ASC explained

ASC may refer to:

Educational institutions

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

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
- ASC X9, responsible for standards for the financial services industry
- ASC X12, responsible for standards for business-to-business electronic data interchange
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

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

Active Stability Control, Mitsubishi Electronic Stability Control system
Automatic Stability Control, BMW traction control system, used in motorcycles such as BMW R1200RT

Additional Sense Code, extension to a Key Code Qualifier error-code returned by a SCSI device
<nowiki>.</nowiki>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