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 , 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
AB (disambiguation), including AB, Ab, ab; for the singular of ABs, Abs, abs