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 Bladesmith 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

• ABS, in linguistics, glossing abbreviation for absolutive case
• 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

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