Usually means: Absolute value of a number.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. ABS, ABs, Abs, abs: Merriam-Webster
  2. ABS, abs, abs-: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ABS, abs: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. abs: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ABS: Vocabulary.com
  6. AB's, ABs, Ab's, Abs, ab's, abs: Wordnik
  7. ABS, abs: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. ABS, ABs, Abs, abs, abs-: Wiktionary
  9. abs, abs-: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. abs-: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. abs: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. a.b.s, abs, abs, abs-: Dictionary.com
  13. AB'S, ABS (TV station), ABS (company), ABS (disambiguation), ABS (satellite operator), ABS, Abs(), Abs (Yemen), Abs: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. abs-: MyWord.info
  15. ABS, Abs, abs, abs: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  16. abs: FreeDictionary.org
  17. abs: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. ABS, Abs-: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. abs: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  20. abs: Merriam-Webster

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. abs-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. abs: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  3. Derivatives (No longer online)
  4. ABS: Investopedia
  5. Comprehensive Financial (No longer online)
  6. Abbreviations in shipping (No longer online)
  7. ABS: Financial dictionary
  8. Glossary of Trade and Shipping Terms (No longer online)
  9. Glossary of Trucking Terms (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  2. Webopedia (No longer online)
  3. Abs(), Abs-, abs: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. ABs: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Abs: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  4. Abs-, abs: Medical dictionary
  5. Abs: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. ABS: Acronym Finder
  2. ABS: Three Letter Words with definitions
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Abs: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. abs: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. A.B.S, A.B.S, Abs: Urban Dictionary

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. ABS: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Abs, abs: Construction deterioration & building durability glossary
  4. Subaru-Speak (No longer online)
  5. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)
  6. ABS: Latitude Mexico

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (informal) The abdominal muscles. plural of ab
noun:  plumbing pipes composed of this plastic.
noun:  (rugby) All Blacks, the New Zealand national rugby team.
adjective:  Abbreviation of abstract. [(obsolete) Derived; extracted.]
noun:  Acronym of absolute temperature. [Thermodynamic temperature; temperature measured on an absolute scale such as the Kelvin scale.]
noun:  (mathematics) Initialism of absolute value function.
noun:  (automotive) Initialism of antilock braking system.
noun:  (organic chemistry) Initialism of acrylonitrile butadiene styrene. [(organic chemistry) An amorphous thermoplastic polymer made by polymerizing styrene and acrylonitrile in the presence of polybutadiene.]
noun:  (plumbing, informal, humorous) Initialism of all-black stuff: i.e. acrylonitrile butadiene styrene, referring to the black color of the waste water
noun:  Initialism of automatic block signaling.
noun:  Initialism of auto-brewery syndrome. [(pathology) A condition in which the contents of the sufferer’s stomach ferment, creating alcohol. A urinary analogue exists, whereby high urinary glucose may ferment within the bladder.]
noun:  (computing) Initialism of Arch build system.
noun:  (Australia) Initialism of Australian Bureau of Statistics.
noun:  (Philippines, colloquial) Ellipsis of ABS-CBN.

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