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ABC is an abbreviation with many meanings:

• The Roman alphabet, of which A, B, and C are the first three letters.

• In mass media,
  • The radio and television network American Broadcasting Company.
  • The radio and television network Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
  • The former British television company Associated British Corporation.
  • The Spanish newspaper Diario ABC.
  • The television broadcaster Asahi Broadcasting Corporation (Japan)
  • Audit Bureau of Circulations, organization for North American advertisers and publications

• In computing,
  • ABC is an imperative language and programming environment developed at CWI (Amsterdam, the Netherlands). It served as inspiration for the Python programming language.
  • The Atanasoff Berry Computer, completed in 1942.
  • ABC ALGOL is an extension of Algol 60.
  • ABC 80 was a home computer around 1980.

• In music,
  • ABC is a musical notation language, used especially in ASCII files because of its simplicity.
  • ABC is a landmark album by The Jackson Five, including future pop star Michael Jackson.
  • ABC is the name of an early 1980s new wave music band fronted by Martin Fry.
  • ABC Records is a recording label.

• in first aid, ABC is a mnemotecnic acronym for airway, breath, circulation, the three vital functions that must be checked and maintained for a casualty; it was invented by Peter Safar.

• Nickname of Andrew Browne Cunningham, British admiral
• ABC weapons: Atomic, Biological, and Chemical warfare. This abbreviation has largely been superseded by NBC, where the "N" stands for "nuclear".
• ABC stands for Atlantic Baptist College, the former name of Atlantic Baptist University in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada.
• ABC stands for Airways, Breathing, Circulation in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).
• The Abc Conjecture is a conjecture in number theory.
• ABC is used in cryptozoology as an acronym for alien big cat.
• ABC can stand for American-born Chinese or Australian-Born-Chinese.
• ABC islands: Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao.
• An alcoholic beverage commission of a U.S. state or province of Canada, which often allowed only government-run ABC stores to sell liquor
• The ABC Murders - a novel by Agatha Christie
• The ABC Trial - an official secrets trial in the UK
• Atlanta, Birmingham & Coast Railway (also as AB&C)
• Anarchist Black Cross
• Adventist Book Center

ABC was also the name of four markets of automobile.

• 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