ABC

ABC are the first three letters in the Latin alphabet. ABC may also refer to the phrase "as easy as ABC", that is something that is fundamentally simple and easy.

ABC is a three-letter acronym that may also refer to:

Media

Television

• American Broadcasting Company
  • ABC Studios, the television production arm of the company
  • ABC News
• Australian Broadcasting Corporation
  • ABC News and Current Affairs
  • ABC Radio, comprising Local Radio, Radio National, Classic FM, ABC NewsRadio, ABC DiG and Radio Australia
  • ABC Television, including ABC TV and ABC2. See also: ABC Kids Channel, ABC Kids, Fly TV, Rollercoaster.
    • ABC9, the ABC's television station in Canberra
• Asahi Broadcasting Corporation in Osaka, Japan
• Associated Broadcasting Company, a television network in the Philippines
• Associated British Corporation, a former British film and television company
• ABC (Swedish news programme), the Sveriges Television regional news programme for the Stockholm region in Sweden.

Print Media

• America's Best Comics (DC) an imprint of DC Comics
• ABC (newspaper), a Spanish newspaper founded in 1903
• ABC book, an Alphabet book

Other

• Associated British Cinemas
• Audit Bureau of Circulation
• Audited Bureau of Circulations

Cars

• ABC (1906 automobile), an American car
• ABC (1920 automobile), an English car
• ABC (1922 automobile), a planned (but never built) American car
• ABC (1999 automotive innovation), Active Body Control, introduced in the 1999 Mercedes-Benz CL500 coupé on the IAA'99 (Internationale Automobilausstellung) in Frankfurt.

Music

• ABC, an album by Jin
• ABC (album), an album by The Jackson 5
  • "ABC" (song), a hit song from that album
• ABC (band), a 1980s UK pop band
• ABC (Pipettes song)
• ABC Records
• ABC-DEF-GHI, a song sung by Big Bird of Sesame Street
• The Alphabet Song, in which the first words are "ABC"
• ABC Glasgow, a music venue in Glasgow.
• ABC Classics, a record label
• Abc notation, a musical notation language
• Another Bad Creation, an R&B/rap group sometimes referred to as ABC

Science

• Advanced Bioimaging Centre, at Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute
• ATP-binding cassette transporter genes, one of the largest families of genes
• Aneurysmal bone cyst, a lesion
• ABC flow - specific flow in hydrodynamics, supports dynamo
• abc conjecture, an unproven aspect of mathematical number theory.
• The ABC Model of Flower Development, The ABC Model of Flower Development.
• ABC (medical), Airways, breathing, circulation - a term used in cardiopulmonary resuscitation
• ABC Dry Chemical, the most common extinguishing agent in fire extinguishers
• Abortion-breast cancer hypothesis
• Approximate Bayesian Computation

Computer science

• Atanasoff–Berry Computer, one of the first electronic digital computers
• ABC (programming language)
• ABC (stream cipher), a stream cipher algorithm submitted to the eCRYPT project
• ABC (block cipher), a block cipher algorithm by Dieter Schmidt
• ABC 80, ABC 800 etc.. computers, from Dataindustrier AB of Sweden
• Abstract base class, a programming construct supporting abstraction, a key component of object-oriented programming

Places

• ABC countries or ABC Powers: a political term used to refer to Argentina, Brazil and Chile
• ABC Region (also known as ABCD): an industrial area outside of São Paulo
• ABC islands (Alaska): Admiralty Island, Baranof Island, and Chichagof Island
• ABC islands (Lesser Antilles): the islands of Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao

Other

• Abstinence, be faithful, use a condom or ABC strategy, a program favored by organizations aiming to defeat AIDS in Africa and those fighting the spread of sexually transmitted diseases
• Anarchist Black Cross, a world-wide anarchist political support organization
• Cuba, cell based resistance organization against Gerardo Machado in 1930s
• ABC (Yet Another BitTorrent Client)
• The A.B.C. Murders, a novel by Agatha Christie
• ABC store, alcoholic beverage control liquor stores
• ABC Stores, a Hawaii-based convenience store chain
• ABC Warehouse, a Michigan-based appliance and electronics chain.
• ABC weapons, Atomic, Biological, Chemical warfare
• Acadian Baptist Center, a Camp and Retreat Center in Eunice, Louisiana
• Acceptable behaviour contract, part of the British ASBO system
• Activity Based Costing, a financial cost allocation method
• Advanced Booking Charter flights
• Aerated Bread Company, a 19th-20th century British bakery and tea room chain
• African Bird Club
• African Black Coalition
• Aggregate base course, a substrate used in construction for road paving
• Air batu campur, a Malaysian shaved ice dessert.
• Airway, Breathing, Circulation
• Alien big cat
• The California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control
• American Bird Conservancy
• American-born Chinese
• American Bowling Congress
• Appalachian Brewing Company, a brewery in Pennsylvania, USA
• Arab Banking Corporation
• Artificial birth control
• Asian Badminton Confederation
• Association of British Counties
• Atlanta Bread Company, a bakery/café
• Australian Bird Count project of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union
• Asian Basketball Confederation, now renamed as FIBA Asia
• All Basotho Convention, Lesotho