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ABC may stand for:
Broadcasting media
- American Broadcasting Company, an American television network
- ABC Radio, an American radio network, formerly owned by the American Broadcasting Company
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation, an Australian Government media broadcaster, including Australian ABC radio
- ABC Television, the television division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
- ABC (TV station), the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Canberra-based TV station
- ABC HD (Australia), the (national) high definition broadcast of Sydney's ABC1
- ABC (Swedish news programme)
- ABC1, public television channel in Australia
- 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
Cars
- ABC (1906 automobile), an American car
- ABC (1920 automobile), an English car
- ABC (1922 automobile), a planned (but never built) American car
- ABC (1999 automotive innovation), Active Body Control, a type of automobile suspension technology
Companies
- ABC Stores (Hawaii), a chain of convenience stores
- ABC Learning Centres, An Australian child care business that provides ealy childhood education programs
- ABC Group, a department store
- Agricultural Bank of China, one of the "Big Four" banks in the People's Republic of China
- Appalachian Brewing Company, an American brewery
- Arab Banking Corporation, with headquarters in the "ABC Tower" in Bahrain
- Associated British Cinemas, a UK cinema chain
- Aerated Bread Company, a former British bakery and tea-room chain, active from 1862 until the 1980s
- Atlanta Bread Company, a bakery and café founded in 1993 in Atlanta, Georgia, and then expanding to over a hundred locations in the United States
Computer science
- ABC (block cipher), a block cipher algorithm
- ABC (programming language)
- ABC (stream cipher), a stream cipher algorithm
- ABC (Yet Another BitTorrent Client)
- Abstract base class, a programming construct
- Atanasoff–Berry Computer, an early electronic digital computers
- Acorn Business Computer
- Several computer models designed by Dataindustrier AB of Sweden
Mathematics
- abc conjecture, a concept in number theory
- Approximate Bayesian computation, a family of statistical techniques
Medicine and biology
- ABC (medicine), a mnemonic acronym for "Airways, Breathing, Circulation"
- ABC transporter, a transmembrane protein
- 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
Music
Songs and albums
- ABC (album), by The Jackson 5
- "ABC" (song), a song by The Jackson 5
- ABC (Jin album)
- "ABC" (Pipettes song)
- "ABC-DEF-GHI", a song from the television show Sesame Street
- Alphabet song, any of several songs used to teach children the alphabet
Groups
- ABC (band), a UK New Wave band
- Another Bad Creation, an American R&B and rap musical group
Record labels
- ABC Classics, an Australian record label
- ABC Records, an American record label
Other music
- ABC Glasgow, a music venue
- Abc notation, a musical notation language
Organizations and projects
Political
- All Basotho Convention, a political party in Lesotho
- Anarchist Black Cross, an anarchist political support organization
- Association of British Counties, an advocacy group
- ABC campaign, also known as "Anything But Conservative", 2008 Canadian political campaign during the federal election
Religious
- Association of Baptist Churches in Ireland, a group of autonomous churches in the United Kingdom (Northern Ireland) and the Republic of Ireland
Ornithological
- African Bird Club, a British ornithological charity
- American Bird Conservancy, a charitable organization
- Australian Bird Count, a project of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union
Sports
- A governing body for the sport of bowling, American Bowling Congress
- A governing body for the sport of badminton, Asian Badminton Confederation
- A badminton tournament, Asian Badminton Championships
Other organizations
- African Black Coalition, a University of California student organization
- Association of Black Cardiologists (ABC), partner association of iMedicor
Places
- ABC countries or "ABC Powers", 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 Curaçao
- ABC Region, an industrial area outside of São Paulo, Brazil
- Academia Británica Cuscatleca (ABC), is a selective, mixed bi-lingual and bi-cultural school from pre-Kinder to grade 12 situated in Santa Tecla, El Salvador
Publications
- America's Best Comics (DC), an imprint of DC Comics
- ABC (newspaper), a Spanish newspaper founded in 1903
- Alphabet book, any of several children's books depicting the alphabet
- Audit Bureau of Circulations, a circulation-auditing organization in North America
- ABC (Audit Bureau of Circulations UK), a circulation-auditing organization in the UK and Ireland
Other uses
- ABC Dry Chemical, a fire extinguishing agent
- ABC Futebol Clube, a football (soccer) club based in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
- ABC strategy for "Abstinence, be faithful, use a condom", a sex education strategy
- Activity-based costing, an accounting method
- Advanced Booking Charter, a kind of air travel
- Alcoholic beverage control state, the American system of state regulation of alcoholic beverage sales
- Alien big cat, unlikely sightings of large felines in areas where they would not be expected
- American-born Chinese, an ethnic categorization
- Air batu campur, or Ais kacang, a Malaysian/Singaporean dessert
- ABC weapons, a classification referring to Atomic, Biological, and/or Chemical warfare. See weapon of mass destruction
- ABC, nickname of Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope (1883-1963), British World War II admiral
- Automatic Buffer Coupler, a type of coupling
- List of programs broadcast by ABC Television
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