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ACS

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ACS or Acs may refer to:

Organizations and societies

Companies and commerce

  • ACS:Law, a British law firm specializing in intellectual property cases
  • Advanced Card Systems, a Hong Kong-based developer of smart cards and smart card readers
  • Advanced Composites Solutions, a Brazilian engineering company specialized in composite materials technology
  • Advanced Contact Solutions, a Philippine business process outsourcing company
  • Affiliated Computer Services, an America business and technology outsourcing company
  • Air Cess, a cargo airline based in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
  • Alaska Communications System, former name of AT&T Alascom, an American communications services company
  • Alaska Communications Systems, an American communications services company, distinct from AT&T Alascom
  • Alternative compensation system, a way to allow reproduction of digital copyrighted works while still paying the authors and copyright owners
  • Applied Communication Sciences, a telecommunications research, engineering and consulting company based in the US
  • Grupo ACS (Actividades de Construcción y Servicios), a civil engineering firm based in Madrid, Spain

Computing and technology

  • ACS-1 and ACS-360, supercomputers designed but never completed in the 1960s by the IBM Advanced Computing Systems
  • Access Control Service, a cloud-based service for authentication and authorization
  • Access Control Server, a component of Cisco's Network Admission Control technology
  • Access Control Server, the server authenticating a card in the 3-D Secure framework
  • Action Code Script, a scripting language used in video games such as HeXen and Doom ports
  • Adobe Creative Suite, a software package by Adobe Inc.
  • Advanced Camera for Surveys, an instrument aboard the Hubble Space Telescope
  • Air cavity system, a modern marine craft design concept based upon capturing air beneath a vessel's hull to reduce drag and increase speed and fuel efficiency
  • Atacama Large Millimeter Array ("ALMA") Common Software, a control framework used in ground-based astronomy projects
  • Attitude control system, a spacecraft system
  • Audit Collection Services, a component of Microsoft System Center Operations Manager

Education

Government

  • American Community Survey, a project of the US Census Bureau
  • Administration for Children's Services, governmental agency of New York City
  • Australian Customs Service, the Australian government agency responsible for Australian border protection between 1985 and 2009

Medicine and science

  • 2-Amino-3-carboxymuconic semialdehyde, a chemical in tryptophan metabolism
  • Acetyl-CoA Synthetase, an enzyme
  • Acute coronary syndrome, a form of chest pain due to reduced oxygen supply to the heart muscle
  • Advanced Cataract Surgery, the modern method of cataract removal using phacoemulsification
  • Anticenter shell, a supershell located outside of the galaxy
  • Atriocaval shunt, a surgical procedure

Military

  • Aerial Common Sensor, a Lockheed Martin reconnaissance aircraft airframe for the US Army and Navy
  • Army Combat Shirt, flame-resistant shirt developed for the US Army
  • Auxiliary crane ship, a vessel of the US Navy
  • Cavalry Corps (Ireland) (1st Armoured Cavalry Squadron), an armoured reconnaissance unit of the Irish Army

Places

Other uses

  • Acs (surname), a surname
  • An abbreviation for Acroá language, an extinct Ge language of Brazil
  • Applied Computer Science, scientific journal


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