Ace (disambiguation)

An ace is a playing card.

Ace(s), ACE(S) and variants may also refer to:

Arts and media

Comics

• Ace Comics, a 1937-1959 comic book series
• Ace Magazines (comics), a 1940-1956 a comic-book and pulp-magazine publishing company

Games

• Ace (video game), stylized as ACE, a 1985 flight simulator video game by Cascade Games
• A.C.E. Another Century's Episode, a 2005 video game for the PlayStation 2
• Ace Online, a flight-based online role-playing game

Music

Groups

• Ace (band), a 1970s British rock group
• The Aces (blues band), a 1950s–1970s American group
• The Aces (indie pop band), a 2010s American group
• The Aces (Jamaican group), a 1965–1980s group, associated with Desmond Dekker
• A.C.E (South Korean band), a South Korean boy group
• The Aces (rock and roll band), a British group formed in the 1950s

Labels

• Ace Records (United Kingdom)
• Ace Records (United States)

Albums and songs

• Ace (Bob Weir album)
• Ace (Ian Van Dahl album)
• Aces (album), by Suzy Bogguss
  • "Aces" (song), by Suzy Bogguss
• Ace (Scooter album)
• Ace (Taemin EP)

Other uses in arts and media

• ACE Awards (Award for Cable Excellence)
• Ace Cinema, cinema in the London Borough of Harrow
• Ace (film)
• ACE (games magazine)
• Ace (musical) 2006
• Ace (Wild Cards), a class of characters in the Wild Cards science fiction universe

Brands and enterprises

Manufacturers

• Ace Aircraft Manufacturing Company
• Ace Tone, a musical instrument company
• ACeS, a regional satellite-telecommunications company based in Jakarta, Indonesia
• Action Computer Enterprise, a defunct microcomputer company
• Action Construction Equipment, an Indian company
• Aircraft Engineering Corporation, now defunct

Media companies

• Accelerated Christian Education, an educational products company
• Ace Books, 1952–present, an American publisher of science fiction and fantasy
• Ace Cinemas, an Australian cinema chain
• Ace Radio, an Australian company
• Aces Studio, a former video game company
• ACE Team, a Chilean video game company

Other enterprises

• ACE Aviation Holdings, former parent company of Air Canada
• Ace Hardware, an American retailers' cooperative
• ACE Limited, a Swiss insurance company
• ACES Colombia, Aerolíneas Centrales de Colombia, a defunct airline

Products

• Ace (brand), Latin American brand name for Tide detergent
• Rockman Ace, a guitar amplifier in the Rockman series

Education

• Alternative Center for Excellence, a school in Danbury, Connecticut, US
• American College of Education, an online college based in Indianapolis, Indiana, US
• American College of Epidemiology
• American Council on Education
• Australian College of Educators

Government

• ACE Electoral Knowledge Network, a web portal
• Agriculture in Concert with the Environment, a US Environmental Protection Agency program
• American Clean Energy and Security Act (2009)
• Automation of Central Excise and Service Tax (ACES), an alternative name for India's Central Excise Mission Mode Project

Military

• Ace (military)
  • Flying ace, a military aviator credited with shooting down a set number of enemy aircraft
  • Panzer ace, an ahistorical, popular culture term to describe successful German tank commanders
• ACES Meet, a multilateral air exercise
• Allied Command Europe, central command of NATO forces in Europe
• Galil ACE, an assault rifle
• HMS Ace (P414), a British submarine
• M9 Armored Combat Earthmover, a tracked vehicle
• United States Army Corps of Engineers
• Aviation combat element, the air arm of the US Marines Air-Ground Task Force

Organizations

Business and professional associations

• Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment
• American Cinema Editors
• American Copy Editors Society
• Association for Consultancy and Engineering

Other organizations

For businesses, see § Brands and enterprises. For education institutions, see § Education. For government programs, see § Government. For military units, see § Military. For sports teams, see § Sports.

• Aberdeen Community Energy
• Advisory Committee of Experts on Slavery, abolitionist organization at the League of Nations
• Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals
• Alternatives for Community and Environment, a Boston environmental justice organization
• American Coaster Enthusiasts
• Animal Charity Evaluators
• Anime Contents Expo, a trade fair
• Arts Council England
• Association for Consciousness Exploration
• Association of European Film Archives and Cinematheques (French: Association des Cinémathèques Européennes)
• Association of Latin Entertainment Critics (Spanish: Asociación de Cronistas de Espectáculos de Nueva York)
• Assyria Council of Europe, a lobbying organization based in Brussels
• Astronaute Club Européen, a French space tourism association
• Auxiliary Campus Enterprises and Services, an organization at Alfred College, US
• Aviation Centre of Excellence, a department of Confederation College in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada

People and fictional characters

• Ace (musician), guitarist with Skunk Anansie
• Ace (name), includes people and fictional characters with the given name, nickname, surname, ring name or stage name
• Ace (gamer), American professional Halo player
• Warren Furman, Ace from Gladiators

Places

• Ace, ancient name of Acre, Israel
• ACE Basin, the estuaries of the Ashepoo, Combahee and Edisto Rivers in South Carolina, United States
• Aces (parish), Candamo, Spain
• Aces (river), a river of Asia
• Ace, Texas, United States, an unincorporated community
• Lanzarote Airport in Canary Islands, Spain (IATA airport code ACE)

