Definition of Abc

ABC
1. <computer> 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 Steven.Pemberton@cwi.nl. ABC has been ported to Unix, MS-DOS, Atari, Macintosh.
Home.
FTP eu.net, FTP nluug.nl, FTP uunet.
Mailing list: abc-list-request@cwi.nl.
E-mail: abc@cwi.nl.
["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)

ABC
Flowchart
Musical Notation Language File (folk melodies originally)
Pro-Act (Activity Based Costing)

ABC
Atanasoff-Berry Computer

ABC
* Atanasoff-Berry Computer  (First digital

ABC
Already Been Chewed

ABC
The ABC structure contains the width of a character in a TrueType font.

typedef struct _ABC { // abc
int abcA;
UINT abcB;
int abcC;
} ABC;


Members

abcA

Specifies the "A" spacing of the character. The "A" spacing is the distance to add to the current position before drawing the character glyph.

abcB

Specifies the "B" spacing of the character. The "B" spacing is the width of the drawn portion of the character glyph.

abcC

Specifies the "C" spacing of the character. The "C" spacing is the distance to add to the current position to provide white space to the right of the character glyph.



Remarks

The total width of a character is the summation of the "A," "B," and "C" spaces. Either the "A" or the "C" space can be negative to indicate underhangs or overhangs.

See Also

GetCharABCWidths

ABC

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Noun
1. the elementary stages of any subject (usually plural); "he mastered only the rudiments of geometry"
(synonym) rudiment, first rudiment, first principle, alphabet, ABC's, ABCs
(hypernym) fundamentals, basics, fundamental principle, basic principle, bedrock
(classification) plural, plural form

ABC
Chinese person born and raised in Australia (standing for Australian-Born Chinese; in the US it is similarly used to stand for an American-Born Chinese)

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n : the elementary stages of any subject (usually plural); "he mastered the rudiments of geometry" [syn: rudiment, first rudiment , first principle, alphabet, abc, abc's , abcs]

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ABC
Advanced Base Components

ABC
activity based cost accounting - an accrual-based accounting method for determining unit-based costs of delivering services by allocating the costs to budgetary resources; it measures the performance and costs related to a specific activity or function.

Context: General 

Aroma Behavior Conditioning (ABC)
Combination of aromatherapy and NLP. The Myotherapy Institute Research Center (see "Acutherapy") offered a program in ABC but discontinued it before early June 1996.

ABC
abbreviation for
Airway, Breathing and Circulation: the basic initial checks of a casualty's condition

ABC
Airway, Breathing, Circulation

ABC
Aspiration biopsy cytology

ABC
Activity Based Costing

Activity Based Costing (ABC)
attempting to allocate all costs to where they actually arise, including costs that cross functional boundaries; in this way efficiency and effectiveness can be measured and controlled; it's all the rage (see cost and profit centres).

Audit Bureau of Circulation Ltd. (ABC)
an independent body set up by the advertisers and funded by advertisers, media owners and advertising agencies to monitor and officially audit circulation figures; its to stop media companies falsifying their circulation figures.

ABC
Audit Bureau of Circulation. A service organization that validates publishers' circulation claims through regularly scheduled audits.

Context: Print Advertising

ABCB
ABC Bancorp
Exchange: Nasdaq
Bank holding company with subsidiaries which perform commercial banking operations, credit card services, trust services, investment banking services and other related financial activities.

ABCC
ABC DISPENSING TECHNOLOGI
Exchange: OTCBB
Not Available

ABCX
ABC Co
Exchange: OTCBB
Not Available

ABC
Automatic Brightness Control

ABC
After Bottom Center

ABC
Access Bearer Control,
Always Best Connected,
Administration and Billing Center

ABC
AIRBORNE CIGAR. A jamming de vice to interfere with enemy RT channels in the 30-33 MHz, 38.3-42.5 MHz and 48-52 MHz wavebands. Range 50 miles.

ABC
ABC World Airways Guide Dunstable Bedforshire UK

ABC
Active Body Control

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[Mercedes]

ABC
Administration and Billing Center

ABC
See Association of Boards of Certification.

ABC

1 part Amaretto
1 part Bailey's
1 part Cointreau
Serve in a lowball glass.

American Bowling Congress (ABC)
The world's largest sports organization and the official rule-making body of tenpin bowling.

ABC

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