ABA may refer to:

Aviation

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 Aerotran ...

, former Scandinavian airline * IATA airport code for Abakan International Airport in Republic of Khakassia, Russia

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 B ...

, 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. Headquarters *125-1, Arakawa aza Shibata, Aomori City, Aomori Prefecture, Japan *Te ...

, Japanese television station *

Australian Broadcasting Authority The Australian Broadcasting Authority was an Australian government agency whose main roles were to regulate broadcasting, radio communications and telecommunications. The Authority took over the functions of the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal ...

Education

Académie des Beaux-Arts (Kinshasa) An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of tertiary education. The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy, founded approximately 386 BC at Akademia, a sanctuary of Athena, the g ...

, Democratic Republic of the Congo *

American British Academy The ABA Oman International School, earlier known as American British Academy is a private, non-profit, co-educational international school in Muscat, Oman established in September 1987. It offers a K-12 English-language curriculum to expatriate st ...

, Oman

Sports

Basketball

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

, 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 ...

, Adriatic second-tier basketball league *

American Basketball Association The American Basketball Association (ABA) was a major professional basketball league that operated for nine seasons from 1967 to 1976. The upstart ABA operated in direct competition with the more established National Basketball Association thr ...

, 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. ABA teams are based in the United States, with one traveling team from Japan. The league previously had internati ...

, semi-professional league *

Australian Basketball Association The Australian Basketball Association (ABA) was a semi-professional basketball competition in Australia. The competition had five leagues under its banner during the 2000s operating as conferences: South East Australian Basketball League (SEABL ...

, defunct semi-professional entity

Other sports

Amateur Boxing Association of England England Boxing, known until 2013 as the Amateur Boxing Association of England, is the leading Sports governing body, governing body of amateur boxing clubs in England. There are separate organisations for Scotland and Wales with boxing in North ...

, former name of England Boxing *

American Bandy Association Bandy in the United States is played mostly in Minnesota, but has started to grow in Nevada as well. United States national bandy team, The national team regularly plays in Division A of the Bandy World Championships. In terms of licensed athlet ...

American Bicycle Association The American Bicycle Association (ABA) was a US-based BMX racing governing body in Gilbert, Arizona. In 2011, the ABA merged with the former National Bicycle League and became the present-day USA BMX: The American Bicycle Association. The ABA wa ...

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 bridg ...

Trade and professional bodies

American Bankers Association The American Bankers Association (ABA) is an American trade association for the U.S. banking industry, founded in 1875. They lobby for banks of all sizes and bank charters, including community banks, regional and money center banks, Federal s ...

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 Bar Association The American Bar Association (ABA) is a voluntary association, voluntary bar association of lawyers and law students in the United States; national in scope, it is not specific to any single jurisdiction. Founded in 1878, the ABA's stated acti ...

, an association of lawyers *

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 The Coca-Cola Company, PepsiCo, and Keurig Dr Pe ...

, beverage industry lobby organization *

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 to ...

American Bus Association The American Bus Association (ABA) serves as a trade association for motorcoach operators and tour companies operating in the United States and Canada. With its headquarters situated in Washington, D.C., the association has a membership compri ...

Antiquarian Booksellers Association The Antiquarian Booksellers' Association (ABA) is the senior trade body in the Ireland and Great Britain for dealers in antiquarian and rare books, manuscripts and allied materials. The ABA organises a number of book fairs every year including it ...

, a trade body in the British Isles *

Association of Black Anthropologists Founded in 1975, the Association of Black Anthropologists (ABA) is an American organization that brings together Black anthropologists in an effort to better highlight the history of African Americans, especially in regard to exploitation, oppres ...

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 Booksellers Association The Australian Booksellers Association (also known as BookPeople) promotes the interests of booksellers in Australia. The association has its origins in state associations formed early in the 20th century, which later amalgamated into a federal ass ...

American Bantam Association The American Bantam Association is a poultry fancy association for breeders of bantam poultry. It publishes the ''Bantam Standard'', with detailed descriptions of all the bantam breeds and varieties that it recognizes; in most – but not all � ...

Other businesses and organizations

ABA Chemicals ABA Chemicals, also known as Abachem, 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 co ...

, 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, a ...

, United States *

American Baptist Association The American Baptist Association (ABA) is a Baptist denomination in the United States with offices, a book store, and a publishing house in Texarkana. One of the principal founders was the Reverend Ben M. Bogard (1868–1951), a pastor of An ...

, a Baptist denomination predominant in the American South * American Bell Association International *

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

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 Austra ...

, mining, bagging and blue asbestos distribution company * Australian Breastfeeding Association

Finance

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 cheque, checks to identify the financial institution on which it was drawn. The American Bankers Association (ABA) developed the system i ...

, a bank code used in the United States * Accredited Business Accountant, American accountancy credential

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 Bach, Johann Sebastian's father, supposedly started to collec ...

'', 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 inclu ...

in music

Transport

* ABA, the National Rail code for

Aberdare railway station Aberdare railway station () serves the town of Aberdare in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. It is the Terminal station, terminus of the Aberdare branch of the Merthyr Line, 22½ miles (36 km) north-north-west of . Passenger services are provi ...

, 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 the read value being the same twice is used to conclude that nothing has happened in the interim; how ...

, a multithreading computing anomaly * A.B.A, 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 (; ) ...

of Ivory Coast *

Abscisic acid Abscisic acid (ABA or abscisin II) 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 ...

, a plant hormone *

Applied behavior analysis Applied behavior analysis (ABA), also referred to as behavioral engineering, is a behavior modification system based on the principles of respondent and operant conditioning. ABA is the applied form of behavior analysis; the other two are: ...

, a controversial programme most commonly employed to modify the behaviour of children with autism *

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