ABA may refer to:

Businesses and organizations

Broadcasting

Alabama Broadcasters Association The Alabama Broadcasters Association (ABA) represents radio and television broadcasters across the U.S. state of Alabama. It is affiliated with the National Association of Broadcasters. Every year the organization presents the ABBY (Alabama's ...

, 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 C ...

, Japanese television station *

Australian Broadcasting Authority The Australian Broadcasting Authority (ABA) was an Australian government agency whose main roles were to regulate broadcasting, radiocommunications and telecommunications. The Authority took over the functions of the Australian Broadcasting Trib ...

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 The ABA League, renamed to the ABA League First Division in 2017, is the 1st-tier regional men's professional basketball league that originally featured clubs from the former Yugoslavia (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, North Mace ...

, 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) The American Basketball Association (ABA) is an American semi-professional men's basketball minor league that was founded in 1999. The ABA has teams based in the United States and previously had international teams based in Canada and Mexico. ...

, semi-professional league *

Australian Basketball Association The Australian Basketball Association (ABA) was a semi-professional basketball entity based in Australia. The ABA was Australia's biggest basketball competition for many years. With over 120 teams participating across five leagues and six states ...

, defunct semi-professional entity

Other sports

* Amateur Boxing Association of England, 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 Ice is water frozen into a solid state, typically forming at or below temperatures of 0 degrees Celsius or Depending on the presence of impurit ...

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 The American Bridge Association (ABA) is a tournament bridge organization in the United States of America. Origins The ABA was formed in 1932 by black tennis players at Buckroe Beach, Virginia; at the time, blacks were excluded from most brid ...

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 ABA Chemicals is a Chinese chemical manufacturing company headquartered in Taicang. The company was founded in 2006 as Suzhou ABA Chemicals, and is traded on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange as 300261. The company provides contract development and m ...

, a Chinese chemical manufacturing company *

ABA Games ABA Games is a Japanese video game developer, composed solely of game designer Kenta Cho. ABA Games' works, available as Open source software, open source, are predominantly shoot 'em up games often inspired by classic games in the genre. Its ga ...

, 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 The American Bankers Association (ABA) is a Washington, D.C.-based trade association for the U.S. banking industry, founded in 1875. They lobby for banks of all sizes and charters, including community banks, regional and money center banks, sav ...

American Bandmasters Association The American Bandmasters Association (ABA) was formed in 1929 by Edwin Franko Goldman to promote concert band music.Raoul F. Camus. "American Bandmasters Association." In Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online, http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/sub ...

American Baptist Association The American Baptist Association (ABA) is an Independent Baptist Christian denomination in United States. The headquarters is in Texarkana, Texas. The principal founder was Ben M. Bogard, a pastor of Antioch Missionary Baptist Church in Little ...

, 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 The American Birding Association (ABA) is a nonprofit organization, founded in 1969, dedicated to recreational birding in Canada and the United States. It has been called "the standard-bearer for serious birding in North America." Originally con ...

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, Khakassia, Russia * ABA, the National Rail code for Aberdare railway station, 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 In the United States, an ABA routing transit number (ABA RTN) is a nine-digit code printed on the bottom of checks to identify the financial institution on which it was drawn. The American Bankers Association (ABA) developed the system in 1910 ...

, 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 Abé (also spelled Abbé, Abbey, Abi) is a language of uncertain classification within the Kwa branch of the Niger–Congo family. It is spoken in Ivory Coast. The dialects of Abé are Tioffo, Morie, Abbey-Ve, and Kos Kos or Cos (; el, � ...

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 Accredited Business Accountant (ABA) is one of the trademarked credentials offered by the privately operated Accreditation Council for Accountancy and Taxation (ACAT). An alternative equivalent trademarked ACAT credential, ABA may be used by ac ...

, 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 Fe ...

, act of the US Congress