ABC, abc, or Abc commonly refers to:

• ABC, the first three letters of the Latin script

ABC, abc, or Abc may also refer to:

Arts, media, and entertainment

Broadcasting

American Broadcasting Company, a commercial American TV broadcaster

• Disney–ABC Television Group, the former name of the parent organization of ABC

Australian Broadcasting Corporation, one of the national publicly funded broadcasters of Australia

ABC Television (Australian TV network), the national television network of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation

• ABC TV (Australian TV channel), the flagship TV station of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation

• ABC Canberra (TV station), Canberra, and other ABC TV local stations in state capitals

• ABC Australia (Southeast Asian TV channel), an international pay TV channel

• ABC Radio (disambiguation), several radio stations

• Aliw Broadcasting Corporation, a Philippine broadcast company

Associated Broadcasting Corporation, the former name of TV5 Network, Inc., a Philippine media company

• ABC-5, the former name of TV5, a Philippine free-to-air television network

• ABC (Swedish TV programme), a former Swedish regional news programme

• ABC Weekend TV, a former British television company

• Asahi Broadcasting Corporation, a Japanese commercial television and radio station

• Associated Broadcasting Company, a former name of Associated Television, a British television company

• African Barter Company, a pan-African barter broadcast syndication company

• TVP ABC, a Polish children's television channel

• ABC Television-Africa, a defunct Sierra Leone television channel

• Asociación Boliviana de Canales, a defunct Bolivian television network

Music

Albums

• ABC (Jin album), a 2007 album by rapper MC Jin

• ABC (Kreidler album), a 2014 album by Kreidler

• ABC (The Jackson 5 album), a 1970 album by The Jackson 5

Groups

• A.B.C., the former name of Japanese boy band A.B.C-Z

• ABC (band), an English pop band

• Acid Black Cherry, a Japanese rock band

• Active Bird Community, an American indie rock band

• Alien Beat Club, a Danish pop and R&B band

• Andrus, Blackwood and Company, a Christian pop and R&B duo

• Another Bad Creation, an American hip hop and new jack swing group

Labels

• ABC Classics, an Australian record label

• ABC Records, an American record label

Other uses in music

• ABC song (disambiguation), several songs

• ABC notation, a musical notation language

• O2 ABC Glasgow, a music venue

Periodicals

• ABC (magazine), an Italian magazine (1960-1977)

• ABC (newspaper), a Spanish daily newspaper (founded 1903)

• ABC (Monterrey newspaper), a Mexican newspaper (founded 1985)

• ABC Color, a Paraguayan newspaper (founded 1967)

Audit Bureau of Circulations, a private organization that provides industry-agreed standards for media brand measurement of print publications and other media outlets

• Audit Bureau of Circulations (India), a non-profit circulation-auditing organisation

• Audit Bureau of Circulations (North America), the former name for the North American non-profit industry organization Alliance for Audited Media

• Audit Bureau of Circulations (UK), a non-profit organisation

Literature

• Alphabet book, a type of children's book listing and depicting the letters

• America's Best Comics, an imprint of DC Comics

• Accessible Books Consortium, a subunit of the World Intellectual Property Organization

• Austin Bat Cave, a creative writing nonprofit organization in Texas

Other uses in arts, media, and entertainment

• ABC Cinemas, a British cinema chain

Economics and law

Commerce

• ABC (Lebanon), a chain of department stores and shopping centers, and operator of fashion boutiques in Lebanon

• ABC Stores, a chain of convenience stores in Hawaii

Finance

• Agricultural Bank of China, a bank in the People's Republic of China

• Bank ABC, an international bank headquartered in Bahrain

Other uses in economics and law

• ABC analysis, an inventory categorization technique

• Activity-based costing, an accounting method

• Assignment for the benefit of creditors, a concept in bankruptcy law

• ABC trial, of Crispin Aubrey, John Berry, and Duncan Campbell in 1978 in the UK

Education

• ABC strategy (abstinence, be faithful, use a condom), a sex-education strategy

• ABC Learning, a former Australian childcare business

• Academia Británica Cuscatleca, a school in Santa Tecla, El Salvador

• Afrikan Black Coalition, a University of California student organization

• Andres Bonifacio College, Dipolog City, Philippines

Food and beverage

• Air batu campur, also known as ais kacang, a Malaysian dessert

• ABC (food), an Indonesian-based food division of the H. J. Heinz Company

• Aerated Bread Company, a British bakery and tea-room chain

• Alcoholic Beverage Control, or Alcoholic Beverage Commission, a U.S. state's regulatory control over the wholesaling or retailing of some or all categories of alcoholic beverages

