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ABC

  [ey-bee-see]
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–noun, plural ABC's, ABCs.
ABC's (defs. 1, 3).

ABC

 
1. Trademark. American Broadcasting Companies: a television and radio network.
2. atomic, biological, and chemical: ABC warfare.

A.B.C.

 
1. Advance Booking Charter.
2. Alcoholic Beverage Control.

ABC's

  [ey-bee-seez]
–noun (used with a plural verb)
1. Also, ABC. the alphabet.
2. the basic skills of spelling, reading, and writing: learning the ABC's in the early grades of school.
3. Also, ABC. the basic or elementary facts, principles, etc., of a subject: the ABC's of electricity.
Also, ABCs
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ABC   (ā'bē-sē')   
n.  

  1. The alphabet. Often used in the plural: learned her ABCs when she was three years old.

  2. The rudiments of reading and writing. Often used in the plural.

  3. The rudiments of a subject. Often used in the plural: taught the ABCs of geometry.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: ABC
Function: abbreviation
atomic, biological, and chemical
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Computing Dictionary

ABC
1. Atanasoff-Berry Computer.
2. An imperative language and programming environment from CWI, Netherlands. It is interactive, structured, high-level, and easy to learn and use. It is a general-purpose language which you might use instead of BASIC, Pascal or AWK. It is not a systems-programming language but is good for teaching or prototyping.
ABC has only five data types that can easily be combined; strong typing, yet without declarations; data limited only by memory; refinements to support top-down programming; nesting by indentation. Programs are typically around a quarter the size of the equivalent Pascal or C program, and more readable.
ABC includes a programming environment with syntax-directed editing, suggestions, persistent variables and multiple workspaces and infinite precision arithmetic.
An example function words to collect the set of all words in a document:
HOW TO RETURN words document: PUT IN collection FOR line in document: FOR word IN split line: IF word not.in collection: INSERT word IN collection RETURN collection
Interpreter/compiler, version 1.04.01, by Leo Geurts, Lambert Meertens, Steven Pemberton . ABC has been ported to Unix, MS-DOS, Atari, Macintosh.
(http://cwi.nl/cwi/projects/abc.html).
FTP eu.net, FTP nluug.nl, FTP uunet.
Mailing list: .
E-mail: .
["The ABC Programmer's Handbook" by Leo Geurts, Lambert Meertens and Steven Pemberton, published by Prentice-Hall (ISBN 0-13-000027-2)].
["An Alternative Simple Language and Environment for PCs" by Steven Pemberton, IEEE Software, Vol. 4, No. 1, January 1987, pp. 56-64.]
(1995-02-09)
2. Argument, Basic value, C?.
An abstract machine for implementation of functional languages and its intermediate code.
[P. Koopman, "Functional Programs as Executable Specifications", 1990].
(1995-02-09)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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Abbreviations & Acronyms
ABC

  1. American Broadcasting Company

  2. American-born Chinese

The American Heritage® Abbreviations Dictionary, Third Edition
Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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