Australia

• Australian Sports Commission
  Australian Sports Commission
  The Australian Sports Commission is the governing body responsible for distributing funds and providing strategic guidance for sporting activity in Australia. It is an agency of the Government of Australia within the portfolio of Health and Ageing...
  
  
• Australian Submarine Corporation
  Australian Submarine Corporation
  The ASC, formerly Australian Submarine Corporation, is a wholly government-owned Australian naval defence company headquartered at Osborne in Adelaide, South Australia.-History:...
  
  , a naval equipment manufacturer in Adelaide, South Australia

Canada

• Advertising Standards Canada
  Advertising Standards Canada
  Advertising Standards Canada is the advertising industry's non-profit self-regulating body created in 1957 to ensure the integrity and viability of advertising in Canada. The organization includes over 160 advertisers, advertising agencies, media organizations, and suppliers to the advertising sector...
  
  
• Association des Scouts du Canada
  Association des Scouts du Canada
  L'Association des Scouts du Canada is a World Organization of the Scout Movement "affiliated organization" through affiliation with Scouts Canada in Canada. The biggest difference between the two associations is the language spoken and the religion behind it...
  
  
• Airsoft Canada

Republic of China (Taiwan)

• Aviation Safety Council
  Aviation Safety Council
  The Aviation Safety Council was established in May 1998 as the independent government agency responsible for aviation accident investigation, with the purpose of analyzing causal factors and proposing flight safety recommendations in the Free Area of the Republic of China...
  
  , government agency responsible for aviation safety and investigation

United Kingdom

• Association of Speakers Clubs
  Association of Speakers Clubs
  The Association of Speakers Clubs is a British confederation of about 150 clubs around the country that promote the skill of public speaking.-History:The ASC was formed by de-merger from Toastmasters International in 1973...
  
  , a group of public speaking clubs
• Royal Army Service Corps
  Royal Army Service Corps
  The Royal Army Service Corps was a corps of the British Army. It was responsible for land, coastal and lake transport; air despatch; supply of food, water, fuel, and general domestic stores such as clothing, furniture and stationery ; administration of...
  
  , unit of the British Army, ASC before 1918, RASC after
• Avon and Somerset Constabulary
  Avon and Somerset Constabulary
  Avon & Somerset Constabulary is the territorial police force in England responsible for policing the non-metropolitan county of Somerset, the city & county of Bristol and the unitary authorities of South Gloucestershire, North Somerset and Bath and North East Somerset; before 1996 these districts...
  
  , the territorial police force covering Avon and Somerset, England
  England
  England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
  
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United States

• Accredited Standards Committee, a subdivision of the American National Standards Institute
  American National Standards Institute
  The American National Standards Institute is a private non-profit organization that oversees the development of voluntary consensus standards for products, services, processes, systems, and personnel in the United States. The organization also coordinates U.S. standards with international...
  
   (ANSI)
• Aeronautical Systems Center
  Aeronautical Systems Center
  The Aeronautical Systems Center is an Air Force product center that designs, develops and delivers dominant aerospace weapon systems and capabilities for U.S. Air Force, other U.S. military, allied and coalition-partner warfighters, in support of Air Force leadership priorities...
  
  , an Air Force product center
• Airflow Sciences Corporation
  Airflow Sciences Corporation
  Airflow Sciences Corporation is an engineering consulting company based in Livonia, Michigan that specializes in the solution of industrial fluid flow problems. While it is particularly known for work in Power generation, its customers come from many industries across a wide geographical regions,...
  
  , an engineering consulting company in Livonia, Michigan
• American Signal Corporation
  American Signal Corporation
  American Signal Corporation is an outdoor warning siren company in America founded in 1942.-History:The company began as Biersach and Niedermeyer Co. in 1873, a Milwaukee, Wisconsin based metal fabricating operation. After the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, concerns surfaced that the American public...
  
  , a Tornado Siren company founded in 1942
• American Society of Cinematographers
  American Society of Cinematographers
  The American Society of Cinematographers is an educational, cultural, and professional organization. It is not a labor union, and it is not a guild. Membership is by invitation and is extended only to directors of photography and special effects experts with distinguished credits in the film...
  
  
• American Society of Criminology
  American Society of Criminology
  The American Society of Criminology is an international organization whose members pursue scholarly, scientific and professional knowledge concerning the measurement, etiology, consequences, prevention, control, and treatment of crime and delinquency...
  
  
• American Society for Cytotechnology
  American Society for Cytotechnology
  Founded in 1979, the American Society for Cytotechnology is a professional organization dedicated to the field of cytotechnology. The ASCT promotes cytotechnology through the development of practice standards, and by staying up to date regarding emerging technologies and the legislative and...
  
  , a professional organization dedicated to the field of cytotechnology
  Cytotechnology
  Cytotechnology is the microscopic interpretation of cells to detect cancer and other abnormalities. This includes the examination of samples collected from the uterine cervix , lung, gastrointestinal tract or body cavities....
  
