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'''ABC''' are the first three letters in the [[Latin Alphabet]]

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'''ABC''' are the first three letters of the [[Latin script]].

'''ABC''' or '''abc''' may also refer to: "easy as ABC" – i.e., something that is fundamentally simple and easy.

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==Arts, entertainment and media==

===Broadcasting===

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* [[Aliw Broadcasting Corporation]], Philippine broadcast company

* [[American Broadcasting Company]], a commercial American 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

* [[TV5 Network|Associated Broadcasting Corporation]], the former name of TV5 Network, Inc., a Philippine media company

** [[TV5 (Philippine TV network)|ABC-5]], the former name of TV5, a Philippine free-to-air television network

* [[ABC (Swedish TV programme)|''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

==Media=Music===

==== Albums ====

See also [[ABC TV (disambiguation)]]

* [[ABC (Jin album)|''ABC'' (Jin album)]], a 2007 album by rapper MC Jin

* [[ABC (Kreidler album)|''ABC'' (Kreidler album)]], a 2014 album by Kreidler

* [[ABC (The Jackson 5 album)|''ABC'' (The Jackson 5 album)]], a 1970 album by The Jackson&nbsp;5

====Groups====

* [[American Broadcasting Company]]

* A.B.C., the former name of Japanese boy band [[A.B.C-Z]]

* [[America's Best Comics|America's Best Comics (DC)]] an imprint of DC Comics

* [[ABC (band)]], an English pop band

* [[Asahi Broadcasting Corporation]] in Osaka, Japan

* [[Acid Black Cherry]], a Japanese rock band

* [[Associated British Cinemas]]

* [[Active Bird Community]], an American indie rock band

* [[Associated British Corporation]], a former British television company

* [[AssociatedAlien BroadcastingBeat CompanyClub]], a televisionDanish networkpop inand theR&B Philippinesband

* [[AssociatedAndrus, BusBlackwood and Company]], a transportationChristian pop companyand inR&B Nigeria.duo

* [[Another Bad Creation]], an American hip hop and new jack swing group

* [[Audit Bureau of Circulation]]

* [[Audited Bureau of Circulations]]

* [[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]]

**[[ABC News (Australia)|ABC News and Current Affairs]]

**ABC Radio, comprising [[ABC Local Radio|Local Radio]], [[Radio National]], [[ABC Classic FM|Classic FM]], [[Triple J]], [[ABC NewsRadio]], [[ABC DiG]] and [[Radio Australia]]

**ABC Television, including [[ABC Kids]], [[ABC Rollercoaster|Rollercoaster]] and [[ABC2]]

* [[ABC (newspaper)]], a Spanish newspaper founded in 1903

== Cars ==Labels====

* [[ABC Classics]], an Australian record label

* [[ABC Records]], an American record label

====Other music====

* [[ABC (1906 automobile)]], an American car

* [[ABC song (1920 automobiledisambiguation)]], an Englishseveral carsongs

* [[ABC (1922 automobile)notation]], a planned (but never built)musical Americannotation carlanguage

* [[O2 ABC Glasgow|O₂ ABC Glasgow]], a music venue

== Music =Periodicals===

* [[ABC (albummagazine)|''ABC'' (magazine)]], an albumItalian magazine published bybetween The1960 Jacksonand 51977

** [[ABC (songnewspaper)|"''ABC"'' (songnewspaper)]], a hitSpanish songdaily fromnewspaper thatfounded albumin 1903

* [[ABC (Monterrey newspaper)|''ABC'' (Monterrey newspaper)]], a Mexican newspaper founded in 1985

* [[ABC (band)]], a 1980s new wave band

* ''[[ABC Color]]'', a Paraguayan newspaper founded in 1967

* [[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.

===Other arts, entertainment and media===

== Science ==

* [[ABC Cinemas]], a British cinema chain

* [[Advanced Bioimaging Centre]][http://www.mshri.on.ca/abc/], at [[Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute]]

* [[Alphabet book]], a type of children's book depicting the alphabet

* [[ATP-binding cassette transporter genes]]

* ''[[America's Best Comics]]'', an imprint of DC Comics

* [[Aneurysmal bone cyst]]

* [[ABC Conjecture]], an unproven aspect of [[number theory]].

