ASC

ASC may refer to:

Organizations

Australia

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

Canada

• Advertising Standards Canada
• Association des Scouts du Canada
• Airsoft Canada

Indonesia

• ASEAN Security Community

Pakistan

• Army Service Corps, a corps of Pakistan Army

Republic of China (Taiwan)

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

Thailand

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

United Kingdom

• Association of Speakers Clubs, a group of public speaking clubs
• Royal Army Service Corps, unit of the British Army, ASC before 1918, RASC after
• Avon and Somerset Constabulary, the territorial police force covering Avon and Somerset, England.

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 Society for Cytotechnology, a professional organization dedicated to the field of cytotechnology
• American Southwest Conference, an athletic conference
• American Specialty Cars, an automobile parts manufacturer
• Armed Services Committee, a committee of the United States Senate overseeing the U.S. Military
• Atlantic Sun Conference, an athletic conference
• ASC Games, or American Softworks Corporation, a computer and video game publishing company

Multi-national organizations

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

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 (disambiguation), any of several schools of that name
• Annenberg School for Communication (disambiguation), multiple schools of that name
• Anglican Schools Commission
• Andres Soriano College, located in Surigao del Sur, Philippines

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

Software testing

• ASC is an API Sanity Checker

Technology

• Active Stability Control, a term used by Mitsubishi to refer to their electronic stability control system
• Arcade style controller, a device used to play video games
• Arc-Suppression Coil, device used in Alternating Current power transmission systems to limit the current flowing to ground at the location of a fault almost to zero by setting up a reactive current to ground that balances the capacitive current to ground flowing from the lines. Also known as Petersen coil.
• Area Signalling Centre, a term for describing a modern railway signal box
• Application Session Controller, an element of a telecommunications network
• .asc, a computer filename extension sometimes used for text files, as an abbreviation to ASCII (also used by ASCII Armor in the programs GPG and PGP to convert binary data into ASCII)
• Automatic Stability Control, a term used by BMW Motorrad to refer to their traction control system
• TI Advanced Scientific Computer, a supercomputer design created by Texas Instruments Inc. in 1966
• Auto SoftCapping, mainframe software for controlling capping in a sub-capacity pricing environment
• The Association for Survey Computing

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
• 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
• Asian Science Camp, an annual science forum for pre-collegiate and collegiate students of Asia.
• Ashchurch for Tewkesbury railway station, a railway station in England (abbreviated per the National Rail code)
• Altered state of consciousness
• ASC, a British Jazz Band
• Antwerps schermcentrum (Antwerp Fencing Center), an Antwerp based fencing club
• Autism Spectrum Condition
• After Sozin's Comet, dating used in Avatar: The Last Airbender universe

See also

• All pages beginning with "ASC"
• All pages with titles containing "ASC"
• ASK (disambiguation)