List of Acronyms and Initialisms: A - AB

AB

  • ab – (s) Abkhaz language (ISO 639-1 code)
  • AB
    • (i) Able Seaman (both the rank and the occupation)
    • (s) Alberta (postal symbol)
  • ABA
    • (i) Adriatic Basketball Association
    • American Bar Association
    • American Basketball Association
    • American Beverage Association
    • American Bicycle Association
    • American Birding Association
    • Australian Broadcasting Authority
  • ABB – (i) ASEA Brown Boveri (Swiss-Swedish multinational company)
  • ABBA – (a) Agnetha, Benny, Björn, Anni-Frid (Swedish pop group)
  • ABC
    • (i) abstinence, be faithful, condoms
    • Active Body Control
    • airway, breathing, circulation (see CPR)
    • Alcoholic Beverage Commission
    • alien big cat
    • always be careful
    • American Bird Conservancy
    • American-born Chinese
    • American Broadcasting Company
    • anti-lock brake controller
    • Associated British Corporation
    • Atanasoff–Berry Computer
    • Atlantic Baptist College
    • atomic, biological, chemical (see NBC)
    • Australian Broadcasting Corporation
  • ABCA
    • (i) American, British and Canadian Armies (originally)
    • Army Bureau of Current Affairs
  • ABCS – (i) (U.S.) Army Battle Command System
  • ABET – (a) Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology
  • ABFIST – (i) Advanced Bradley Full Crew Interactive Skills Trainer
  • ABGI – (i) Addington-Barker Group International
  • ABIN – (a) Agência Brasileira de Inteligência (Brazilian Intelligence Agency)
  • abk – (s) Abkhaz language (ISO 639-2 code)
  • ABL – (i) American Basketball League
  • ABLE – (a) AirBorne Law Enforcement (police air support unit)
  • ABM – (i) anti-ballistic missile – Asynchronous Balanced Mode – automated banking machine
  • ABMC – (i) American Battle Monuments Commission
  • ABN – (i) Australian Business Number (a number issued by the Australian government as registration of a business and used for taxation purposes)
  • ABPI – (i) Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry
  • ABRSM – (a) Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music
  • ABS
    • (i) acrylonitrile butadiene styrene
    • anti-lock braking system
  • ABSA – (a) Amalgamated Banks of South Africa ("ab-sa")
  • ABSTRIPS – (p) abstraction-based STRIPS
  • ABW – (s) Aruba (ISO 3166 trigram)

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