ABC

ABC are the first three letters of the Latin script.

ABC or abc may also refer to:

Broadcasting

 * Aliw Broadcasting Corporation, Philippine broadcast company
 * American Broadcasting Company, a commercial U.S. TV broadcaster
 * Disney–ABC Television Group, the former name of the parent organization of ABC
 * Australian Broadcasting Corporation, one of the national publicly funded broadcasters of Australia
 * ABC Television (Australian TV network), the national television network of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
 * ABC TV (Australian TV channel), the flagship TV station of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
 * ABC Canberra (TV station), Canberra, and other ABC TV local stations in state capitals
 * ABC Australia (Southeast Asian TV channel), an international pay TV channel
 * ABC Radio (disambiguation), several radio stations
 * Associated Broadcasting Corporation, the former name of TV5 Network, Inc., a Philippine media company
 * ABC-5, the former name of TV5, a Philippine free-to-air television network
 * ABC (Swedish TV programme), a former Swedish regional news programme
 * ABC Weekend TV, a former British television company
 * Asahi Broadcasting Corporation, a Japanese commercial television and radio station
 * Associated Broadcasting Company, a former name of Associated Television, a British television company
 * African Barter Company, a pan-African barter broadcast syndication company

Albums

 * ABC (Jin album), a 2007 album by rapper MC Jin
 * ABC (Kreidler album), a 2014 album by Kreidler
 * ABC (The Jackson 5 album), a 1970 album by The Jackson 5

Groups

 * A.B.C., the former name of Japanese boy band A.B.C-Z
 * ABC (band), an English pop band
 * Acid Black Cherry, a Japanese rock band
 * Alien Beat Club, a Danish pop and R&B band
 * Another Bad Creation, an American hip hop and new jack swing group

Labels

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

Other music

 * ABC song (disambiguation), several songs
 * ABC notation, a musical notation language
 * O2 ABC Glasgow, a music venue

Periodicals

 * ABC (magazine), an Italian magazine published between 1960 and 1977
 * ABC (newspaper), a Spanish daily newspaper founded in 1903
 * ABC (Monterrey newspaper), a Mexican newspaper founded in 1985
 * ABC Color, a Paraguayan newspaper founded in 1967

Other arts, entertainment and media

 * ABC Cinemas, a UK cinema chain
 * Alphabet book, a type of children's book depicting the alphabet
 * America's Best Comics, an imprint of DC Comics

Financial

 * Agricultural Bank of China, a bank in the People's Republic of China
 * Arab Banking Corporation, an international bank headquartered in Bahrain

Food and beverage

 * ABC (food), an Indonesian-based food division of the H. J. Heinz Company
 * Aerated Bread Company, a British bakery and tea-room chain
 * Alcoholic Beverage Control (disambiguation), or Alcoholic Beverage Commission, U.S. states' regulation over alcohol sales
 * Appalachian Brewing Company, an American brewery

Transport

 * ABC Motors, an English manufacturer of aircraft, aero engines and cars
 * ABC Rail Guide, British railway guide published between 1853 and 2007
 * ABC motorcycles, a British motorcycle manufacturer

Other companies

 * ABC Learning, a former Australian childcare business
 * ABC (Lebanon), a chain of department stores and shopping centers, and operator of fashion boutiques in Lebanon
 * ABC Stores, a chain of convenience stores in Hawaii
 * Aircraft Builders Council, a provider of aviation products liability insurance
 * Anglo Belgian Corporation, a diesel engine manufacturer
 * Audit Bureau of Circulations (disambiguation), publication circulation auditing companies
 * Audit Bureau of Circulations (India), a non-profit circulation-auditing organisation
 * Audit Bureau of Circulations, former name for the North American non-profit industry organization Alliance for Audited Media
 * Audit Bureau of Circulations (UK), a non-profit organisation

Economics and law

 * ABC analysis, an inventory categorization technique
 * Activity-based costing, an accounting method
 * Assignment for the benefit of creditors, a concept in bankruptcy law

Politics and unions

 * Abantu Batho Congress, a South African political party
 * ABC (Cuba), Cuban political organization 1931–1952, named after the system for labeling its clandestine cells
 * ABC Vancouver, a municipal political party in Canada
 * All Basotho Convention, a political party in Lesotho
 * Alliance for Barangay Concerns, a political party in the Philippines
 * American Bakery and Confectionery Workers' International Union, a predecessor of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers' International Union
 * Americans Battling Communism, an anti-communist organization founded in 1947
 * Anarchist Black Cross, an anarchist support organization
 * Anything But Conservative, a 2008 Canadian political campaign
 * Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council, a local government council in Northern Ireland
 * Association of Barangay Captains or Association of Barangay Councils, former names of the Philippine organization League of Barangays
 * Association of British Counties, a non-party-political society