  
• American Southwest Conference
  American Southwest Conference
  The American Southwest Conference is a college athletic conference, founded in 1996, whose member schools compete in the NCAA's Division III. The schools are located in Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas and Mississippi...
  
  , an athletic conference
• American Specialty Cars
  American Specialty Cars
  American Specialty Cars is an automobile supplier of highly engineered and designed roof systems, body systems and other specialty-vehicle systems for the world’s automakers...
  
  , an automobile parts manufacturer
• Armed Services Committee
  Armed Services Committee
  The term Armed Services Committee may refer to:*United States House Committee on Armed Services*United States Senate Committee on Armed Services...
  
  , a committee of the United States Senate overseeing the U.S. Military
• Atlantic Sun Conference
  Atlantic Sun Conference
  The Atlantic Sun Conference is a college athletic conference operating in the Southeastern United States. The conference participates in the NCAA's Division I; it does not sponsor football. The conference was established in 1978 as the Trans America Athletic Conference...
  
  , an athletic conference
• ASC Games
  ASC Games
  ASC is an abbreviation of American Softworks Corporation, a computer and video game publishing company that was founded in 1992 and soon became a major publisher for games on the NES, SNES and Sega Genesis.ASC was also the publisher of :...
  
  , or American Softworks Corporation, a computer and video game publishing company

Multi-national organizations

• Anti-Spyware Coalition
  Anti-Spyware Coalition
  The Anti-Spyware Coalition is a group dedicated to building a consensus about definitions and best practices in the debate surrounding spyware and other potentially unwanted technologies....
  
  , a group involved with certain computer software technology

Educational institutions

• Agnes Scott College
  Agnes Scott College
  Agnes Scott College is a private undergraduate college in the United States. Agnes Scott's campus lies in downtown Decatur, Georgia, nestled inside the perimeter of the bustling metro-Atlanta area....
  
  , a private liberal arts college in Decatur, Georgia
• Aldworth Science College
  Aldworth Science College
  Aldworth Science College is a secondary school, formerly Richard Aldworth Community School, in Basingstoke, Hampshire, England. The school holds Specialist Science College status.-Founder:...
  
  , a secondary school in Basingstoke, Hampshire, England
• Alfred State College
  Alfred State College
  Alfred State College is a State University of New York College of Technology located in Alfred, New York in Allegany County. This college, formerly the Agricultural and Technical College at Alfred, now grants baccalaureate degrees in 18 areas, associate degrees in nearly 60 areas, as well as a...
  
  , a secondary school located in Alfred, New York
• All Saints College (disambiguation), any of several schools of that name
• Annenberg School for Communication (disambiguation), multiple schools of that name
• Anglican Schools Commission
  Anglican Schools Commission
  The Anglican Schools Commission was established in 1985, following the passage of a resolution by the Perth Diocesan Synod of the Anglican Church of Australia....
  
  

Biology or medicine

• Adult stem cell
  Adult stem cell
  Adult stem cells are undifferentiated cells, found throughout the body after embryonic development, that multiply by cell division to replenish dying cells and regenerate damaged tissues...
  
  , undifferentiated cells found in the human body that perform repair-related functions
• Agitated saline contrast, a bubbled saline solution used in an agitated saline contrast test
  Agitated saline contrast test
  An agitated saline contrast test , also agitated saline contrast study, agitated saline bubble study, agitated saline bubble test, bubble study, or bubble test, is a technique used to obtain additional information from an echocardiogram.The technique uses a saline solution which is agitated by...
  
  , a diagnostic heart procedure
• Anterior subcapsular cataract
  Cataract
  A cataract is a clouding that develops in the crystalline lens of the eye or in its envelope, varying in degree from slight to complete opacity and obstructing the passage of light...
  
  , a type of clouding of the eye
• ASC Gene (apoptosis-associated speck-like protein containing a CARD), with the formal name of PYCARD
  PYCARD
  Apoptosis-associated speck-like protein containing a CARD or ASC is a protein that in humans is encoded by the PYCARD gene.This gene encodes an adaptor protein that is composed of two protein–protein interaction domains: a N-terminal PYRIN-PAAD-DAPIN domain and a C-terminal caspase-recruitment...
  
  , a protein

Technology

• Active Stability Control, a term used by Mitsubishi to refer to their electronic stability control system
• Arcade style controller
  Arcade style controller
  An arcade controller is a collective set of input devices designed primarily for use in an arcade cabinet. A typical control set consists of a joystick and a number of push-buttons. Less common setups include devices such as trackballs or steering wheels...
  
