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ABC are the first three letters of the Latin script.

ABC or abc may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment and media

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

Music

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

Companies

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

Organizations

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

Science and technology

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

Computing

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 (atomic, biological, and chemical), a weapon of mass destruction
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 CBRN defense (chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear)

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