• Appalachian Brewing Company, an American brewery

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

• Appa Balwant Chowk, area of Pune, India, noted for its bookshops

Politics and unions

• Abantu Batho Congress, a South African political party

• ABC (Cuba), a Cuban political organization 1931–1952, named after the system for labeling its clandestine cells

• ABC Vancouver, a municipal political party in Vancouver, Canada

• A Better Calgary Party, a municipal political party in Calgary, Canada

• 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 of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers' International Union

• Americans Battling Communism, an anti-communist organization founded in 1947

• Anarchist Black Cross, an anarchist support organization

• Anything But Conservative, a 2008 Canadian political campaign

• Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council, a local government council in Northern Ireland

• Association of Barangay Captains, or Association of Barangay Councils, the former names of the Philippine organization now known as the Liga ng mga Barangay

• Association of British Counties, a non-party-political society

Religious

• American Baptist Convention, the former name of American Baptist Churches US

• Association of Baptist Churches in Ireland, in Ireland and the UK

Science and technology

Biology and medicine

Psychology

• ABC data collection, a descriptive functional behavior assessment method in applied behavior analysis

• Affective-behavioral-cognitive model, an attitude component model

Zoology

• Alien big cat, a large feline outside its indigenous range

• American Bird Conservancy, a nonprofit membership organization

• Australian Bird Count, a project of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union

Other uses in biology and medicine

• Association of Black Cardiologists, a North American nonprofit organization

• Abacavir, an antiretroviral drug used to treat HIV/AIDS

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

• ABC model of flower development, a genetic model

• Abortion–breast cancer hypothesis, a posited connection between breast cancer and abortion

• 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

Software

• 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

• Abstract base class, a programming language concept

• Artificial bee colony algorithm, a search algorithm

• .abc, several file formats

Mathematics

• ABC formula, an expression that provides the solutions to a quadratic equation

• Absorbing boundary condition, a kind of technique for numerical analysis of outgoing waves

• Approximate Bayesian computation, a computational method in Bayesian statistics

• abc conjecture, a statement in number theory

Other science and technology

• ABC dry chemical, a fire extinguishing agent

ABC weapon (atomic, biological, and chemical), a weapon of mass destruction

• Atomic, biological, and chemical defense; now CBRN defense (chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear)

• 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

Sports

• ABC Futebol Clube, a football (soccer) club based in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil

• American Bowling Congress, merged in 2005 with other bowling organizations to form the US Bowling Congress

• Association of Boxing Commissions, a North American not-for-profit professional boxing and mixed martial arts organization

• Indianapolis ABCs, a 1900s Negro league baseball team

Transportation

Aviation

• Advance Booking Charter, a type of air travel

• Albacete Airport, Spain (IATA code: ABC)

Cars

• Active Body Control, a type of automobile suspension technology

• ABC (1906 automobile), an American car by Albert Bledsoe Cole

• ABC (1920 automobile), an English car by ABC Motors

• ABC (1922 automobile), a planned American car

Railway

• Automatic Buffer Couplers, a type of railway couplers

• ABC Rail Guide, a British railway guide published between 1853 and 2007

• Altnabreac railway station, Scotland (National Rail code: ABC)

Other uses in transportation

• ABC Motors, an English manufacturer of aircraft, aero engines and cars

• Anglo Belgian Corporation, a diesel engine manufacturer

• ABC, a Finnish gas station chain owned by the

• ABC motorcycles, a British motorcycle manufacturer

Other uses

• Andrew Browne Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope (1883–1963), nicknamed ABC, a British WWII admiral

• Architectural, building and construction, an industry; see Industry Foundation Classes

• American-born Chinese, people of Chinese ethnicity born in the US

• Australian-born Chinese, people of Chinese ethnicity born in Australia

• Abecedarium, an inscription consisting of the letters of an alphabet

• Ambala Ayta language (ISO 639-3 code: abc)

See also

• AB (disambiguation)

• ABCC (disambiguation)

• ABCD (disambiguation)