ABS
ABS usually refers to:
- Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene, a common plastics polymer
- Anti-lock braking system, in vehicles
Abs usually refers to:
- Rectus abdominis muscle ("abdominal muscle" or "abs") of humans and some mammals
- Abdominal muscles (colloquial)
ABS or Abs may also refer to:
Arts and media
Broadcasting
- ABS (TV station), Australian Broadcasting Corporation's television station in Adelaide, Australia
- ABS network (Arab Broadcasting Services)
- Akita Broadcasting System, Japan
- Amalgamated Broadcasting System, former US radio network
- Alto Broadcasting System, a Philippines company later ABS-CBN
Music
- A.B.'s, a Japanese 1980s instrumental band
- American Bach Soloists, chamber music ensemble
- Abz Love, British singer
Other media
- Abs Denham, a fictional character in Casualty
Organizations
- ABS FC, a football club from Ilorin, Nigeria
- American Bible Society
- American Boy Scouts, an early Scouting organization
- American Bureau of Shipping, a shipping classification society
- Animal Behavior Society, an international organization
- Association of Broadcasting Staff, a former British broadcasting trade union
- Aston Business School, Birmingham, England, UK
- Australian Bureau of Statistics
Companies
- ABS Free Dish, a Bermuda-based television service
- ABS (satellite operator), Amit Somani, Dubai, formerly Asia Broadcast Satellite
- ABS Capital Partners, Baltimore, Maryland, US
- Alternative Bank Schweiz, Solothurn, Switzerland
- American Bladesmith Society
- ABS Global, formerly American Breeders Service
- ABS Building Society, Australia
- Acciaierie Bertoli Safau, an Italian steel mill
- ABS-CBN Corporation, a Philippine media and entertainment conglomerate.
- ABS-CBN, a Philippine television network.
Places
- Abu Simbel Airport (IATA airport code), Egypt
- Archbold Biological Station, a research institute in Florida, US
- Abs District, Hajjah Governorate, Yemen
- Abs (Yemen), a town
Science and technology
- Absolutive case, in interlinear glossing
- Absolute value, function in mathematics and computing
- Arch Build System, in Arch Linux
- Automated Balls and Strikes, in baseball
- Automatic block signal, in US railroad signalling
Biology and medicine
- Amniotic band syndrome, a congenital disorder
- Cis-abienol synthase, an enzyme
- Ankaferd BloodStopper, an antihemorrhagic
- Auto-brewery syndrome, ethanol produced in the digestive system
- Aqueous biphasic system, for solvent extraction
Telecommunications
- Aerial base station, flying antenna system
Other uses
- Abs (surname), list of people with the name
- Ambonese Malay (ISO 639-3 code), a Malay creole of Indonesia
- Asset-backed security, in finance
- Advanced British Standard, a proposed British educational qualification
- Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing, supplementary to the Convention on Biological Diversity
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