Usually means: Alphabet's first three basic letters.
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We found 53 dictionaries that define the word abc:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. ABC: Merriam-Webster
  2. ABC, ABC, ABC: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ABC: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ABC: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ABC: Vocabulary.com
  6. ABC, Abc, abc: Wordnik
  7. ABC, abc, the ABC: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. ABC: Wiktionary
  9. ABC: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. ABC: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. ABC: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. ABC, a.b.c: Dictionary.com
  13. abc: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. ABC (Audit Bureau of Circulations UK), ABC (Australia), ABC (Australian TV channel), ABC (Australian television), ABC (Cuba), ABC (Jin album), ABC (Song), ABC (Spain), ABC (Swedish news programme), ABC (TV station), ABC (The Jackson 5 album), ABC (The Jackson 5 song), ABC (U.S. TV network), ABC (Yet Another BitTorrent Client), ABC (album), ABC (band), ABC (computer virus), ABC (disambiguation), ABC (food), ABC (magazine), ABC (medicine), ABC (newspaper), ABC (programming language), ABC (stream cipher), ABC, Abc, .abc: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Abc: Rhymezone
  16. ABC: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  17. A.B.C: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  18. abc: FreeDictionary.org
  19. ABC: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. ABC: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  21. abc: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. abc: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  23. ABC: Merriam-Webster

Business (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. ABC: Accounting Glossary
  3. ABC: bizterms.net
  4. ABC: Management Dictionary
  5. ABC: Investopedia
  6. ABC: Wideman Comparative Glossary of Project Management Terms
  7. ABC: Financial dictionary
  8. Glossary of Trade and Shipping Terms (No longer online)

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. ABC: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  3. ABC: Dictionary of Programming Languages
  4. ABC (construction), ABC (disambiguation), ABC: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. ABC: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  5. Multiple Sclerosis Encyclopaedia (No longer online)
  6. ABC (disambiguation), ABC: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. ABC: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. abc: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. ABC (offensive), ABC (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. ABC, ABC, ABC, ABC: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. A.B.C, ABC (American Broadcasting Company), The ABC, a.b.c: Urban Dictionary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)
  3. Automotive Technology Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Washington State Definitions and Abbreviations of Vetrinary Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (ABC)

noun:  (uncountable, countable, usually plural in Canada, US) The English alphabet.
noun:  (obsolete, poetry) A type of poem in which the lines start with the letters of the alphabet in order.
noun:  (obsolete) A primer for teaching the Latin alphabet and first elements of reading.
noun:  The fundamentals of any subject.
noun:  (poker) A straightforward, uniform playing style, often focusing on betting for value, folding weak hands, and avoiding bluffing.
noun:  (UK, rail transport) A British alphabetized guidebook listing trains and their stations.
noun:  (computer languages) An imperative general-purpose programming language, intended for teaching or prototyping.
noun:  (computing, typography) A keyboard layout in which all keys are arranged in alphabetical order in English.
noun:  (mnemonic, emergency medicine) Initialism of airway, breathing and circulation: the essential steps in the immediate assessment and treatment of critically ill or injured patients. [(anatomy) The trachea.]
noun:  (US) Initialism of alcoholic beverage control.
noun:  (dated, sometimes derogatory) Initialism of American-born Chinese.
noun:  Initialism of Australian-born Chinese.
noun:  (business management) Initialism of activity-based costing.
noun:  (climbing) Initialism of advance base camp.
noun:  (biochemistry) Initialism of ATP-binding cassette.
noun:  (immunology, medicine) Initialism of antigen-binding capacity.
noun:  (immunology) Initialism of age-associated B cell.
noun:  (pathology) Initialism of aneurysmal bone cyst.
noun:  (pathology) Initialism of adenoid basal cell carcinoma.
noun:  (pharmacology) Abbreviation of abacavir. [(pharmacology) An antiretroviral drug (trademark Ziagen) taken orally in the form of its sulfate (C₁₄H₁₈N₆O)₂·H₂SO₄ in combination with other antiretroviral drugs to treat HIV infections. It is a synthetic nucleoside analog that acts by inhibiting reverse transcriptase. It causes potentially serious hypersensitivity reactions in a small percentage of patients.]
noun:  (pharmacology) Initialism of accelerated blood clearance.
noun:  (computing) Initialism of Atanasoff-Berry computer.
noun:  (computing) Initialism of artificial bee colony. [(computing) A metaheuristic-based optimization algorithm inspired by the intelligent foraging behavior of honey bee swarms.]
noun:  (law, finance) Initialism of assignment for the benefit of creditors.
noun:  (electrical engineering) Initialism of absorbing boundary condition.
noun:  (object-oriented programming) Initialism of abstract base class.
noun:  (psychology) Initialism of adventure-based counseling.
noun:  (psychology) Initialism of affect, behavior, and cognition. [(psychology) A subjective feeling experienced in response to a thought or other stimulus; mood, emotion, especially as demonstrated in external physical signs.]
noun:  (cryptozoology) Initialism of alien big cat.
noun:  (automotive) Initialism of active body control.
noun:  (Christianity, informal) Initialism of Archbishop of Canterbury.
noun:  (television) Initialism of American Broadcasting Company: an American commercial broadcast television network founded in 1943.
noun:  (radio, television) Initialism of Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
noun:  (historical, radio) Initialism of Australian Broadcasting Company.
noun:  (historical, radio, television) Initialism of Australian Broadcasting Commission.
noun:  (radio, television) Initialism of Asahi Broadcasting Corporation.
noun:  (finance) Initialism of Agricultural Bank of China.
noun:  (publishing) Initialism of Audit Bureau of Circulations.
noun:  (UK, now historical) Initialism of Aerated Bread Company, which ran a network of shops and cafeterias
noun:  (aviation) Initialism of Advance Booking Charter.
noun:  (historical, basketball) Initialism of Asian Basketball Confederation.
noun:  (historical, bowling) Initialism of American Bowling Congress.
noun:  (often attributively) Initialism of Argentina, Brazil and Chile: the three most powerful and wealthiest countries in South America. [A country in South America. Official name: Argentine Republic. Capital: Buenos Aires.]
noun:  Initialism of Santo André, São Bernardo do Campo and São Caetano do Sul: satellite cities around the city of São Paulo that form the most important industrial area in Brazil.
noun:  (US, rail transport) Initialism of Atlanta, Birmingham and Coast Railroad. [The capital and largest city of Georgia, United States and the county seat of Fulton County, Georgia.]
noun:  Initialism of American Book Center: an English-language bookstore in Amsterdam founded in 1972.
noun:  (Christianity) Initialism of Anglican Book Centre: the publishing house and bookshop of the Anglican Church of Canada until 2013.
adjective:  (weaponry) Initialism of atomic, biological and chemical: the three main categories of weapon of mass destruction. [(physics, chemistry) Of or relating to atoms; composed of atoms; monatomic.]
adjective:  (slang, of a piece of chewing gum) Initialism of already been chewed.
adjective:  (medicine, of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma) Initialism of activated B-cell-like.

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