ABC are the first three letters of the Latin alphabet.

They may refer to:

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1 Broadcasting media 2 Cars 3 Companies 4 Computer science 5 Economics 6 Mathematics 7 Medicine and biology 8 Motorcycles 9 Music
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9.1 Songs and albums 9.2 Groups 9.3 Record labels 9.4 Other music

10 Organizations and projects

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10.1 Ornithological 10.2 Political 10.3 Religious 10.4 Sports 10.5 Other organizations and projects

11 Places 12 Publications and media organizations 13 Technology 14 Other uses

Broadcasting media

American Broadcasting Company, a private US broadcaster Australian Broadcasting Corporation, national publicly funded broadcaster of Australia ABC Radio, the former name of Cumulus Media Networks, an American radio network (formerly owned by the American Broadcasting Company) ABC (Swedish news programme), a regional news programme Asahi Broadcasting Corporation, a Japanese commercial television and radio station Associated Broadcasting Company, a Philippine television network Associated British Corporation, a former British film and television company ABC (newspaper), Spanish daily newspaper

Cars

ABC (1906 automobile), an American car ABC (1920 automobile), an English car ABC (1922 automobile), a planned American car Active Body Control, a type of automobile suspension technology ABC Motors, an English manufacturer of aircraft, aero engines and cars

Companies

ABC Stores (Hawaii), a chain of convenience stores ABC Group, a department store ABC Learning Centres, an Australian child care business Agricultural Bank of China, a bank in the People's Republic of China Aerated Bread Company, a former and once famous British bakery and tea-room chain Appalachian Brewing Company, an American brewery Arab Banking Corporation ABC Cinemas, a UK cinema chain Anglo Belgian Corporation, diesel engine manufacturer Audit Bureau of Circulations, publication circulation auditing companies
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Audit Bureau of Circulations (India) Audit Bureau of Circulations (UK)

Audit Bureau of Circulations (North America)

Computer science

ABC (computer virus), virus ABC (programming language), an imperative general-purpose programming language and programming environment developed at CWI, Netherlands by Leo Geurts, Lambert Meertens, and Steven Pemberton Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm, a search algorithm used for optimizing multi-variable and multi-modal numerical functions ABC (stream cipher), a stream cipher algorithm ABC (Yet Another BitTorrent Client), a free software, open source BitTorrent client based on BitTornado ABC, a line of computer models designed by Dataindustrier AB of Sweden ABC notation, a language for notating music using the ASCII character set Abstract base class, a programming language concept Acorn Business Computer, a series of microcomputers announced at the end of 1983 by the British company Acorn Computers Alcatel Business Communications, a telecommunications protocol AtanasoffBerry Computer, an early electronic digital computer

Economics

ABC analysis, an inventory categorization technique Activity-based costing, an accounting method

Mathematics

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

Medicine and biology

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 ABC strategy for "Abstinence, be faithful, use a condom", a sex education strategy

Motorcycles

ABC motorcycles

Music Songs and albums

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

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"ABC" (song), a 1970 song by The Jackson 5

ABC (Jin album), a 2007 album by Chinese-American rapper Jin. ABC is Jin's fourth overall album, which was released on February 20, 2007
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"ABC" (Jin song), Jin's first single off his 4th album "ABC" (American-born Chinese)

"ABC" (Pipettes song) Alphabet song, or "the ABC's", a song used to teach children the alphabet ABCs (song), the first official single by rapper K'naan on his album Troubadour

Groups

ABC (band), a UK New Wave band Another Bad Creation, an American R&B and rap musical group Acid Black Cherry, a Japanese Rock band Alien Beat Club, a Danish pop band

Record labels

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

Other music

O2 ABC Glasgow, a music venue ABC notation, a musical notation language

Organizations and projects Ornithological

African Bird Club, a British ornithological charity Australian Bird Count, a project of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union

Political

All Basotho Convention, a political party in Lesotho Americans Battling Communism, an anti-communist organization in the United States Anarchist Black Cross, an anarchist political support organization Anything But Conservative, or ABC campaign, 2008 Canadian federal election political campaign Association of British Counties, an advocacy group Anti-Bases Campaign, an organisation campaigning to remove foreign military bases and intelligence installations from New Zealand, and to dismantle the Government Communications Security Bureau

Religious

Association of Baptist Churches in Ireland, a Republic of Ireland and a United Kingdom based Christian denomination

Sports

Amateur Boxing Club (alternate name of Amateur Boxing Association of England), the governing body of amateur boxing clubs in England Indianapolis ABCs, a Negro league baseball team that played in the early to mid 1900s

Other organizations and projects

African Black Coalition, a University of California student organization Aircraft Builders Council, a provider of aviation products liability insurance American Bowling Congress, now part of the United States Bowling Congress

Places

ABC nations, a political term referring to Argentina, Brazil and Chile ABC Islands (Alaska), a term referring to Admiralty Island, Baranof Island, and Chichagof Island ABC islands (Lesser Antilles), a term referring to Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaao

ABC Region, an industrial area outside of So Paulo, Brazil Academia Britnica Cuscatleca (ABC), a school in Santa Tecla, El Salvador Altnabreac railway station (National Rail code), in Scotland American Bank Center, an arena located in Corpus Christi, Texas

Publications and media organizations

ABC (Audit Bureau of Circulations UK), a circulation-auditing organization in the UK and Ireland ABC (newspaper), a Spanish newspaper founded in 1903 Alphabet book, or ABC book, any of several children's books depicting the alphabet America's Best Comics, an imprint of DC Comics Audit Bureau of Circulations (North America), a circulation-auditing organization in North America Audit Bureau of Circulations (India), a circulation-auditing organization in the India

Technology

ABC Dry Chemical, a fire extinguishing agent ABC weapon or Weapon of mass destruction Aerial bundled cable, for power lines Automatic Buffer Couplers, railway couplers Alice, Bob and Charlie (and variants), a nomenclature convention used in cryptography

Other uses

ABC Futebol Clube, a football (soccer) club based in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil Advanced Booking Charter, a kind of air travel Air batu campur, also known as ais kacang, a Malaysian dessert Alcoholic beverage control state, the American system of state regulation of alcoholic beverage sales Alien big cat or phantom cat, a large feline that has been purported to appear in regions outside its indigenous range Alphabet, a standardized set of letters American-born Chinese, people of Chinese ethnicity born in the USA

Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope (18831963), nicknamed ABC, a British World War II admiral Archbishop of Canterbury Asian brown cloud A layer of air pollution "ABC-DEF-GHI", a song from the television show Sesame Street "Always Be Closing", a sales and marketing aphorism that stresses the importance of completing as many possible sales as often as possible. Notably expounded on by the character Blake in the David Mamet-written movie Glengarry Glen Ross