Religious

 * American Baptist Convention, former name of American Baptist Churches USA
 * Association of Baptist Churches in Ireland, in Ireland and the United Kingdom

Sports

 * ABC Futebol Clube, a football (soccer) club based in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
 * American Bowling Congress, which merged in 2005 with other bowling organizations to form the United States Bowling Congress
 * Association of Boxing Commissions, a North American not-for-profit professional boxing and mixed martial arts organization
 * Indianapolis ABCs, a 1900s Negro league baseball team

Other organizations

 * Academia Británica Cuscatleca, a school in Santa Tecla, El Salvador
 * Accessible Books Consortium, a subunit of the World Intellectual Property Organization
 * Afrikan Black Coalition, a University of California student organization
 * American Bird Conservancy, a non-profit membership organization
 * Andres Bonifacio College, in Dipolog City, Philippines
 * Association of Black Cardiologists, a North American non-profit
 * Australian Bird Count, a project of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union

Places

 * ABC countries, Argentina, Brazil, and Chile
 * ABC Islands (Alaska), Admiralty Island, Baranof Island, and Chichagof Island
 * ABC islands (Leeward Antilles), Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao
 * ABC Region, an industrial area outside of São Paulo, Brazil
 * Albacete Airport, a joint civilian/military airport serving Albacete, Spain (IATA: ABC)
 * Altnabreac railway station, Scotland, by National Rail code
 * Appa Balwant Chowk, area of Pune, India, noted for its bookshops

Biology and medicine

 * Abacavir, an antiretroviral drug used to treat HIV/AIDS
 * 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
 * Alien big cat, a large feline outside its indigenous range
 * Aneurysmal bone cyst, a kind of lesion
 * ATP-binding cassette transporter, a transmembrane protein

Hardware

 * ABC, a line of computers by Dataindustrier AB
 * Acorn Business Computer, a series of microcomputers announced at the end of 1983 by the British company Acorn Computers
 * Atanasoff–Berry computer, an early electronic digital computer

Software

 * ABC (computer virus), a memory-resident, file-infecting computer virus
 * ABC (programming language), a programming language and environment
 * ABC (stream cipher), a stream cipher algorithm
 * Abstract base class, a programming language concept
 * Artificial bee colony algorithm, a search algorithm
 * .abc, several file formats

Mathematics

 * ABC formula
 * Approximate Bayesian computation, a family of statistical techniques
 * abc conjecture, a concept in number theory

Other science and technology

 * ABC dry chemical, a fire extinguishing agent
 * ABC weapon, a weapon of mass destruction (atomic, biological, and chemical); now Chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear
 * Accelerated bridge construction, a technique for building bridges
 * Aerial bundled cable, for power lines
 * Airborne Cigar, a British military electronic countermeasure system used during World War II
 * Atomic, biological, and chemical defense, now rendered as chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear defense

Psychology

 * ABC data collection, a descriptive functional behavior assessment method in applied behavior analysis
 * Affective-behavioral-cognitive model, an attitude component model

Transportation

 * Active Body Control, a type of automobile suspension technology
 * Advance Booking Charter, a type of air travel
 * Automatic Buffer Couplers, a type of railway couplers

Cars

 * ABC (1906 automobile), an American car by Albert Bledsoe Cole
 * ABC (1920 automobile), an English car by ABC Motors
 * ABC (1922 automobile), a planned American car

Other uses

 * ABC strategy, for "abstinence, be faithful, use a condom", a sex-education strategy
 * ABC trial of Crispin Aubrey, John Berry and Duncan Campbell in 1978 in the United Kingdom
 * Abecedarium, an inscription consisting of the letters of an alphabet
 * Air batu campur, also known as ais kacang, a Malaysian dessert
 * American-born Chinese, people of Chinese ethnicity born in the United States
 * Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope (1883–1963), nicknamed ABC, British WWII admiral
 * Architectural, building and construction, an industry; for example, see Industry Foundation Classes
 * Australian-born Chinese, people of Chinese ethnicity born in Australia