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Look up ABC in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

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. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary (a portmanteau of wiki and dictionary) is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 150 languages. ... The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world today. ...


ABC is a three-letter acronym that may also refer to: TLA is a three-lettered abbreviation for Three-Letter Abbreviation. ...

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Media

Television

The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) operates television and radio networks in the United States and is also shown on basic cable in Canada. ... ABC Studios (formerly Touchstone Television Productions, LLC and ABC Television Studio) is a television production company formed in 1989 and renamed in May 2007 to its latest inception. ... ABC News Special Report ident, circa 2006 ABC News is a division of American television and radio network ABC, owned by The Walt Disney Company. ... The Australian Broadcasting Corporation or ABC is Australias national non-profit public broadcaster. ... ABC News opening titles ABC News is a national news service produced by the News and Current Affairs division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. ... Three radio networks named ABC Radio have existed: ABC Radio, United States ABC Local Radio and Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Radio, Australia ABC Radio (México) Category: ... ABC Local Radio is a network of publicly-owned radio stations in Australia, operated by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. ... ABC Radio National is an Australia-wide radio network with many various programs, involving news and current affairs, arts, music, society, science, drama and comedy. ... ABC Classic FM is Australian classical radio station available in major centres around the country. ... ABC NewsRadio is an Australian Broadcasting Corporation radio service devoted to delivering parliamentary proceedings, including Question Time, live and 24-hour news updates and information when parliament is not in session. ... DiG is a digital radio service operated by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation which began in November 2002. ... ABC Radio Australia is the international shortwave radio service operated by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Australias public broadcaster. ... ABC Television is a service of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation which began in 1956. ... The ABC or Australian Broadcasting Corporation is the national, Australia. ... This Australian channel is not related to ABC1 in the United Kingdom. ... The ABC Kids Channel was a Digital TV channel in Australia run by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, while the brand for childrens programming on ABC TV and ABC2 is called ABC Kids . ... ABC Kids 2004 logo Disneys One Saturday Morning main line-up ABC Kids is a four-hour block of animated cartoons and live-action childrens television shows, broadcast on the ABC network in the U.S. and (until 2002) on the CTV network in Canada on Saturday mornings. ... Fly TV was an ABC television channel available to digital television viewers in Australia. ... ABC Rollercoaster is a childrens television segment run by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Australia. ... Asahi Broadcasting Corporation (朝日放送株式会社, Asahi-hōsō kabushiki Gaisha) is a Japanese broadcasting station in Osaka. ... The Associated Broadcasting Company, commonly abbreviated to ABC, is a Philippine television network, with main broadcast facilities in Metro Manila. ... Associated British Corporation (otherwise known as ABC Television or ABC Weekend TV) was one of a number of commercial television companies set up in the 1950s by cinema chains in an attempt to safeguard their business by getting involved in television which was taking away their cinema audiences. ... ABC is the name of a regional news programme for the Stockholm County and Uppsala County in Sweden broadcast by Sveriges Television (SVT). ... Sveriges Television (SVT) is a national publicly-funded television broadcaster based in Sweden. ...

Print Media

Alex Ross cover to Americas Best Comics 64 Page Giant, featuring all of the characters created by Alan Moore for the imprint. ... Diario ABC S.L is a Spanish newspaper that was founded in Madrid on January 1, 1903 by Ignacio Luca de Tena. ...

Other

Image:Abclog. ... The Audit Bureau of Circulations is one of the several organizations of the same name operating in different parts of the world. ... There are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ...

Cars

The ABC was an American automobile built in St. ... The ABC was an English car manufactured between 1920 and 1929 by ABC Motors. ... The ABC was a light car planned and advertised by the Arthur-Boynton Company of Albany, New York in 1922. ... Active Body Control (ABC Active Suspension) was developed by Mercedes-Benz. ...

Music

ABC was a hit 1970 album by legendary Motown group The Jackson 5. ... ABC is a 1970 number-one hit single recorded by The Jackson 5 for the Motown label. ... ABC is an English New Romantic band that charted eleven Top 40 singles between 1981 and 1990. ... ABC is a limited edition 7 single by The Pipettes of which 500 copies were pressed on white vinyl and released in June 2005 via Transgressive Records. ... ABC Records started in 1955 as ABC-Paramount Records, the recording arm of American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres. ... ABC-DEF-GHI is a song sung by Big Bird of Sesame Street. ... The alphabet song is a popular tool used to help teach children the Latin alphabet, commonly known by children as the A-B-Cs. ... The ABC is a music venue in Glasgow, Scotland. ... This article does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...

