ABC (disambiguation)
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Template:Wiktionary The letters A, B, and C are the first three letters of the Latin alphabet.
Abbreviations
ABC is an abbreviation with many meanings:
- Biology
- Abacavir, a reverse transcriptase inhibitor and potential treatment for AIDS
- ATP Binding Cassette, a protein motif characteristic of a family of transporter proteins.
- Alien big cat is used in cryptozoology.
- Computing
- The Atanasoff Berry Computer, completed in 1942; also in ABC Computer
- ABC (Yet Another Bittorrent Client), a bittorrent client based on BitTornado.
- Government
- ABC weapons: Atomic, Biological, and Chemical warfare. This abbreviation has largely been superseded by NBC, where the "N" stands for "nuclear", or WMD.
- Alcoholic beverage commission and in ABC store, a liquor store run by this commission
- Health care
- In first aid, ABC is a mnemotecnic acronym for airways, breathing, circulation, the three vital functions that must be checked and maintained for a casualty during CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation); it was invented by Peter Safar.
- Mass media
- American Broadcasting Company, a radio and television network in the United States.
- Asahi Broadcasting Corporation, a radio and television broadcaster in Osaka, Japan
- Associated British Corporation, a former British television company.
- Audit Bureau of Circulations, organization for North American advertisers and publications; and a similar organization in the United Kingdom
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation, a radio and television network in Australia.
- Music
- ABC is a musical notation language, used especially in ASCII files because of its simplicity.
- People
- American-born Chinese
- Andrew Browne Cunningham, British admiral
- Archbishop of Canterbury
- Australian-Born-Chinese.
- Places
- ABC islands: Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao.
- Adventist Book Center
- Atlantic Baptist College, the former name of Atlantic Baptist University in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada.
- Rail transport
- Atlanta, Birmingham & Coast Railroad (also as AB&C, AAR reporting mark ABC)
- Slang
- Already Been Chewed, for used chewing gum
- Uncategorized businesses
- American Bowling Congress
- Atlanta Bread Company
- Miscellaneous
Part of name
ABC is also the part of many proper names without having a specific meaning as an acronym.
- Automobile markets
- ABC (1906 automobile), an American carmarket
- ABC (1920 automobile), an English carmarket
- ABC (1922 automobile), a planned (but never built) American carmarket
- ABC (B), a Belgian carmarket
- Computing
- ABC ALGOL is an extension of Algol 60.
- ABC 80 was a home computer around 1980.
- ABC programming language, an imperative programming language developed at CWI (Amsterdam, the Netherlands). It served as inspiration for the Python programming language.
- Government
- The ABC Trial - an official secrets trial in the UK
- Mass media
- Diario ABC, a newspaper in Spain.
- Music
- "ABC" is a 1970 #1 hit single recorded by The Jackson 5 for the Motown label. The ABC album it anchors includes it and the #1 hit "The Love You Save".
- ABC, the name of an early 1980s new wave music band fronted by Martin Fry.
- Another Bad Creation, early 1990s juvenile hip hop/R&B musical group.
- ABC Records is a recording label.
- Uncategorized businesses
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