==Aviation==

==Computer science==

* [[ABC Motors]], an English manufacturer of aircraft, aero engines and cars

* [[ABC (programming language)]]

* [[Advance Booking Charter]], a type of air travel

* [[ABC (CAD tool)]], A logic synthesis and verification tool invented in UC Berkeley

* [[Aircraft Builders Council]], a provider of aviation products liability insurance

* [[ABC (cipher)]], a stream cypher algorithm submitted to the eCRYPT project

* IATA airport code for [[Albacete Airport]] in Community of Castilla–La Mancha, Spain

* ABC computers, from [[Dataindustrier AB#Home and office computers|Dataindustrier AB]] of Sweden

==OtherCompanies==

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* [[ABC (first aid)]], ''Airways, breathing, circulation'' - a term used in cardiopulmonary resuscitation

===Financial===

* [[ABC (Yet Another BitTorrent Client)]]

* [[Agricultural Bank of China]], a bank in the People's Republic of China

* [[ABC islands (Alaska)]]: Admiralty Island, Baranof Island, and Chichagof Island

* [[Arab Banking Corporation]], an international bank headquartered in Bahrain

* [[ABC islands (Lesser Antilles)]]: the islands of Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao

* [[Abc notation]], a musical notation language

* [[ABC Powers]], in diplomacy, Argentina, Brazil and Colombia

* [[ABC store]], alcoholic beverage control liquor stores

* [[ABC Stores (Hawaii)|ABC Stores]], a Hawaii-based convenience store chain

* [[ABC weapons]], ''Atomic, Biological, Chemical'' warfare

* [[Abortion-breast cancer hypothesis]]

* [[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]]

* [[Alien big cat]]

* [[Already Been Chewed]] bubble gum

* [[Aluminum, brass, chrome]] - an alloy used in some model engines

* [[American-born Chinese]]

* [[American Botanical Council]]

* [[American Bowling Congress]]

* [[Artificial birth control]]

* [[Asian Badminton Confederation]]

* [[Association of British Counties]]

* [[Atanasoff-Berry Computer]], the first electronic digital computer

* [[Australian Bird Count]] project of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union

* Asian Basketball Confederation, now renamed as [[FIBA Asia]]

===Food and beverage===

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* [[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===

[[af:ABC]]

* ''[[ABC Rail Guide]]'', British railway guide published between 1853 and 2007

[[ca:ABC]]

* [[ABC motorcycles]], a British motorcycle manufacturer

[[cs:ABC (rozcestník)]]

[[da:ABC]]

===Other companies===

[[de:ABC]]

* [[ABC Learning]], a former Australian childcare business

[[et:ABC]]

* [[ABC (Lebanon)]], a chain of department stores and shopping centers, and operator of fashion boutiques in Lebanon

[[el:ABC]]

* [[ABC Stores]], a chain of convenience stores in Hawaii

[[es:ABC]]

* [[Anglo Belgian Corporation]], a diesel engine manufacturer

[[fr:ABC]]

* [[Audit Bureau of Circulations (disambiguation)]], publication circulation auditing companies

[[ko:ABC]]

** [[Audit Bureau of Circulations (India)]], a non-profit circulation-auditing organisation

[[io:ABC]]

** [[Audit Bureau of Circulations (North America)|Audit Bureau of Circulations]], former name for the North American non-profit industry organization Alliance for Audited Media

[[it:ABC]]

** [[Audit Bureau of Circulations (UK)]], a non-profit organisation

[[la:ABC]]

[[nl:ABC]]

==Economics and law==

[[ja:ABC]]

* [[ABC analysis]], an inventory categorization technique

[[no:ABC]]

* [[Activity-based costing]], an accounting method

[[pl:ABC]]

* [[Assignment for the benefit of creditors]], a concept in bankruptcy law

[[pt:ABC]]

[[ru:ABC]]

==Organizations==

[[sq:ABC]]

===Politics and unions===

[[simple:ABC]]

* [[Abantu Batho Congress]], a South African political party

[[sl:ABC]]

* [[ABC (Cuba)]], Cuban political organization 1931–1952, named after the system for labeling its clandestine cells

[[fi:ABC]]

* [[ABC Vancouver]], a municipal political party in Vancouver, Canada

[[sv:ABC]]

* [[A Better Calgary Party]], a municipal political party in Calgary, Canada

[[th:ABC]]

* [[All Basotho Convention]], a political party in Lesotho

[[vi:ABC]]

* [[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 now known as the [[Liga ng mga Barangay]]

* [[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

* [[Austin Bat Cave]], a creative writing non-profit in Texas

* [[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

* [[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|''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 (psychology)#Attitude component model|attitude component model]]

==Transportation==

* [[Active Body Control]], a type of automobile suspension technology

* [[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

==See also==

* {{intitle|ABC}}

* {{look from|ABC}}

* [[ABCC (disambiguation)]]

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