  , a device used to play video games
• Arc-Suppression Coil, device used in Alternating Current
  Alternating current
  In alternating current the movement of electric charge periodically reverses direction. In direct current , the flow of electric charge is only in one direction....
  
   power transmission systems to limit the current flowing to ground at the location of a fault almost to zero by setting up a reactive current to ground that balances the capacitive current to ground flowing from the lines. Also known as Petersen coil.
• Area Signalling Centre, a term for describing a modern railway signal box
• Application Session Controller
  Application Session Controller
  The Application Session Controller network element resides at the application layer and sits between the application layer and the core network to provide and manage connectivity to the evolving telecom network...
  
  , an element of a telecommunications network
• .asc, a computer filename extension sometimes used for text files, as an abbreviation to ASCII
  ASCII
  The American Standard Code for Information Interchange is a character-encoding scheme based on the ordering of the English alphabet. ASCII codes represent text in computers, communications equipment, and other devices that use text...
  
   (also used by ASCII Armor in the programs GPG
  GNU Privacy Guard
  GNU Privacy Guard is a GPL Licensed alternative to the PGP suite of cryptographic software. GnuPG is compliant with RFC 4880, which is the current IETF standards track specification of OpenPGP...
  
   and PGP
  Pretty Good Privacy
  Pretty Good Privacy is a data encryption and decryption computer program that provides cryptographic privacy and authentication for data communication. PGP is often used for signing, encrypting and decrypting texts, E-mails, files, directories and whole disk partitions to increase the security...
  
   to convert binary data into ASCII)
• Automatic Stability Control, a term used by BMW Motorrad to refer to their traction control system
  Traction control system
  A traction control system , also known as anti-slip regulation , is typically a secondary function of the anti-lock braking system on production motor vehicles, designed to prevent loss of traction of driven road wheels...
  
  
• TI Advanced Scientific Computer, a supercomputer design created by Texas Instruments Inc. in 1966
• Auto SoftCapping, mainframe software for controlling capping in a sub-capacity pricing environment

Others

• Advanced supercritical coal, a type of fossil fuel power plant
  Fossil fuel power plant
  A fossil-fuel power station is a power station that burns fossil fuels such as coal, natural gas or petroleum to produce electricity. Central station fossil-fuel power plants are designed on a large scale for continuous operation...
  
  
• Ambulatory surgery center, a type of health care facility
• American Solar Challenge, a solar car race now known as the North American Solar Challenge
• Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
  Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
  The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is a collection of annals in Old English chronicling the history of the Anglo-Saxons. The original manuscript of the Chronicle was created late in the 9th century, probably in Wessex, during the reign of Alfred the Great...
  
  , a collection of Old English books
• The ASC (dinghy)
  ASC (dinghy)
  The ASC or Admiralty Sailing Craft is a purpose built, rugged GRP or wood sailing dinghy, historically with gunter rig, with a bermuda rig optional, designed for use by UK naval and sea cadet establishments as a pulling or sailing dinghy.It is a substantial craft, usually left on a mooring in...
  
  , a 16 foot sailing dinghy in use with the Sea Cadet Corps in the UK
• Ascending order, when sorting; see Collation
  Collation
  Collation is the assembly of written information into a standard order. One common type of collation is called alphabetization, though collation is not limited to ordering letters of the alphabet...
  
  
• Asia-Pacific Song Contest, song contest based on the Eurovision Song Contest
• Asian Science Camp
  Asian Science Camp
  The Asian Science Camp is an annual forum for pre-collegiate and college students which aims at promoting discussion and cooperation among Asian students for the betterment of science in the Asian region. The first ASC was held at Taipei in 2007, and was subsequently held at Bali , Tsukuba ,...
  
  , an annual science forum for pre-collegiate and collegiate students of Asia.
• Ashchurch for Tewkesbury railway station
  Ashchurch for Tewkesbury railway station
  Ashchurch for Tewkesbury is a railway station serving the village of Ashchurch near Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire, England. The station is located on the main Bristol–Birmingham main line 12 km north of Cheltenham Spa and was opened on 1 June 1997...
  
  , a railway station in England (abbreviated per the National Rail code)
• Altered state of consciousness
  Altered state of consciousness
  An altered state of consciousness , also named altered state of mind, is any condition which is significantly different from a normal waking beta wave state. The expression was used as early as 1966 by Arnold M. Ludwig and brought into common usage from 1969 by Charles Tart: it describes induced...
  
  
• ASC, a British Jazz Band
• Antwerps schermcentrum (Antwerp Fencing Center), an Antwerp based fencing club
• Autism Spectrum Condition
  Autism spectrum
  The term "autism spectrum" is often used to describe disorders that are currently classified as pervasive developmental disorders. Pervasive developmental disorders include autism, Asperger syndrome, Childhood disintegrative disorder, Rett syndrome and Pervasive Developmental Disorder Not Otherwise...
  
  
• After Sozin's Comet, dating used in Avatar: The Last Airbender
  Avatar: The Last Airbender
  Avatar: The Last Airbender is an American animated television series that aired for three seasons on Nickelodeon from 2005 to 2008. The series was created and produced by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, who served as executive producers along with Aaron Ehasz...
  
  universe.