# ABS

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**ABS** usually refers to:

- [Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene](/source/Acrylonitrile_butadiene_styrene), a common plastics polymer
- [Anti-lock braking system](/source/Anti-lock_braking_system), in vehicles

**Abs** usually refers to:

- [Rectus abdominis muscle](/source/Rectus_abdominis_muscle) ("abdominal muscle" or "abs") of humans and some mammals
- [Abdominal muscles](/source/Abdominal_muscles) (colloquial)

**ABS** or **Abs** may also refer to:

## Arts and media

### Broadcasting

- [ABS (TV station)](/source/ABS_(TV_station)), Australian Broadcasting Corporation's television station in Adelaide, Australia
- [ABS network](/source/ABS_network) (Arab Broadcasting Services)
- [Akita Broadcasting System](/source/Akita_Broadcasting_System), Japan
- [Amalgamated Broadcasting System](/source/Amalgamated_Broadcasting_System), former US radio network
- [ABS-CBN Corporation](/source/ABS-CBN_Corporation), a Philippine media and entertainment conglomerate
- [Alto Broadcasting System](/source/ABS-CBN_Corporation#History), a Philippines company later ABS-CBN
- [ABS-CBN](/source/ABS-CBN), a Philippine television network
- [Antigua Broadcasting Service](/source/Antigua_Broadcasting_Service), state broadcaster of Antigua and Barbuda

### Music

- [A.B.'s](/source/A.B.'s), a Japanese 1980s instrumental band
- [American Bach Soloists](/source/American_Bach_Soloists), chamber music ensemble
- [Abz Love](/source/Abz_Love), British singer

### Other media

- [Abs Denham](/source/Abs_Denham), a fictional character in *Casualty*

## Aviation

- [Aerial base station](/source/Aerial_base_station), flying antenna system
- IATA airport code for [Abu Simbel Airport](/source/Abu_Simbel_Airport) in Aswan Governorate, Egypt

## Organizations

- [ABS FC](/source/ABS_FC), a football club from Ilorin, Nigeria
- [American Bible Society](/source/American_Bible_Society)
- [American Bladesmith Society](/source/American_Bladesmith_Society)
- [American Boy Scouts](/source/American_Boy_Scouts), an early Scouting organization
- [American Bureau of Shipping](/source/American_Bureau_of_Shipping), a shipping classification society
- [Association of Broadcasting Staff](/source/Association_of_Broadcasting_Staff), a former British broadcasting trade union
- [Aston Business School](/source/Aston_Business_School), Birmingham, England, UK
- [Australian Bureau of Statistics](/source/Australian_Bureau_of_Statistics)

### Companies

- [ABS Free Dish](/source/ABS_Free_Dish), a Bermuda-based television service
- [ABS (satellite operator)](/source/ABS_(satellite_operator)), Amit Somani, Dubai, formerly Asia Broadcast Satellite
- [ABS Capital Partners](/source/ABS_Capital_Partners), Baltimore, Maryland, US
- [Alternative Bank Schweiz](/source/Alternative_Bank_Schweiz), Solothurn, Switzerland
- [American Bladesmith Society](/source/American_Bladesmith_Society)
- [ABS Global](/source/ABS_Global), formerly American Breeders Service
- [ABS Building Society](/source/ABS_Building_Society), Australia
- [Acciaierie Bertoli Safau](/source/Acciaierie_Bertoli_Safau), an Italian steel mill

## Places

- [Archbold Biological Station](/source/Archbold_Biological_Station), a research institute in Florida, US
- [Abs district](/source/Abs_district), Hajjah Governorate, Yemen
- [Abs (Yemen)](/source/Abs_(Yemen)), a town

## Science and technology

### Biology and medicine

- [Amniotic band syndrome](/source/Amniotic_band_syndrome), a congenital disorder
- [Cis-abienol synthase](/source/Cis-abienol_synthase), an enzyme
- [Ankaferd BloodStopper](/source/Ankaferd_BloodStopper), an antihemorrhagic
- [Auto-brewery syndrome](/source/Auto-brewery_syndrome), ethanol produced in the digestive system
- [Aqueous biphasic system](/source/Aqueous_biphasic_system), for solvent extraction

### Other uses in science and technology

- , in linguistics, glossing abbreviation for [absolutive case](/source/Absolutive_case)
- [Absolute value](/source/Absolute_value), function in mathematics and computing
- [Adaptive bitrate streaming](/source/Adaptive_bitrate_streaming)
- [Anton-Babinski syndrome](/source/Anton-Babinski_syndrome), in neurology; rare symptom of brain damage
- [Arch Build System](/source/Arch_Build_System), in Arch Linux
- [Automated Ball-Strike System](/source/Automated_Ball-Strike_System), in baseball
- [Automatic block signaling](/source/Automatic_block_signaling), a railroad communications system that controls the movement of trains

## Other uses

- [Abs (surname)](/source/Abs_(surname)), list of people with the name
- [Ambonese Malay](/source/Ambonese_Malay) (ISO 639-3 code), a Malay creole of Indonesia
- [Asset-backed security](/source/Asset-backed_security), in finance
- [Advanced British Standard](/source/Advanced_British_Standard), a proposed British educational qualification
- [Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing](/source/Nagoya_Protocol_on_Access_and_Benefit_Sharing), supplementary to the Convention on Biological Diversity

## See also

- [AB (disambiguation)](/source/AB_(disambiguation)), including AB, Ab, ab; for the singular of ABs, Abs, abs

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