ASC
Appearance
ASC may refer to:
Educational institutions
[edit]- Anglican Schools Commission, Australia
- Andres Soriano Colleges of Bislig, located in Surigao del Sur, Philippines
- Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Georgia
- Alfred State College, Alfred, New York
Organizations
[edit]Australia
[edit]- Australian Securities Commission, now Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC)
- Australian Singing Competition
- Australian Sports Commission
- ASC Pty Ltd (former Australian Submarine Corporation), a naval shipbuilder
- ASC Shipbuilding established by ASC Pty Ltd but now a subsidiary of BAE Systems Australia
Canada
[edit]- Advertising Standards Canada
- Agence spatiale canadienne, the Canadian Space Agency
- Alberta Securities Commission
- Association des Scouts du Canada
United Kingdom
[edit]- Amalgamated Society of Core Makers of Great Britain and Ireland, former trade union
- Army Service Corps, the name of the Royal Army Service Corps between 1870 and 1918
- Association of Speakers Clubs, a group of public speaking clubs
United States
[edit]- Accounting Standards Codification, an official publication of financial accounting standards known as Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
- Accredited Standards Committee, an organizational division of the American National Standards Institute
- Aeronautical Systems Center, inactivated Air Force product center
- Airflow Sciences Corporation, an engineering consulting company in Livonia, Michigan
- American Shakespeare Center, a theatre company in Staunton, Virginia
- American Signal Corporation, a Tornado Siren company founded in 1942
- American Society for Cybernetics, an American non-profit scholastic organization
- American Society of Cinematographers, members use postnominal letters ASC
- American Society of Criminology
- American Society of Cytopathology
- American Softworks Corporation (ASC Games, 1992–2000), a former video game publishing company
- American Southwest Conference, an athletic conference
- American Specialty Cars, an automobile parts manufacturer
International
[edit]- Adorers of the Blood of Christ
- Aquaculture Stewardship Council, non-profit organisation and ecolabel
- Anti-Spyware Coalition, against computer spyware
- Asian Socialist Conference
Elsewhere
[edit]- Indian Army Service Corps, India
- Afrika-Studiecentrum Leiden (African Studies Centre), Netherlands
- Army Service Corps, a unit of the Pakistan Army
- Aviation Safety Council (now the Taiwan Transportation Safety Board), Taiwan
- Assets Scrutiny Committee, former government agency
Science and technology
[edit]- Abstract simplicial complex
- Apoptosis-associated speck-like protein containing a CARD, a protein encoded by the PYCARD gene
- Application Session Controller, an element of a telecommunications network
- Arnhem Space Centre, a spaceport in northern Australia
- Autism spectrum condition, a form of neurodivergence
Automotive
[edit]- Active Stability Control, Mitsubishi Electronic Stability Control system
- Automatic Stability Control, BMW traction control system, used in motorcycles such as BMW R1200RT
Computing
[edit]- Additional Sense Code, extension to a Key Code Qualifier error-code returned by a SCSI device
.asc
, computer filename extension used for some ASCII text files, and Server-Side ActionScript- Asynchronous serial communication
- Asynchronous serial controller, alternate name for universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter
- Australia Singapore Cable, submarine telecommunications cable
- TI Advanced Scientific Computer, 1966 supercomputer architecture
Other uses
[edit]- Admiralty Sailing Craft, a UK sailing dinghy
- After School Club, South Korean TV show
- Al Ahly SC, a sports club based in Cairo, Egypt
- Altered state of consciousness
- Ambulatory surgery center, a type of healthcare facility
- American Solar Challenge, solar car race
- American Song Contest, an American music competition
- Ashchurch for Tewkesbury railway station (UK National Rail code)
- Asian Science Camp
- ASC (musician), a musician producing electronic music