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ABS is a three-letter initialism
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ABS is a three-letter initialism
Acronym and initialism

Acronyms, initialisms, and alphabetisms are abbreviations that are formed using the initial components in a phrase or name. These components may be individual letters or parts of words ....
 that may stand for:
  • Able Seaman (rank)
    Able Seaman (rank)

    Royal NavyIn the United Kingdom Royal Navy in the middle of the 18th century, the term Able Seaman referred to a seaman with at least two years' experience at sea....
  • Able Seaman (occupation)
    Able Seaman (occupation)

    An Able Seaman is an licensed mariner of the deck department of a merchant ship. An AB may work as a watchstander, a day worker, or a combination of these roles....
  • A.B.S.—a bargain clothes label by Allen B Schwartz, based in Los Angeles
    Los Ángeles

    Los ?ngeles is the Capital of the Biob?o Province, in the municipality of the same name, in Regions of Chile VIII , in the center-south of Chile....
  • Absolutive case
    Absolutive case

    In ergative-absolutive languages, the absolutive is the grammatical case used to mark both the subject of an intransitive verb and the object of a transitive verb....
     in interlinear glossing
  • Abu Simbel Airport
    Abu Simbel Airport

    Abu Simbel Airport is an airport in Abu Simbel, Egypt.In 2008, the airport served 634,236 passengers ....
     (IATA airport code: ABS), in Abu Simbel, Egypt
  • Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene
    Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene

    Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene is a common thermoplastic used to make light, rigid, molded products such as piping , musical instruments , golf club heads , automotive body parts, wheel covers, enclosures, protective head gear, airsoft Airsoft gun and toys, including Lego bricks....
    , a plastic
  • Acute Bacterial Sinusitis
    Sinusitis

    Sinusitis is an inflammation of the paranasal sinuses, which may or may not be as a result of infection, from bacterial, fungus, virus, allergy or autoimmunity issues....
    , sinus inflammation resulting from bacterial infection.
  • Adult bookstore
    Sex shop

    A sex shop, erotic shop is a Retailing#Shops and Stores that sells products such as sex toys, pornography, erotic lingerie, erotic books, and safer sex products such as condoms and dental dams....
  • AirPort Base Station, Apple's WLAN solution, AirPort
    Airport

    An airport is a location where aircraft such as Fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, and Non-rigid airship take off and land. Aircraft may also be stored or maintained at an airport....
  • Akita Broadcasting System
    Akita Broadcasting System

    Akita Broadcasting System, Inc. is a Japanese broadcaster in Akita Prefecture. Its radio station is affiliated with Japan Radio Network and National Radio Network , and its TV station is affiliated with Nippon News Network and Nippon TV Network System ....
    , a broadcasting station in Akita Prefecture, Japan
  • ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation, in the Philippines
  • Albino Blacksheep
    Albino Blacksheep

    Albino Blacksheep is a website based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada that posts humorous and artistic member-submitted digital media. Most of these are movies or games created with Adobe Flash....
    , a website
  • Alternative Bank ABS, Alternative Bank Schweiz, (Alternative Bank Switzerland)
  • American Bach Soloists
    American Bach Soloists

    The American Bach Soloists is an American chamber music ensemble. The group seeks to introduce contemporary audiences to the cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach through historically informed performances....
    , an American chamber music ensemble
  • American Bible Society
    American Bible Society

    The American Bible Society is a group, founded in 1816, that publishes, distributes, and translates the Bible.In 2000-2001, ABS distributed 4,113,106 Bibles and 8,322,112 copies of the New Testament....
  • American Bladesmith Society
    American Bladesmith Society

    The American Bladesmith Society is dedicated to preserving the ancient art and history of crafting hand forged knives.Established in 1976 with four members, its ranks have grown to approximately 1400 members, worldwide, as of the end of 2006....
    , a guild dedicated to makers of custom handforged knives
  • American Bouldering Series, the national governing body of competitive bouldering
    Bouldering

    Bouldering is a style of rock climbing undertaken without a rope and normally limited to very short climbs so that a fall will not result in serious injury....
     in the United States.
  • American Boy Scouts
    American Boy Scouts

    The American Boy Scout was an early American Scouting organization formed by William Randolph Hearst....
    , an early Scouting organization
  • American Breeders Service
    American Breeders Service

    The American Breeders Service, known today as ABS Global, is a artificial insemination company that sells frozen bovine semen from different breeds of cattle....
    , now ABS Global
  • American Bureau of Shipping
    American Bureau of Shipping

    The American Bureau of Shipping is a classification society, with a mission to promote the security of life, property and the natural environment, primarily through the development and verification of standards for the design, construction and operational maintenance of marine-related facilities....
  • Amniotic band syndrome
    Amniotic band syndrome

    Amniotic band syndrome , also called amniotic band constriction, amniotic band sequence, Streeter dysplasia, congenital constriction bands or rings, and amniotic deformity adhesions mutilations , is a congenital disorder caused by entrapment of fetal parts in fibrous amniotic bands while in utero....
  • Anchor Bible Series
    Anchor Bible Series

    The Anchor Bible Project, consisting of the Anchor Bible Commentary Series, Anchor Bible Dictionary and Anchor Bible Reference Library is a scholarly and commercial co-venture that began in 1956, when individual volumes in the commentary series began production....
  • Animal Behavior Society
    Animal Behavior Society

