AAA

AAA, Triple A, or Triple-A is a three-letter initialism or abbreviation which may refer to:

People

• A. A. Attanasio, a science fiction writer

Airports

• Anaa Airport in French Polynesia (IATA airport code AAA)
• Logan County Airport (Illinois) (FAA airport code AAA)

Arts, entertainment, and media

For businesses in arts and entertainment, see § Brands and enterprises.

Gaming

• AAA (video game industry) (pronounced "triple A"), an industry term used to describe high budget video games
• TripleA, an open source wargame

Music

Groups and labels

• AAA (band), a Japanese pop band
• Against All Authority (-AAA-), an American ska-punk band
• Angels & Airwaves, an American alternative rock band, also commonly referred to as "AVA"
• Triple A (musical group), a Dutch trance group

Works

• "AAA", the sixth track on City (Strapping Young Lad album)
• Access All Areas, a series of music CDs by the Scotland rock band Runrig

Other music

• Triple A, another name for Adult Alternative Songs, a record chart published by Billboard

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

• AAA, a Japanese manga by Haruka Fukushima
• Adult album alternative, a radio format
• Anbanavan Asaradhavan Adangadhavan, 2017 Tamil film

Brands and enterprises

• Advanced Accelerator Applications, a radiopharmaceutical company
• Ansett Australia, an Australian airline (ICAO airline code AAA)
• Associated American Artists, an art gallery and art marketing business
• Associated Argentine Artists, an Argentine film studio

Government and politics

Government agencies

• Agricultural Adjustment Administration, a US government agency created in the 1930s
• Puerto Rico Aqueducts and Sewers Authority (AAA in Spanish)

Legislation

• Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933, US federal legislation
• Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, US federal legislation

Political organizations

• Alianza Americana Anticomunista ("American Anticommunist Alliance" in Spanish), a Colombian para-military organization, 1978–1979
• Alianza Apostólica Anticomunista, in Spain
• Anti-Austerity Alliance, a political party in Ireland
• Argentine Anticommunist Alliance, an Argentinian death squad of the mid-1970s

Organizations

For political organizations, see § Political organizations.

Arts organizations

• Allied Artists Association, an exhibiting society in London founded in 1908
• American Abstract Artists, an artist-run organization formed in 1936 to promote and foster public understanding of abstract art
• American Accordionists' Association
• Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution archive in Washington, D.C.
• Asia Art Archive, a nonprofit organisation documenting the recent history of contemporary art in Asia

Automobile associations

• American Automobile Association, a motor club, also called "Triple A"
• Australian Automobile Association

Other organizations

For businesses, see § Brands and enterprises.

• Adopt-An-Alleyway Youth Empowerment Project, San Francisco, California
• Adventist Accrediting Association
• Alberta Association of Architects, a regulatory body
• American Academy of Actuaries
• American Accounting Association
• American Ambulance Association
• American Anthropological Association
• American Arbitration Association
• Antique Airplane Association
• Association of Autonomous Astronauts

Science and technology

Biology and medicine

• AAA proteins (ATPases Associated with various cellular Activities)
• Abdominal aortic aneurysm
• American Association of Anatomists
• Anti-actin antibodies
• Cavaticovelia aaa (aaa water treader), an insect from Hawaii
• Triple-A syndrome

Chemistry

• Amalgam (chemistry), represented in medieval alchemical texts with "aaa"
• Amino acid analysis
• Aromatic amino acids
• Arylalkanolamine
• Asymmetric allylic alkylation

Computing

• AAA, the highest of the three levels of web site accessibility measured by Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
• AAA chipset, hardware for a proposed Commodore Amiga computer
• AAA protocol, "Authentication, Authorization and Accounting", an access control, policy enforcement and auditing framework for computing systems
• ASCII adjust after addition, an Intel BCD opcode

Other uses in science and technology

• AAA, a rank on an alphabetical grading scale (two ranks higher than "grade A")
• AAA battery, a standard size of dry cell
• Amateur Achievement Award of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
• Analog-analog-analog, a designation for analog recording
• Angle-angle-angle, see Similarity (geometry)
• Anti-aircraft artillery

Sports

• Amateur Athletic Association of England
• American Airlines Arena, a sports and entertainment venue in Miami, Florida, and the Miami Heat's home stadium
• Arkansas Activities Association
• Asian Athletics Association
• Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide, a Mexican wrestling promotion commonly known simply as "AAA"
• Montreal AAA, Canada's oldest athletic association
• Triple-A (baseball), the highest level of North American minor league baseball

Other uses

• AAA, the best bond credit rating
• Animal assisted activity, a type of therapy that involves animals as a form of treatment
• Ghotuo language (ISO 639-3 language code aaa)
• Morse code for "aerial attacker", used in conjunction with SOS

See also

• A (disambiguation)
• AA (disambiguation)
• AAAA (disambiguation)