ABC Definition

ābē-sē
abcs
noun
The alphabet.
Webster's New World
The rudiments of reading and writing.
American Heritage
The basic or simplest elements (of a subject); rudiments.
Webster's New World
The rudiments of a subject.
Taught the ABCs of geometry.
American Heritage

(US, usually plural only, uncountable) The alphabet. [First attested from around (1150 to 1350).]

Do you know your ABCs?
Wiktionary
Synonyms:
abbreviation
American Bowling Congress.
Webster's New World
American Broadcasting Company.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of ABC

Noun

Singular:
ABC
Plural:
abcs

Origin of ABC

  • The first three letters of the Latin alphabet, standing for the whole alphabet

    From Wiktionary

ABC Sentence Examples

  • Hence in trilinear co-ordinates, with ABC as fundamental triangle, its equation is Pa+Q/1+R7=o.

  • If four fluids, a, b, c, d, meet in a point 0, and if a tetrahedron AB CD is formed so that its edge AB represents the tension of the surface of contact of the liquids a and b, BC that of b and c, and so on; then if we place this tetrahedron so that the face ABC is normal to the tangent at 0 to the line of concourse of the fluids abc, and turn it so that the edge AB is normal to the tangent plane at 0 to the surface of contact of the fluids a and b, then the other three faces of the tetrahedron will be normal to the tangents at 0 to the other three lines of concourse of the liquids, an the other five edges of the tetrahedron will be normal to the tangent planes at 0 to the other five surfaces of contact.

  • Let us imagine unit mass of solution of volume V confined in a cylinder ABC between a fixed vapour sieve B and a solid piston A A B C FIG.

  • On june harrah's be played at media company focused hbo espn ABC.

  • I abc 10 news san diego look the mountebank?

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