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

Places

* Ace, ancient name of

Acre, Israel Acre ( ), known locally as Akko ( he, עַכּוֹ, ''ʻAkō'') or Akka ( ar, عكّا, ''ʻAkkā''), is a city in the coastal plain region of the Northern District of Israel. The city occupies an important location, sitting in a natural harb ...

* Ace, Texas, United States, an unincorporated community * 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

People and fictional characters

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

Arts, entertainment, and media

Awards

* ACE Awards (Award for Cable Excellence) *

New York Latin ACE Awards New York Latin ACE Awards are given annually to honor achievement in Latino cinema, television, radio and theatre by an organization of New York-based Hispanic journalists and correspondents. ACE is an acronym for ''Asociación de Cronistas de ...

, an award for Latino achievement in entertainment

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) Ace Magazines was a comic book and pulp-magazine publishing company headed by Aaron A. Wyn and his wife Rose Wyn. The Wyns had been publishing pulp fiction under the Periodical House and A. A. Wyn's Magazine Publishers names since 1928, and p ...

, a 1940-1956 a comic-book and pulp-magazine publishing company

Music

Groups

* Ace (band), a 1970s British rock group *

A.C.E (South Korean band) A.C.E () is a South Korean boy band formed by Beat Interactive, and co-managed with Swing Entertainment. The group consists of five members: Jun, Donghun, Wow, Kim Byeongkwan, and Chan. The group debuted on May 23, 2017, with the single "Cact ...

, a South Korean boy 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 *

The Aces (rock and roll band) The Aces are a long-standing rock and roll band from Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, who have been playing for well over fifty years. At the height of their success in the 1960s they supported both The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, as well as ...

, a British group formed in the 1950s

Labels

Ace Records (United Kingdom) Ace Records Ltd. is a British record label founded in 1978. Initially the company only gained permission from the similarly named label based in Mississippi to use the name in the UK, but eventually also acquired the rights to publish their r ...

Ace Records (United States) Ace Records was a record label that was started in August 1955 in Jackson, Mississippi by Johnny Vincent, with Teem Records as its budget subsidiary. History Ace also had the Vin label. Its records were distributed independently until 1962 ...

Albums and songs

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

Video games

* ''Ace'' (video game), stylized as ''ACE'', a 1985 flight simulator video game by Cascade Games * ''A.C.E. Another Century's Episode'', a 2005 video game for the PlayStation 2 * '' Ace Online'', a flight-based online role-playing game

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

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

Ace Cinema The Ace Cinema, originally the Grosvenor Cinema and now known as the Zoroastrian Centre, is a Grade II* listed Art Deco former cinema in Rayners Lane in the London Borough of Harrow. Building The cinema is streamlined Art Deco in style, the f ...

, cinema in the London Borough of Harrow

Brands and enterprises

* Ace (brand), Latin American brand name for Tide detergent *

Ace Books Ace Books is a publisher of science fiction (SF) and fantasy books founded in New York City in 1952 by Aaron A. Wyn. It began as a genre publisher of mysteries and westerns, and soon branched out into other genres, publishing its first scienc ...

, 1952–present, an American publisher of science fiction and fantasy * 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 world's largest hardware retail cooperative, and the largest non-grocery American retail cooperative. Founded in 1924 ...

, an American retailers' cooperative * ACE Limited, a Swiss insurance company * Ace Radio, an Australian company *

ACE Team ACE Team is a Chilean video game developer based in Santiago. Founded in the late 1990s by brothers Andres, Carlos and Edmundo Bordeu, the company started out by developing total conversions before turning to commercial game development. All ...

, a Chilean video game company * Ace Tone, a musical instrument company *

ACeS ACeS (PT Asia Cellular Satellite) was a regional satellite telecommunications company based in Jakarta, Indonesia. It offered GSM-like satellite telephony services to Asian market. The coverage area included Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Phili ...

, a regional satellite-telecommunications company based in Jakarta, Indonesia *

Aces Studio Aces Game Studio (ACES) was an American video game developer based in Redmond, Washington, owned by Microsoft Game Studios. It was founded in 1988 under the name Bruce Artwick Organization Limited (BAO Ltd.) at Champaign, Illinois, by Bruce Ar ...

, a former video game company *

Rockman Ace Scholz Research & Development, Inc. was the name of the company founded by musician and engineer Tom Scholz to design and manufacture music technology products. Scholz is an MIT-trained engineer who developed many of his skills as a product des ...

