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, colloquially

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)
• ABS-CBN Corporation, a Philippine media company
  • Alto Broadcasting System, an older name for the media company mentioned above
  • ABS-CBN, the namesake media network
• Akita Broadcasting System, Japan
• Amalgamated Broadcasting System, former US radio network
• American Broadcasting System, former name of the ABC (American Broadcasting Company) TV network after its Blue Network predecessor was sold to Edward J. Noble
• Antigua Broadcasting Service, state broadcaster of Antigua and Barbuda

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

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

Other organizations

• ABS FC, a football club from Ilorin, Nigeria
• American Bible Society
• American Bladesmith Society
• American Boy Scouts, an early Scouting organization
• American Bureau of Shipping, a shipping classification society
• Association of Broadcasting Staff, a former British broadcasting trade union
• Aston Business School, Birmingham, England, UK
• Australian Bureau of Statistics

Places

• Abu Simbel Airport in Aswan Governorate, Egypt (IATA airport code ABS)
• Archbold Biological Station, a research institute in Florida, US
• Abs district, Hajjah Governorate, Yemen
• Abs (Yemen), a town

Science and technology

Biology and medicine

• Rectus abdominis muscle ("abdominal muscle" or "abs") of humans and some mammals
• Abdominal muscles , colloquially
• 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

Other uses in science and technology

• ABS, in linguistics, glossing abbreviation for absolutive case
• Absolute value, function in mathematics and computing
• Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene, a common plastics polymer
• Adaptive bitrate streaming
• Aerial base station, a flying antenna system
• Anti-lock braking system, in vehicles
• Anton-Babinski syndrome, in neurology; rare symptom of brain damage
• Arch Build System, in Arch Linux
• Automated Ball-Strike System, in baseball
• Automatic block signaling, a railroad communications system that controls the movement of trains

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

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with ABS
• All pages with titles beginning with Abs
• All pages with titles containing abs
• AB (disambiguation), including AB, Ab, ab; for the singular of ABs, Abs, abs