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Abc

Abbreviations

• Biology
• Abacavir, a reverse transcriptase inhibitor and potential treatment for AIDS
• ATP Binding Cassette, a protein motif characteristic of a family of transporter proteins.
• Alien big cat is used in cryptozoology.

• Computing
• The Atanasoff Berry Computer, completed in 1942; also in ABC Computer

• Government
• ABC weapons: Atomic, Biological, and Chemical warfare. This abbreviation has largely been superceded by NBC, where the "N" stands for "nuclear", or WMD.
• Alcoholic beverage commission and in ABC store, a liquor store run by this commission

• Health care
• In first aid, ABC is a mnemotecnic acronym for airways, breathing, circulation, the three vital functions that must be checked and maintained for a casualty during CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation); it was invented by Peter Safar.

• Mass media
• American Broadcasting Company, a radio and television network in the United States.
• Asahi Broadcasting Corporation, a radio and television broadcaster in Japan
• Associated British Corporation, a former British television company.
• Audit Bureau of Circulations, organization for North American advertisers and publications
• Australian Broadcasting Corporation, a radio and television network in Australia.

• Music
• ABC is a musical notation language, used especially in ASCII files because of its simplicity.

• People
• American-born Chinese
• Andrew Browne Cunningham, British admiral
• Archbishop of Canterbury
• Australian-Born-Chinese.

• Places
• ABC islands: Aruba, Bonaire and Curaao.
• Adventist Book Center
• Atlantic Baptist College, the former name of Atlantic Baptist University in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada.

• Slang
• Already Been Chewed, for used chewing gum

• Uncategorized businesses
• American Bowling Congress
• Atlanta, Birmingham & Coast Railroad (also as AB&C)
• Atlanta Bread Company

• Miscellaneous
• Activity Based Costing
• Anarchist Black Cross
• AAR reporting mark ABC)
• Association of British Counties
• Aural brevity code

Part of name

• Automobile markets
• ABC (1906 automobile), an American carmarket
• ABC (1920 automobile), an English carmarket
• ABC (1922 automobile), a planned (but never built) American carmarket
• ABC (B), a Belgian carmarket

• Computing
• ABC ALGOL is an extension of Algol 60.
• ABC 80 was a home computer around 1980.
• ABC programming language, an imperative programming language developed at CWI (Amsterdam, the Netherlands). It served as inspiration for the Python programming language.

• Government
• The ABC Trial - an official secrets trial in the UK

• Literature
• The ABC Murders - a novel by Agatha Christie

• Mass media
• Diario ABC, a newspaper in Spain.

• Mathematics
• Abc Conjecture, a conjecture in number theory

• Music
• "ABC" is a 1970 #1 hit single recorded by The Jackson 5 for the Motown label. The ABC album it anchors includes it and the #1 hit "The Love You Save".
• ABC, the name of an early 1980s new wave music band fronted by Martin Fry.
• Another Bad Creation, early 1990s juvenile hip hop/R&B musical group.
• ABC Records is a recording label.

• Uncategorized businesses
• ABC Motors

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