ABC Chinese-English Dictionary

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 Group, the former name of the parent organization of ABC Television Network
**

ABC Audio

(ABC Radio from 2015 to 2019), the current radio network relaunched by Disney/ABC News since 2015
** ABC Radio, the former name of the American radio network Cumulus Media Networks
* Australian Broadcasting Corporation, one of the national publicly funded broadcasters of Australia
**ABC TV (Australian TV network), the flagship TV channel of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
**ABC (TV station), Canberra
**ABC Australia (Southeast Asian TV channel), an international pay TV channel
**ABC Online
* ''ABC'' (Swedish news programme), a regional news programme
* ABC Development Corporation, former name of TV5 Network, Inc., a Philippine television company
** ABC 5, the former name of TV5 (Philippines), a Philippine free-to-air network
* ABC Radio (disambiguation)
* Asahi Broadcasting Corporation, a Japanese commercial television and radio station
* ABC Weekend TV, a former British television company
* Associated Broadcasting Company, a former name of Associated Television, a British television company

Music

Groups

* ABC (band), an English new wave band
* A.B.C-Z (A.B.C. till 2008), a Japanese boyband managed by Johnny's and Associates
* Acid Black Cherry, a Japanese rock band
* Alien Beat Club, a Danish pop band
* Another Bad Creation, an American R&B and rap musical group

Labels

* ABC Classics, an Australian record label
* ABC Records, an American record label

Albums

* ''ABC'' (The Jackson 5 album), a 1970 album by The Jackson 5
* ''ABC'' (Jin album), a 2007 album by Chinese-American rapper Jin
* ''ABC'' (Kreidler album), a 2014 album by the band Kreidler

Other uses in music

* ABC song (disambiguation), 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 Color

'', a Paraguayan newspaper founded in 1967

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

* ABC Cinemas, a UK cinema chain
* Alphabet book, any of several children's books depicting the alphabet
* ''America's Best Comics'', an imprint of DC Comics

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, famous for its bookshops

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

Other companies

* ABC Learning Centres, a former Australian childcare business
* ABC Stores (Hawaii), a chain of convenience stores in Hawaii
* Aircraft Builders Council, 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 (North America)
** Audit Bureau of Circulations (UK)

Mathematics

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

Organizations

Political organizations and unions

* ABC (Cuba), Cuban political organization 1931–1952, named after the system for labeling its clandestine cells
* All Basotho Convention, 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, founded 1947
* Anarchist Black Cross, a political organization
* Anything But Conservative, a 2008 Canadian political campaign
* Association of Barangay Captains, an organization of all the barangays (villages) in the Philippines now known as the League of Barangays in the Philippines
* Association of British Counties, of historic counties

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 (USBC)
* Association of Boxing Commissions, a North American not-for-profit professional boxing and mixed martial arts (MMA) organization
* Indianapolis ABCs, a 1900s Negro league baseball team

Other organizations

* Academia Británica Cuscatleca, a school in Santa Tecla, El Salvador
* Afrikan Black Coalition, 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 Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, Virginia, US

Science and technology

Biology and medicine

* ABC (medicine), a mnemonic for "Airway, Breathing, Circulation"
*

Abacavir

, an antiretroviral drug used to treat HIV/AIDS
* ABC model of flower development, a genetic model
* Abortion–breast cancer hypothesis, a posited connection between breast cancer and abortion
* Alien big cat, 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

Other uses in computing

* ABC (computer virus), a memory-resident, file-infecting computer virus
* ABC (programming language), a programming language and environment
* ABC (stream cipher), a stream cipher algorithm
* .abc, ActionScript Byte Code files; see comparison of application virtual machines
*.abc, or Alembic (computer graphics) file format
* 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 (ABC) model, an Attitude (psychology)#Attitude component model, 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
* 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

* Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope (1883–1963), nicknamed ABC, British WWII admiral
* ABC strategy, for "Abstinence, be faithful, use a condom", a sex-education strategy
* American-born Chinese, people of Chinese ethnicity born in the United States
* Australian-born Chinese, people of Chinese ethnicity born in Australia
* Advance Booking Charter, a type of air travel
* Air batu campur, also known as ''ais kacang'', a Malaysian dessert
* Architectural, building and construction, an industry; for example see Industry Foundation Classes

See also

* .abc (disambiguation)
* Alcoholic Beverage Control (disambiguation)

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