Science and technology

Aerospace

• Adaptive Cycle Engine, also Variable cycle engine, a jet engine design that can operate efficiently under varying conditions
• Advanced Composition Explorer, a NASA satellite
• Advanced Crew Escape Suit, an astronaut suit
• Advanced Cryogenic Evolved Stage, a proposed rocket 2nd stage for ULA
• Asia Cellular Satellite system, a precursor of the Indonesian satellite company PT Pasifik Satelit Nusantara
• Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment, a project of the Canadian satellite SCISAT-1
• Atomic Clock Ensemble in Space, a European Space Agency project
• Edel Ace, a South Korean paraglider design

Biology, chemistry, and healthcare

• ACE inhibitor, a drug that lowers blood pressure
• Ace K, acesulfame potassium, an artificial sweetener
• A.C.E. mixture, an historical anesthetic
• Acepromazine, an antipsychotic drug used primarily in animals
• ACES (buffer), one of Good's buffers
• ACES (nutritional supplement), containing vitamins A, C, E and selenium
• ACE unit (Acute Care of Elderly), a type of hospital facility
• Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination
• Adverse childhood experiences
• Angiotensin-converting enzyme, a central component of the renin–angiotensin system (RAS), which controls blood pressure

Computing

• Access Control Entry, part of an access control list
• ACE (compressed file format)
• Ace (editor), a code editor written in JavaScript
• ACE (editor), a desktop-based collaborative editor
• ACE (genomic file format)
• Acehnese language (ISO 639 code)
• ACES (computational chemistry), a software package
• Adaptive Communication Environment, an open-source network-programming framework
• Advanced Computerized Execution System, a stock-trading system
• Advanced Computing Environment, an early 1990s initiative for commodity computing hardware
• Agent-based computational economics
• Arbitrary code execution
• ASCII Compatible Encoding, a prefix related to internationalized domain names
• Asynchronous Compute Engine, a component defined in AMD's Graphics Core Next for ATI-type products
• Automatic Computing Engine, a 1952 British computer
• Automatic Content Extraction, an information-extraction technology-development program
• Jupiter Ace, a 1980s British computer
• Anti-Cheat Expert, an anti-cheat system developed by Tencent

Other uses in science and technology

For transportation technology, see § Transportation.

• Academy Color Encoding System (ACES), a proposed color image encoding
• Accumulated cyclone energy, commonly known as (ACE), metric used by various agencies to express the energy released by a tropical cyclone
• ACE (cable system), a submarine communications cable
• ACE experiment, the Antiproton Cell Experiment hosted at CERN
• Ace (quark model), an obsolete term for quark
• Aggregative Contingent Estimation, a program of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency
• Alternating conditional expectations, an algorithm in nonparametric regression
• Alternative Chassis Engineering, a UK bus manufacturer, builder of the ACE Cougar
• Attempto Controlled English, a controlled natural language from the University of Zurich

Sports

Terminology

• Ace (baseball), a team's best starting pitcher
• Ace formation, in American football
• Ace (golf), a hole in one
• Ace (pickleball), a serve that is not returned by the receiver
• Ace (tennis), a point won by the server without contest

Teams

• Alaska Aces (ECHL), an American ice hockey team
• Alaska Aces (PBA), a Philippine basketball team
• Alexandria Aces, a defunct American baseball team in Louisiana
• Asheville Aces, a defunct American ice hockey team
• Belle Vue Aces, an English motorcycle speedway team
• Cornwall Aces, a Canadian ice hockey team playing 1993-1996
• Dallas Aces, the world's first professional bridge team
• Evansville Purple Aces, a college team of the University of Evansville
• Las Vegas Aces, an American basketball team
• Lower Merion High School Aces, the athletic teams at the school in suburban Philadelphia
• Melbourne Aces, an Australian baseball team founded 2009
• Northeast League Aces, a Canadian-American baseball team
• Quebec Aces, a Canadian ice hockey team playing 1928-1971
• Reno Aces, an American baseball team in Nevada
• Victoria Aces, an Australian baseball team founded 1934

Transportation

Automotive

• AC Ace, a 1953-1963 English car
• Ace Motor Corporation, a 1919–1927 American motorcycle company
• Ace (1913 automobile), a 1912-1916 British car
• Ace (1920 automobile), a 1920-1922 American car
• Atlantic City Expressway, a New Jersey toll road which is the main route between Atlantic City and Philadelphia
• Tata Ace, an Indian mini-truck introduced 2005

Rail

• Altamont Corridor Express, a California train service
• Atlantic City Express Service, a New York-New Jersey train service
• Atlantic Coast Express, an England train service
• EMD SD70ACe, an American diesel-electric locomotive commonly referred to as an "Ace"
• Kintetsu 22600 series "Ace", a Japanese train type
• IND Eighth Avenue Line, New York City Subway line served by the A, C, and E trains

Other uses

• Ace, a term for an asexual person
• Action for Climate Empowerment, a United Nations term

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Ace
• All pages with titles beginning with ACE
• All pages with titles containing ace (includes ACE)
• All pages with titles containing aces (includes ACES)
• Ace of aces (disambiguation)
• Ace1 (disambiguation)
• Ace 2 (disambiguation)