, a guitar amplifier in the Rockman series * Accelerated Christian Education, an educational products company *

Action Construction Equipment Action Construction Equipment Ltd. is an Indian material handling and construction equipment manufacturing company, incorporated in 1995. The company has eight manufacturing sites in Faridabad, Haryana, with a research and development in Fa ...

, an Indian company

Government

* ACE Electoral Knowledge Network, a web portal * Agriculture in Concert with the Environment, a US Environmental Protection Agency program *

American Clean Energy and Security Act The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (ACES) was an energy bill in the 111th United States Congress () that would have established a variant of an emissions trading plan similar to the European Union Emission Trading Scheme. The bil ...

(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, tonnage sunk, or a number of successful sniper shots. In a manner ...

** Flying ace, 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 *

Allied Command Europe An alliance is a relationship among people, groups, or states that have joined together for mutual benefit or to achieve some common purpose, whether or not explicit agreement has been worked out among them. Members of an alliance are called ...

, central command of NATO forces in Europe * Aviation combat element, the air arm of the US Marines Air-Ground Task Force *

Galil ACE The IMI Galil ( he, גליל) is a family of Israeli-made automatic rifles chambered for the 5.56×45mm NATO and 7.62×51mm NATO cartridges. Originally designed by Yisrael Galili and Yakov Lior in the late 1960s, the Galil was first produced ...

, an assault rifle * HMS ''Ace'' (P414), a British submarine *

M9 Armored Combat Earthmover The M9 Armored Combat Earthmover (ACE) is a highly mobile armored tracked vehicle that provides combat engineer support to front-line forces. Fielded by the United States Army, its tasks include eliminating enemy obstacles, maintenance and repair ...

, a tracked vehicle * United States Army Corps of Engineers

Organisations

* Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment * Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals *

Alternatives for Community and Environment Alternatives for Community and Environment (ACE) is an environmental justice community organization based in Boston's Nubian Square (formerly Dudley Square). Founded in 1994, ACE works to eradicate environmental racism and classism and achieve e ...

, a Boston environmental justice organization *

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

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 the ...

American College of Epidemiology The American College of Epidemiology (ACE) is an American organization incorporated in 1979 to support and promote the work of American epidemiologists. It is based in Raleigh, North Carolina. Members of the American College of Epidemiology are p ...

* American Copy Editors Society * American Council on Education * Animal Charity Evaluators *

Anime Contents Expo The also known as ACE was one of the largest anime trade fairs in the world, held annually in Japan. The first event was held in 2012. The event was held at Makuhari Messe, a convention and exhibition center in Tokyo Bay, in late March. In 2014 it ...

, 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. It is also a registered charity. It was formed in 1994 when the Arts Council of Great Britain was divided into three s ...

* Association for Comparative Economic Studies *

Association for Consciousness Exploration The Association for Consciousness Exploration LLC (ACE) is an American organization based in Northeastern Ohio which produces events, books, and recorded media in the fields of "magic, mind-sciences, alternative lifestyles, comparative religion/sp ...

* 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 The Astronaute Club Européen or ACE, is a French association created on December 3, 2005 (decree of the ''Journal Officiel'' n°20050049), by Jean-Pierre Haigneré (cosmonaut), Laurent Gathier (director of space activities of Dassault Aviation ...

, a French space tourism association * Australian College of Educators *

Auxiliary Campus Enterprises and Services Alfred State College (ASC, SUNY Alfred, SUNY Alfred State) is a public college in Alfred (village), New York, Alfred, New York. It is part of the State University of New York (SUNY) system. The college, formerly the Technical College at Alf ...

, an organization at Alfred College, US

Education

* Alternative Center for Excellence, a school in Danbury, Connecticut, US * Aviation Centre of Excellence, a department of Confederation College in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada

Science and technology

Aerospace

* Advanced Cryogenic Evolved Stage, a proposed rocket 2nd stage for ULA * Advanced Composition Explorer, a NASA satellite * Advanced Crew Escape Suit, an astronaut suit * Atomic Clock Ensemble in Space, a European Space Agency project * Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment, a project of the Canadian satellite

SCISAT-1 SCISAT-1 is a Canadian satellite designed to make observations of the Earth's atmosphere. Its main instruments are an optical Fourier transform infrared spectrometer, the ACE-FTS Instrument, and an ultraviolet spectrophotometer, MAESTRO. These d ...

* Asia Cellular Satellite system, a precursor of the Indonesian satellite company

PT Pasifik Satelit Nusantara PT Pasifik Satelit Nusantara (PSN) is a private Indonesian satellite telecommunications company. It was formed in 1991 and was the first satellite-based telecommunications company in Indonesia. In 1995, a collaboration started what was to bec ...