Science

Mount Sinai Hospital The Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital (Toronto), Ontario, Canada was established in 1985 by an endowment from the Lunenfeld and Kunin families. ... ATP-binding cassette transporter genes (ABC-transporter genes) are a superfamily of genes which encode the ABC-transporter proteins. ... An aneurysmal bone cyst is an expansile osteolytic lesion with a thin wall, containing blood-filled cystic cavities. ... Unsolved problems in mathematics: For every ε > 0, does there exist a K>0 such that for every triple of coprime positive integers a+b=c, with product d of their distinct prime factors, |a|+|b|+|c| < Kd1+ε? The abc conjecture in number theory was first proposed by Joseph Oesterlé and... A diagram of the ABC model. ... Wikibooks has a book on the topic of First Aid ABC (and extensions of this acronym) is a mnemonic for memorizing essential steps in dealing with an unconscious or unresponsive patient. ... ABC or Multi-Purpose dry chemcial utilizes a specially fluidized and siliconized Mono ammonium phosphate powder. ... The controversial abortion-breast cancer (ABC) hypothesis posits a causal relationship between having an induced abortion and a higher risk of developing breast cancer in the future. ... Approximate Bayesian computation (ABC) is a family of computational techniques in Bayesian statistics. ...

Computer science

Atanasoff–Berry Computer replica at 1st floor of Durham Center, Iowa State University The Atanasoff–Berry Computer (ABC) was the first electronic digital computing device. ... ABC is an imperative general-purpose programming language and programming environment from CWI, Netherlands. ... In cryptography, ABC is a stream cypher algorithm developed by Vladimir Anashin, Andrey Bogdanov, Ilya Kizhvatov, and Sandeep Kumar. ... In cryptography, ABC is a block cipher designed in 2002 by Dieter Schmidt. ... ABC 80 The ABC 80 (Advanced BASIC Computer 80) was a home computer engineered by the Swedish corporation Dataindustrier AB (DIAB) and manufactured by Luxor in Motala, Sweden in the late 1970s (first model August 1978) and early 1980s. ... The Luxor ABC800 series were office_versions of the ABC80 home computer. ... In software engineering, an abstract type is a type in a nominative type system which is declared by the programmer, and which has the property that it contains no members which are not also members of some declared subtype. ... In computer science, abstraction is a mechanism and practice to reduce and factor out details so that one can focus on a few concepts at a time. ... Object-oriented programming (OOP) is a programming paradigm that uses objects to design applications and computer programs. ...

Places

ABC countries is a term sometimes used to describe the South American countries of Argentina, Brazil and Chile, which are seen as three of the most powerful and wealthiest countries in South America. ... The ABC Powers refers in diplomacy to the South American countries of Argentina, Brazil, and Chile. ... Located in the metropolitan area of the Great São Paulo, near the capital of the state of São Paulo, Brazil. ... Nickname: Motto: Non ducor, duco(Latin) I am not led, I lead Location in the São Paulo state. ... The ABC Islands is the colloquial name for the Alaskan islands of Admiralty, Baranof, and Chichagof in the Alexander Archipelago. ... The ABC islands are Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao, the western islands of the Leeward Antilles; the last two are in the Netherlands Antilles, all are part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. ...

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The focus of ABC's restoration efforts is a long-term program to develop disease-tolerant strains of Crassostrea virginica, the native oyster whose population in Chesapeake Bay has been devastated by the diseases MSX and Dermo.
ABC's genetics group is developing "markers" for finding the regions of the oyster's DNA that confer disease tolerance.
ABC is also actively involved in research to evaluate the risks and benefits of using non-native species to help restore Virginia's ailing oyster industry.
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ABC and ITT agreed to a merger in late 1965, but this deal was derailed by FCC and Department of Justice questions about ITT's foreign ownership influencing ABC's autonomy and journalistic integrity.
ABC's west coast corporate offices are located in Burbank, California adjacent to the Walt Disney Studios and the Walt Disney Company corporate headquarters.
That logo was known as the "ABC Circle A." The logo was modified in the fall of 1962 when ABC started using the current "ABC Circle" logo (designed by Paul Rand) with ultra-modern (for its time) lower case 'abc' inside.
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