ACS National Award

ACS or Acs may refer to:

Organizations and societies

* American Cancer Society, an American voluntary health organization dedicated to eliminating cancer
* American Ceramic Society, an American professional organization
* American Cheese Society, a professional organization of the American cheese industry
* American Chemical Society, an American professional association
* American College of Surgeons, a fellowship of American surgeons
* American Colonization Society, an organization that helped in founding Liberia as a colony for freed slaves
* American Constitution Society for Law and Policy, an organization of lawyers and law students in the US
* American Cryonics Society, non-profit corporation that supports and promotes research and education into cryonics
* American CueSports Alliance, a US-based pool league
* Association of Caribbean States, an advisory, consultative body of Caribbean countries
* Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians, an association founded England in 1973 to collect cricket data
* Audience Council Scotland, a BBC Trust organisation in Scotland
* Australian Cinematographers Society
* Australian Computer Society, an association for information and communications technology professionals
* Australian Cricket Society, an association of cricket lovers
* Redfern Aboriginal Children's Services, a community services organisation for Indigenous children in Sydney, Australia

Sports

* AC Sparta Prague, a Czech football club
* AC Sporting, a Lebanese football club

Companies and commerce

* ACS:Law, a British law firm specializing in intellectual property cases
* Advanced Card Systems, a Hong Kong-based developer of smart cards and smart card readers
* Advanced Composites Solutions, a Brazilian engineering company specialized in composite materials technology
* Advanced Contact Solutions, a Philippine business process outsourcing company
* Affiliated Computer Services, an America business and technology outsourcing company
* Air Cess, a cargo airline based in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
* Alaska Communications System, former name of AT&T Alascom, an American communications services company
* Alaska Communications Systems, an American communications services company, distinct from AT&T Alascom
* Alternative compensation system, a way to allow reproduction of digital copyrighted works while still paying the authors and copyright owners
* Applied Communication Sciences, a telecommunications research, engineering and consulting company based in the US
* Grupo ACS (''Actividades de Construcción y Servicios''), a civil engineering firm based in Madrid, Spain

Computing and technology

* ACS-1 and ACS-360, supercomputers designed but never completed in the 1960s by the IBM ''Advanced Computing Systems''
* Access Control Service, a cloud-based service for authentication and authorization
* Access Control Server, a component of Cisco's Network Admission Control technology
* Access Control Server, the server authenticating a card in the 3-D Secure framework
* Action Code Script, a scripting language used in video games such as ''HeXen'' and ''Doom'' ports
* Adobe Creative Suite, a software package by Adobe Inc.
* Advanced Camera for Surveys, an instrument aboard the Hubble Space Telescope
* Air cavity system, a modern marine craft design concept based upon capturing air beneath a vessel's hull to reduce drag and increase speed and fuel efficiency
* Atacama Large Millimeter Array ("ALMA") Common Software, a control framework used in ground-based astronomy projects
* Attitude control system, a spacecraft system
* Audit Collection Services, a component of Microsoft System Center Operations Manager

Education

* ACS International Schools, a group of international schools in the UK
* Advanced Communicator, Silver ("ACS"), Toastmasters International Recognition for advanced Communication training
* Alabaster City Schools, a school district headquartered in Alabaster, Alabama
* Alperton Community School, a secondary school in London, UK
* American College of Sofia, a secondary school in Sofia, Bulgaria
* American Community School at Beirut, an international private school located in Beirut, Lebanon
* American Community School in Amman, an international school in Amman, Jordan
* American Community School of Abu Dhabi, an international school of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
* American Community Schools, an English-speaking private school system in Athens, Greece
* American Cooperative School of La Paz
* American Cooperative School of Tunis
* Anglo-Chinese School, Singapore, a group of Methodist schools in Singapore
* Anglo-Chinese Schools, Malaysia, a group of Methodist schools in Malaysia
* Arkansas Correctional School, a school system in prisons, in Arkansas
* Associated Colleges of the South, a group of liberal arts colleges in the US
* Assumption College School, a catholic high school in Ontario, Canada
* Aurora Christian Schools, a private PreK-12 school in Aurora, Illinois, US
* Avery Coonley School, a private elementary school in Downers Grove, Illinois, US
* Lehman Alternative Community School, a combined middle and high school Ithaca, New York

Government

* American Community Survey, a project of the US Census Bureau
* Administration for Children's Services, governmental agency of New York City
* Australian Customs Service, former Australian government agency responsible for Australian border protection (1985–2009)

Medicine and science

* 2-Amino-3-carboxymuconic semialdehyde, a chemical in tryptophan metabolism
* Acetyl-CoA Synthetase, an enzyme
* Acute Compartment syndrome
* Acute coronary syndrome, a form of chest pain due to reduced oxygen supply to the heart muscle
* Advanced Cataract Surgery, the modern method of cataract removal using phacoemulsification
* Anticenter shell, a supershell located outside of the galaxy
* Atriocaval shunt, a surgical procedure

Military

* Attack Characterization System
* Aerial Common Sensor, a Lockheed Martin reconnaissance aircraft airframe for the US Army and Navy
* Army Combat Shirt, flame-resistant shirt developed for the US Army
* Auxiliary crane ship, a vessel of the US Navy
* Cavalry Corps (Ireland) (1st Armoured Cavalry Squadron), an armoured reconnaissance unit of the Irish Army

Places

* Ács, a Hungarian town
* Achinsk Airport, an airport in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia (IATA: ACS)

Other uses

* Acs (surname), a surname
* An abbreviation for Acroá language, an extinct Ge language of Brazil

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