Biology, chemistry, and healthcare

A.C.E. mixture ACE mixture is an historical anaesthetic agent for general anaesthesia. It was first suggested by George Harley and first used in England around 1860. In 1864 it was recommended for use by the Royal Medical and Surgical Society's Chloroform Com ...

, an historical anesthetic *

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 vasoconstr ...

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

ACE inhibitor Angiotensin-converting-enzyme inhibitors (ACE inhibitors) are a class of medication used primarily for the treatment of hypertension, high blood pressure and heart failure. They work by causing relaxation of blood vessels as well as a decrease i ...

, a drug that lowers blood pressure * Ace K, acesulfame potassium, an artificial sweetener *

ACE unit Elderly care, or simply eldercare (also known in parts of the English-speaking world as aged care), serves the needs and requirements of senior citizens. It encompasses assisted living, adult daycare, long-term care, nursing homes (often calle ...

(Acute Care of Elderly), a type of hospital facility * Acepromazine, an antipsychotic drug used primarily in animals *

ACES (buffer) ACES is the common abbreviation for the compound ''N''-(2-Acetamido)-2-aminoethanesulfonic acid. ACES is one of Good's buffers developed in the 1960s to provide buffers with pH ranging from 6.15-8.35 for use in various applications. With a p' ...

, one of Good's buffers * ACES (nutritional supplement), containing vitamins A, C, E and selenium * Adverse childhood experiences *

Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination The Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination (ACE) and its subsequent versions (Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination-Revised, ACE-R and Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination III, ACE-III) are neuropsychological tests used to identify cognitive impairment i ...

Computing

* ACE (compressed file format) * Ace (editor), a code editor written in JavaScript * ACE (editor), a desktop-based collaborative editor * ACE (genomic file format) * ACES (computational chemistry), a software package *

Access Control Entry In computer security, an access-control list (ACL) is a list of permissions associated with a system resource (object). An ACL specifies which users or system processes are granted access to objects, as well as what operations are allowed on gi ...

, part of an access control list *

Acehnese language Acehnese or Achinese (Jawi alphabet, Jawi: بهسا اچيه) 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 p ...

(ISO 639 code) * Adaptive Communication Environment, an open-source network-programming framework * Advanced Computerized Execution System, a stock-trading system *

Advanced Computing Environment The Advanced Computing Environment (ACE) was defined by an industry consortium in the early 1990s to be the next generation commodity computing platform, the successor to personal computers based on Intel's 32-bit instruction set architecture. The ...

, an early 1990s initiative for commodity computing hardware *

Adverse Childhood Experiences Study Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) encompass various forms of physical and emotional abuse, neglect, and household dysfunction experienced in childhood. The harms of ACEs can be long-lasting, affecting people even in their adulthood. ACEs have be ...

* Agent-based computational economics * Arbitrary code execution * ASCII Compatible Encoding, a prefix related to internationalized domain names * Asynchronous Compute Engine, a component defined in AMD's Graphics Core Next for ATI-type products * Automatic Computing Engine, a 1952 British computer *

Automatic Content Extraction Automatic content extraction (ACE) is a research program for developing advanced information extraction technologies convened by the NIST from 1999 to 2008, succeeding MUC and precedinText Analysis Conference Goals and efforts In general objecti ...

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

Other uses in science and technology

Ace (quark model) A quark () is a type of elementary particle and a fundamental constituent of matter. Quarks combine to form composite particles called hadrons, the most stable of which are protons and neutrons, the components of atomic nuclei. All commonly o ...

, an obsolete term for quark *

ACE (cable system) Africa Coast to Europe (ACE) is an optical-fiber submarine cable system serving 24 countries on the Europe , west coast and south Africa, managed by a consortium of 20 members. The ACE cable connects more than 450 million people, either d ...

, a submarine communications cable * Academy Color Encoding System (ACES), a proposed color image encoding *

ACE experiment The Antiproton Cell Experiment (ACE), AD-4, at the Antiproton Decelerator facility at CERN, Geneva, was started in 2003. It aims to assess fully the effectiveness and suitability of antiprotons for cancer therapy. In 1947, Robert R. Wilson introd ...

, the Antiproton Cell Experiment hosted at CERN *

Accumulated cyclone energy Accumulated cyclone energy (ACE) is a metric used by various agencies to express the energy released by a tropical cyclone during its lifetime. It is calculating by summing the square of a tropical cyclone's maximum sustained winds, measured ever ...