    The Animal Behavior Society is an international non-profit scientific society that encourages and promotes the professional study of animal behavior....
  • Anti-lock braking system
    Anti-lock braking system

    An anti-lock braking system, or ABS is a safety system which prevents the wheels on a motor vehicle from locking while brake.A rotating road wheel allows the driver to maintain steering control under heavy braking by preventing a skid and allowing the wheel to continue interacting Traction with the road surface as directed by driver...
    , an electronic automotive safety system for the vehicle braking system
  • Arch Build System
    Arch Linux

    Arch Linux is a Linux distribution intended to be lightweight and simple. The design approach of the development team focuses on "simplicity", elegance, code correctness and Minimalism ....
    , an Arch Linux tool
  • Archbold Biological Station
    Archbold Biological Station

    The Archbold Biological Station is a research institute with a surrounding estate near Lake Placid, Florida, United States. It includes an extensive area of Florida scrub, a scientifically interesting and highly threatened ecosystem....
    , a research station in Florida, USA
  • Asset-backed security
    Asset-backed security

    An asset-backed security is a Security whose value and income payments are derived from and collateralized by a specified pool of underlying assets....
    , a financial term
  • Association of Broadcasting Staff
    Association of Broadcasting Staff

    The Association of Broadcasting Staff was a United Kingdom broadcasting trade union.The organisation was founded in 1945 with the merger of the BBC Staff Association and the Association of BBC Engineers to form the BBC Staff Association....
  • ABS (TV station)
    ABS (TV station)

    ABS is the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's television station in Adelaide, South Australia. It began broadcasting on 11 March, 1960 from studios in the suburb of Collinswood, South Australia....
    , the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Adelaide TV station
  • Australian Bureau of Statistics
    Australian Bureau of Statistics

    File:ABS House.jpgThe Australian Bureau of Statistics is Australia's national statistics government agency. It came into being, as the Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics, on 8 December 1905, when the Census and Statistics Act 1905 was given Royal assent....
    , Australia's official statistical organisation
  • Automatic Brightness Stabilizer / Automatic Brightness Stabilization controller, adjusts the x-ray generator to maintain a preset image brightness level during fluoroscopy
    Fluoroscopy

    Fluoroscopy is an imaging technique commonly used by physicians to obtain real-time moving images of the internal structures of a patient through the use of a fluoroscope....
  • Abingdon Boys School
    Abingdon boys school

    is a Japanese rockfronted by Takanori Nishikawa . Formed in 2005, the band was named after Abingdon School, the all-male school where English rock band Radiohead was established....
    , a Japanese Rock band.
  • Automatic Block Signal
    Automatic Block Signal

    Basic Automatic Block Signals Automatic Block Signal, or ABS, systems consist of a series of Railway signal that govern blocks of track between the signals....
    , a railroad signal system in the United States


Abs or abs can also be:

an abbreviation:
  • Abdominals
    Human abdomen

    The human abdomen is the part of the body between the pelvis and the chest. Anatomically, the abdomen stretches from the thorax at the thoracic diaphragm to the pelvis at the pelvic brim....
    , abdominal muscles
  • Absolute value
    Absolute value

    In mathematics, the absolute value of a real number is its numerical value without regard to its Negative and non-negative numbers. So, for example, 3 is the absolute value of both 3 and -3....
     of a number, its value without regard to sign; its magnitude
  • Absolutive case
    Absolutive case

    In ergative-absolutive languages, the absolutive is the grammatical case used to mark both the subject of an intransitive verb and the object of a transitive verb....
  • Absorbance in regard to Spectroscopy
  • ABS Capital Partners
    ABS Capital Partners

    ABS Capital Partners is a private equity firm focused on growth capital investments in middle market companies across a range of industries including software, healthcare, media and communications....
    , a private equity firm based in Baltimore, Maryland
  • All Blacks
    All Blacks

    The New Zealand national rugby union team, often referred to by their nickname the All Blacks, is the representative side of New Zealand in rugby union....
    , the rugby team of New Zealand
  • (lambda) Abstraction
    Lambda calculus

    In mathematical logic and computer science, lambda calculus, also written as ?-calculus, is a formal system designed to investigate function definition, function application and recursion....
    , (?name.expression)


a nickname:
  • Abby Sciuto
    Abby Sciuto

    Abigail "Abby" Sciuto is a fictional Forensic science in the NCIS television series by CBS. Abby is portrayed by Pauley Perrette....
    , NCIS character
  • Abs Breen
    Abs Breen

    Abs Breen is an England DJ and musician, formerly a singer and rapper in the boy band Five . He attended the Italia Conti Stage School in London before starting his musical career....
    , member of the former UK boy band 5ive
  • Abs Denham
    Characters of Casualty

    Casualty is the world's longest running television medical drama, first broadcast in 1986 and transmitted in the UK on BBC One. The show's characters are all staff within the fictional Holby City Hospital, composed of Physician, Nurses#United_Kingdom, paramedics, and hospital management....
  • Michael Absalom
    Michael Absalom

    Michael Absalom, more commonly known as 'Abs', was a regular presenter on CBBC from 2002 to 2004....
    , a former CBBC presenter, usually referred to as "Abs" on air


surnames:
  • Johann Christian Josef Abs
    Johann Christian Josef Abs

    Johann Christian Josef Abs was a Germany teacher.In the year 1799 Abs gave his vow in the Franciscan monastery of Hamm and adopted the name of Theodosius....