ASC

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ASC may refer to:

Contents 1 Organizations 1.1 Australia 1.2 Canada 1.3 Taiwan 1.4 Thailand 1.5 United Kingdom 1.6 United States 1.7 Multi-national organizations 2 Educational institutions 3 Biology or Medicine 4 Technology 5 Others

[edit] Organizations

[edit] Australia

• Australian Sports Commission
• Australian Submarine Corporation, a naval equipment manufacturer in Adelaide, South Australia

[edit] Canada

• Advertising Standards Canada
• Association des Scouts du Canada

[edit] Taiwan

• Aviation Safety Council, government agency responsible for aviation safety and investigation

[edit] Thailand

• Assets Examination Committee (Thailand), a now-defunct government agency

[edit] United Kingdom

• Association of Speakers Clubs, a group of public speaking clubs

[edit] United States

• Accredited Standards Committee, a subdivision of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
• Aeronautical Systems Center, an Air Force product center
• Airflow Sciences Corporation, an engineering consulting company in Livonia, Michigan
• American Signal Corporation, a Tornado Siren company founded in 1942
• American Society of Cinematographers
• American Society of Criminology
• American Southwest Conference, an athletic conference
• American Specialty Cars, an automobile parts manufacturer
• Atlantic Sun Conference, an athletic conference

[edit] Multi-national organizations

• Anti-Spyware Coalition, a group involved with certain computer software technology

[edit] Educational institutions

• Agnes Scott College, a private liberal arts college in Decatur, Georgia
• Aldworth Science College, a secondary school in Basingstoke, Hampshire, England
• Alfred State College, a secondary school located in Alfred, New York
• All Saints' College, any of several schools of that name
• Annenberg School for Communication
• Anglican Schools Commission

[edit] Biology or Medicine

• Adult stem cell, undifferentiated cells found in the human body that perform repair-related functions
• Agitated saline contrast, a bubbled saline solution used in an agitated saline contrast test, a diagnostic heart procedure
• Anterior subcapsular cataract, a type of clouding of the eye
• ASC Gene (apoptosis-associated speck-like protein containing a CARD), with the formal name of PYCARD, a protein

[edit] Technology

• Arcade style controller, a device used to play video games
• Area Signalling Centre, a term for describing a modern railway signal box
• .asc, a computer filename extension sometimes used for text files, as an abbreviation to ASCII
• Application Session Controller, an element of a telecommunications network
• TI Advanced Scientific Computer, a supercomputer design created by Texas Instruments Inc. in 1966

[edit] Others

• Advanced supercritical coal, a type of fossil fuel power plant
• Ambulatory surgery center, a type of health care facility
• American Solar Challenge, a solar car race now known as the North American Solar Challenge
• Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, a collection of Old English books
• The ASC (dinghy), a 16 foot sailing dinghy in use with the Sea Cadet Corps in the UK
• Ascending order, when sorting; see Collation
• Asia-Pacific Song Contest, song contest based on the Eurovision Song Contest
• Ashchurch for Tewkesbury railway station, a railway station in England (abbreviated per the National Rail code)

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