* Aggregative Contingent Estimation, a program of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency *

Alternating conditional expectations Alternating conditional expectations (ACE) is an algorithm to find the optimal transformations between the response variable and predictor variables in regression analysis.Breiman, L. and Friedman, J. HEstimating optimal transformations for multip ...

, an algorithm in nonparametric regression. * Alternative Chassis Engineering, a UK bus manufacturer, builder of the

ACE Cougar The ACE Cougar was a type of midibus built by Alternative Chassis Engineering (ACE) in England in the early 1990s. It did not prove successful and only two were built. Details The ACE Cougar was designed to use Leyland National components wh ...

* Attempto Controlled English, a controlled natural language from the University of Zurich

Sports

Terminology

* Ace (baseball), a team's best starting pitcher *

Ace (golf) In golf, a hole in one or hole-in-one (also known as an ace, mostly in American English) occurs when a ball hit from a tee to start a hole finishes in the cup. A ball hit from a tee following a lost ball, out-of-bounds, or water hazard is not a ho ...

, 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 * Ace formation, in American football

Teams

Alaska Aces (ECHL) The Alaska Aces, known as the Anchorage Aces until 2003, was a professional ice hockey team in Anchorage, Alaska. Home games were played at Sullivan Arena in Anchorage. The Aces won three Kelly Cup championships, with their last championship fol ...

, an American ice hockey team * Alaska Aces (PBA), a Philippine basketball team *

Alexandria Aces The Alexandria Aces were a baseball team based in Alexandria, Louisiana. The last version of the Aces played in the United League Baseball in 2013. The Aces have played their home games at historic Bringhurst Field, which was built in 1933 for the ...

, a defunct American baseball team in Louisiana *

Asheville Aces The Asheville Aces were a Southern Professional Hockey League ( SPHL) team in Asheville, North Carolina. The team, which suffered limited success and low attendance, lasted only one year before disbanding. Franchise History The Asheville Aces we ...

, 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 Dallas Aces (initially the U.S. Aces, later simply the Aces) were the world's first professional bridge team, organized in 1968 by Dallas businessman Ira Corn. Corn was determined to return bridge supremacy to America after the domination of t ...

, 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 The Northeast League Aces (also simply referred to as The Aces) were a traveling team in the Northeast League in the 2004 season to replace the Allentown Ambassadors. The Ambassadors' roster was dispersed around the league, and the Aces were for ...

, 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, an Australian baseball team founded 1934

Transportation

Automotive

Ace (1913 automobile) The Ace was a British car built between 1912 and 1916 in Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire. It was an 8 hp light car, with a 748 cc, four-cylinder water-cooled monobloc engine with Stethnos carburettor, it had a 2-speed gearbox and cha ...

, a 1912-1916 British car *

Ace (1920 automobile) The Ace was an American-assembled car made in Ypsilanti, Michigan by the Apex Motor Car Company, which was reorganized as the Apex Motor Corporation in 1921. The initial batch of cars assembled were sent to Seattle, Washington dealer FE Earnest ...

, a 1920-1922 American car * AC Ace, a 1953-1963 English car * Atlantic City Expressway, a New Jersey toll road which is the main route between Atlantic City and Philadelphia * Tata Ace, an Indian mini-truck introduced 2005 * Ace Motor Corporation, a 1919–1927 American motorcycle company

Aviation

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

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 notab ...

, Aerolíneas Centrales de Colombia, a defunct airline * Aircraft Engineering Corporation, now defunct *

Edel Ace The Edel Ace is a South Korean single-place, paraglider that was designed and produced by Edel Paragliders of Gwangju. It is now out of production.Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: ''World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2003-04'', page 15. Pag ...

, a South Korean paraglider design * ACE, IATA code of Lanzarote Airport, Canary Islands, Spain

Rail

* Altamont Corridor Express, a California train service *

Atlantic City Express Service The Atlantic City Express Service (ACES) was an inter-city train service offered by the Borgata, Caesars Atlantic City, and Harrah's Atlantic City, operating from February 2009 until September 2011. It was operated by New Jersey Transit under con ...

, a New York-New Jersey train service *

Atlantic Coast Express The ''Atlantic Coast Express'' (''ACE'') is an express passenger train in England that has operated at various times between London and seaside resorts in the South West England. It is currently operated as a summer only service by Great Weste ...

, an England train service * Kintetsu 22600 series "Ace", a Japanese train type

Other uses

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

close friend Friendship is a relationship of mutual affection between people. It is a stronger form of interpersonal bond than an "acquaintance" or an "association", such as a classmate, neighbor, coworker, or colleague. In some cultures, the concept of ...