the 1970s through 1990s. The company's first produc ...

Acorn Business Computer The Acorn Business Computer (ABC) was a series of microcomputers announced at the end of 1983 by the British company Acorn Computers. The series of eight computers was aimed at the business, research and further education markets. Demonstrated at t ...

, 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) In cryptography, ABC is a stream cypher algorithm developed by Vladimir Anashin, Andrey Bogdanov, Ilya Kizhvatov, and Sandeep Kumar. It has been submitted to the eSTREAM Project of the eCRYPT ECRYPT (European Network of Excellence in Cryptolo ...

, a stream cipher algorithm *

Abstract base class In object-oriented programming, a class is an extensible program-code-template for creating objects, providing initial values for state (member variables) and implementations of behavior (member functions or methods). In many languages, the class n ...

, a programming language concept *

Artificial bee colony algorithm In computer science and operations research, the artificial bee colony algorithm (ABC) is an optimization algorithm based on the intelligent foraging behaviour of honey bee swarm, proposed by Derviş Karaboğa (Erciyes University) in 2005. Alg ...

, a search algorithm

Economics

ABC analysis In materials management, ''ABC analysis'' is an inventory categorisation technique. ABC analysis divides an inventory into three categories—"A items" with very tight control and accurate records, "B items" with less tightly controlled and good r ...

, an inventory categorization technique * Activity-based costing, an accounting method *

Assignment for the benefit of creditors A general assignment or assignment is a concept in bankruptcy law in which an insolvent entity's assets are assigned to someone as an alternative to a bankruptcy. One form is an "assignment for the benefit of creditors", abbreviated ABC or AFBC. ...

, a concept in bankruptcy law

Psychology

*ABC data collection, a descriptive functional behavior assessment method in

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. ...

* Affective-behavioral-cognitive model, an attitude component model

Transportation

* Active Body Control, a type of automobile suspension technology *

Automatic Buffer Couplers A coupling (or a coupler) is a mechanism typically placed at each end of a rolling stock, railway vehicle that connects them together to form a train. A variety of coupler types have been developed over the course of railway history. Key issues ...

, 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 *

Accelerated bridge construction Rapid bridge replacement or accelerated bridge construction (ABC) is a technique that allows bridges to be replaced with minimum disruption to traffic. The replacement bridge is constructed on a site near the bridge to be replaced. When it is comp ...

, a technique for building bridges *

Aerial bundled cable Aerial bundled cables (also aerial bundled conductors or simply ABC) are overhead power lines using several insulated phase conductors bundled tightly together, usually with a bare neutral conductor. This contrasts with the traditional practice ...

, for power lines *

Airborne Cigar Airborne Cigar, or ABC for short, was a World War II electronic countermeasure (ECM) system developed by the Telecommunications Research Establishment (TRE) to jam ''Luftwaffe'' ground-to-air radios operating in the very high frequency (VHF) ba ...

, 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 Abstinence, be faithful, use a condom, also known as the ABC strategy or abstinence-plus sex education, also known as abstinence-based sex education, is a sex education policy based on a combination of "risk avoidance" and harm reduction which modi ...

, 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 Advance Booking Charter flights were first introduced in the early 1970s to meet the largely unsatisfied demand for affordable long-haul flights to popular destinations, especially on both sides of the North Atlantic ocean. The world's first ABC f ...

, a type of air travel * ''

Air batu campur The atmosphere of Earth is the layer of gases, known collectively as air, retained by Earth's gravity that surrounds the planet and forms its planetary atmosphere. The atmosphere of Earth protects life on Earth by creating pressure allowing for ...

'', also known as ''ais kacang'', a Malaysian dessert *

American-born Chinese American-born Chinese () (sometimes abbreviated as ABC) is a term widely used to refer to Chinese people that were born in the United States and received U.S. citizenship due to birthright citizenship in the United States. Contested usage In ...

, people of Chinese ethnicity born in the United States *

Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope Admiral of the Fleet Andrew Browne Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope, (7 January 1883 – 12 June 1963) was a senior officer of the Royal Navy during the Second World War. He was widely known by his initials, "ABC". Cunningham ...

(1883–1963), nicknamed ABC, British WWII admiral * Architectural, building and construction, an industry; for example, see Industry Foundation Classes *

Australian-born Chinese Chinese Australians () are Australians of Chinese ancestry. Chinese Australians are one of the largest groups within the global Chinese diaspora, and are the largest Asian Australian community. Per capita, Australia has more people of Chine ...

, people of Chinese ethnicity born in Australia