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ABC are the first three letters of the English alphabet. It may refer to:

Contents 1 Broadcasting media 2 Cars 3 Companies 4 Computer science 5 Mathematics 6 Medicine and biology 7 Music 7.1 Songs and albums 7.2 Groups 7.3 Record labels 7.4 Other music 8 Organizations and projects 8.1 Ornithological 8.2 Political 8.3 Religious 8.4 Other organizations and projects 9 Places 10 Publications and media organizations 11 Other uses 12 See also

[edit] Broadcasting media

• American Broadcasting Company, a private US broadcaster
  • ABC Radio, an American radio network, currently owned by Citadel Broadcasting and formerly owned by the American Broadcasting Company
• Australian Broadcasting Corporation, national publicly funded broadcaster of Australia.
  • ABC Radio and Regional Content
  • ABC Television
  • ABC (TV station), the ABC's Canberra-based TV station
• ABC (Swedish 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

[edit] Cars

• ABC (1920 automobile), an English car
• ABC (1906 automobile), an American 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.

[edit] 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

[edit] Computer science

• ABC (block cipher), a block cipher algorithm
• ABC (computer virus), virus
• ABC (programming language)
• ABC (stream cipher), a stream cipher algorithm
• ABC (Yet Another BitTorrent Client)
• 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
• Alcatel Business Communications, a telecommunications protocol
• Atanasoff–Berry Computer, an early electronic digital computer

[edit] Mathematics

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

[edit] Medicine and biology

• 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

[edit] Music

[edit] Songs and albums

• ABC (album), an album by The Jackson 5
  • "ABC" (song), a song by The Jackson 5
• ABC (Jin album)
  • "ABC" (Jin song)
• "ABC" (Pipettes song)
• Alphabet song, or "the abc's", a song used to teach children the alphabet
• ABCs (K'naan song)

[edit] 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

[edit] Record labels

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

[edit] Other music

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

[edit] Organizations and projects

[edit] Ornithological

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

[edit] Political

• All Basotho Convention, a political party in Lesotho
• Anarchist Black Cross, an anarchist political support organization
• Anything But Conservative, also known as the "ABC campaign", 2008 Canadian political campaign during the federal election
• Association of British Counties, an advocacy group

[edit] Religious

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

[edit] 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
• Association of Brazilian Cinematographers (Associação Brasileira de Cinematografia)

[edit] 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 Curaçao
• ABC Region, an industrial area outside of São Paulo, Brazil
• Academia Británica Cuscatleca (ABC), a school in Santa Tecla, El Salvador

[edit] 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, a circulation-auditing organization in North America

[edit] 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
• ABC weapon or Weapon of mass destruction
• Activity-based costing, an accounting method
• Advanced Booking Charter, a kind of air travel
• Aerial bundled cable‎, for power lines
• 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
• American-born Chinese, people of Chinese ethnicity born in the USA
• Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope (1883-1963), British World War II admiral
• Automatic Buffer Couplers, railway couplers

[edit] See also

• "ABC-DEF-GHI", a song from the television show Sesame Street

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