Ace (disambiguation)

An ace is a playing card.

Ace(s), ACE(S) and variants may also refer to:

Places

 * Ace, ancient name of Acre, Israel
 * Ace, Texas, United States, an unincorporated community
 * ACE Basin, the estuaries of the Ashepoo, Combahee and Edisto Rivers in South Carolina, United States
 * Aces (parish), Candamo, Spain
 * Aces (river), a river of Asia

People and fictional characters

 * Ace (name), includes people and fictional characters with the given name, nickname, surname, ring name or stage name
 * Ace (musician), guitarist with Skunk Anansie
 * Warren Furman, Ace from Gladiators

Awards

 * ACE Awards (Award for Cable Excellence)

Comics

 * Ace Comics, a 1937-1959 comic book series
 * Ace Magazines (comics), a 1940-1956 a comic-book and pulp-magazine publishing company

Groups

 * Ace (band), a 1970s British rock group
 * A.C.E (South Korean band), a South Korean boy group
 * The Aces (blues band), a 1950s–1970s American group
 * The Aces (indie pop band), a 2010s American group
 * The Aces (Jamaican group), a 1965–1980s group, associated with Desmond Dekker
 * The Aces (rock and roll band), a British group formed in the 1950s

Labels

 * Ace Records (United Kingdom)
 * Ace Records (United States)

Albums and songs

 * Ace (Scooter album)
 * Ace (Taemin EP)
 * Ace (Ian Van Dahl album)
 * Ace (Bob Weir album)
 * Aces (album), by Suzy Bogguss
 * "Aces" (song), by Suzy Bogguss

Video games

 * Ace (video game), stylized as ACE, a 1985 flight simulator video game by Cascade Games
 * A.C.E. Another Century's Episode, a 2005 video game for the PlayStation 2
 * Ace Online, a flight-based online role-playing game

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

 * Ace (film)
 * Ace (musical) 2006
 * ACE (games magazine)
 * Ace (Wild Cards), a class of characters in the Wild Cards science fiction universe
 * Ace Cinema, cinema in the London Borough of Harrow

Brands and enterprises

 * Ace (brand), Latin American brand name for Tide detergent
 * Ace Books, 1952–present, an American publisher of science fiction and fantasy
 * Ace Cinemas, an Australian cinema chain
 * Ace Hardware, an American retailers' cooperative
 * ACE Limited, a Swiss insurance company
 * Ace Radio, an Australian company
 * ACE Team, a Chilean video game company
 * Ace Tone, a musical instrument company
 * ACeS, a regional satellite-telecommunications company based in Jakarta, Indonesia
 * Aces Studio, a former video game company
 * Rockman Ace, a guitar amplifier in the Rockman series
 * Action Computer Enterprise, a defunct microcomputer company
 * Accelerated Christian Education, an educational products company
 * Action Construction Equipment, an Indian company

Government

 * ACE Electoral Knowledge Network, a web portal
 * Agriculture in Concert with the Environment, a US Environmental Protection Agency program
 * American Clean Energy and Security Act (2009)
 * Automation of Central Excise and Service Tax (ACES), an alternative name for India's Central Excise Mission Mode Project

Military

 * ACES Meet, a multilateral air exercise
 * Ace (military)
 * Flying ace, a military aviator credited with shooting down a set number of enemy aircraft
 * Panzer ace, an ahistorical, popular culture term to describe successful German tank commanders
 * Allied Command Europe, central command of NATO forces in Europe
 * Aviation combat element, the air arm of the US Marines Air-Ground Task Force
 * Galil ACE, an assault rifle
 * HMS Ace (P414), a British submarine
 * M9 Armored Combat Earthmover, a tracked vehicle
 * United States Army Corps of Engineers

Organizations

 * Aberdeen Community Energy
 * Advisory Committee of Experts on Slavery, abolitionist organization at the League of Nations
 * Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment
 * Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals
 * Alternatives for Community and Environment, a Boston environmental justice organization
 * American Cinema Editors
 * American Coaster Enthusiasts
 * American College of Epidemiology
 * American Copy Editors Society
 * American Council on Education
 * Animal Charity Evaluators
 * Anime Contents Expo, a trade fair
 * Arts Council England
 * Association for Comparative Economic Studies
 * Association for Consciousness Exploration
 * Association for Consultancy and Engineering
 * Association of European Film Archives and Cinematheques (French: Association des Cinémathèques Européennes)
 * Association of Latin Entertainment Critics (Spanish: Asociación de Cronistas de Espectáculos de Nueva York)
 * Assyria Council of Europe, a lobbying organization based in Brussels
 * Astronaute Club Européen, a French space tourism association
 * Australian College of Educators
 * Auxiliary Campus Enterprises and Services, an organization at Alfred College, US

Education

 * Alternative Center for Excellence, a school in Danbury, Connecticut, US
 * American College of Education, an online college based in Indianapolis, Indiana, US
 * Aviation Centre of Excellence, a department of Confederation College in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada

Aerospace

 * Advanced Cryogenic Evolved Stage, a proposed rocket 2nd stage for ULA
 * Advanced Composition Explorer, a NASA satellite
 * Advanced Crew Escape Suit, an astronaut suit
 * Atomic Clock Ensemble in Space, a European Space Agency project
 * Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment, a project of the Canadian satellite SCISAT-1
 * Asia Cellular Satellite system, a precursor of the Indonesian satellite company PT Pasifik Satelit Nusantara

Biology, chemistry, and healthcare

 * A.C.E. mixture, an historical anesthetic
 * Angiotensin-converting enzyme, a central component of the renin–angiotensin system (RAS), which controls blood pressure
 * ACE inhibitor, a drug that lowers blood pressure
 * Ace K, acesulfame potassium, an artificial sweetener
 * ACE unit (Acute Care of Elderly), a type of hospital facility
 * Acepromazine, an antipsychotic drug used primarily in animals
 * ACES (buffer), one of Good's buffers
 * ACES (nutritional supplement), containing vitamins A, C, E and selenium
 * Adverse childhood experiences
 * Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination

Computing

 * ACE (compressed file format)
 * Ace (editor), a code editor written in JavaScript
 * ACE (editor), a desktop-based collaborative editor
 * ACE (genomic file format)
 * ACES (computational chemistry), a software package
 * Access Control Entry, part of an access control list
 * Acehnese language (ISO 639 code)
 * Adaptive Communication Environment, an open-source network-programming framework
 * Advanced Computerized Execution System, a stock-trading system
 * Advanced Computing Environment, an early 1990s initiative for commodity computing hardware
 * Agent-based computational economics
 * Arbitrary code execution
 * ASCII Compatible Encoding, a prefix related to internationalized domain names
 * Asynchronous Compute Engine, a component defined in AMD's Graphics Core Next for ATI-type products
 * Automatic Computing Engine, a 1952 British computer
 * Automatic Content Extraction, an information-extraction technology-development program
 * Jupiter Ace, a 1980s British computer

Other uses in science and technology

 * Ace (quark model), an obsolete term for quark
 * ACE (cable system), a submarine communications cable
 * Academy Color Encoding System (ACES), a proposed color image encoding
 * ACE experiment, the Antiproton Cell Experiment hosted at CERN
 * Accumulated cyclone energy, commonly known as (ACE), metric used by various agencies to express the energy released by a tropical cyclone
 * Aggregative Contingent Estimation, a program of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency
 * Alternating conditional expectations, an algorithm in nonparametric regression.
 * Alternative Chassis Engineering, a UK bus manufacturer, builder of the ACE Cougar
 * Attempto Controlled English, a controlled natural language from the University of Zurich

Terminology

 * Ace (baseball), a team's best starting pitcher
 * Ace (golf), a hole in one
 * Ace (pickleball), a serve that is not returned by the receiver
 * Ace (tennis), a point won by the server without contest
 * Ace formation, in American football

Teams

 * Alaska Aces (ECHL), an American ice hockey team
 * Alaska Aces (PBA), a Philippine basketball team
 * Alexandria Aces, a defunct American baseball team in Louisiana
 * Asheville Aces, a defunct American ice hockey team
 * Belle Vue Aces, an English motorcycle speedway team
 * Cornwall Aces, a Canadian ice hockey team playing 1993-1996
 * Dallas Aces, the world's first professional bridge team
 * Evansville Purple Aces, a college team of the University of Evansville
 * Las Vegas Aces, an American basketball team
 * Lower Merion High School Aces, the athletic teams at the school in suburban Philadelphia
 * Melbourne Aces, an Australian baseball team founded 2009
 * Northeast League Aces, a Canadian-American baseball team
 * Quebec Aces, a Canadian ice hockey team playing 1928-1971
 * Reno Aces, an American baseball team in Nevada
 * Victoria Aces, an Australian baseball team founded 1934

Automotive

 * Ace (1913 automobile), a 1912-1916 British car
 * Ace (1920 automobile), a 1920-1922 American car
 * AC Ace, a 1953-1963 English car
 * Atlantic City Expressway, a New Jersey toll road which is the main route between Atlantic City and Philadelphia
 * Tata Ace, an Indian mini-truck introduced 2005
 * Ace Motor Corporation, a 1919–1927 American motorcycle company

Aviation

 * Ace Aircraft Manufacturing Company
 * ACE Aviation Holdings, former parent company of Air Canada
 * ACES Colombia, Aerolíneas Centrales de Colombia, a defunct airline
 * Aircraft Engineering Corporation, now defunct
 * Edel Ace, a South Korean paraglider design
 * ACE, IATA code of Lanzarote Airport, Canary Islands, Spain

Rail

 * Altamont Corridor Express, a California train service
 * Atlantic City Express Service, a New York-New Jersey train service
 * Atlantic Coast Express, an England train service
 * Kintetsu 22600 series "Ace", a Japanese train type
 * EMD SD70ACe, an American diesel-electric locomotive commonly referred to as an "Ace"

Other uses

 * Action for Climate Empowerment, a United Nations term
 * Ace, a term for an asexual person