Ace (disambiguation)
An ace is a playing card.
Ace(s), ACE(S) and variants may also refer to:
Places
[edit]- Ace, ancient name of Acre, Israel
- Ace, Texas, United States, an unincorporated community
- ACE Basin, the estuaries of the Ashepoo, Combahee and Edisto Rivers in South Carolina, United States
- Aces (parish), Candamo, Spain
- Aces (river), a river of Asia
People and fictional characters
[edit]- Ace (name), includes people and fictional characters with the given name, nickname, surname, ring name or stage name
- Ace (musician), guitarist with Skunk Anansie
- Warren Furman, Ace from Gladiators
Arts, entertainment, and media
[edit]Awards
[edit]- ACE Awards (Award for Cable Excellence)
Comics
[edit]- Ace Comics, a 1937-1959 comic book series
- Ace Magazines (comics), a 1940-1956 a comic-book and pulp-magazine publishing company
Music
[edit]Groups
[edit]- Ace (band), a 1970s British rock group
- A.C.E (South Korean band), a South Korean boy group
- The Aces (blues band), a 1950s–1970s American group
- The Aces (indie pop band), a 2010s American group
- The Aces (Jamaican group), a 1965–1980s group, associated with Desmond Dekker
- The Aces (rock and roll band), a British group formed in the 1950s
Labels
[edit]Albums and songs
[edit]- Ace (Scooter album)
- Ace (Taemin EP)
- Ace (Ian Van Dahl album)
- Ace (Bob Weir album)
- Aces (album), by Suzy Bogguss
- "Aces" (song), by Suzy Bogguss
Video games
[edit]- Ace (video game), stylized as ACE, a 1985 flight simulator video game by Cascade Games
- A.C.E. Another Century's Episode, a 2005 video game for the PlayStation 2
- Ace Online, a flight-based online role-playing game
Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media
[edit]- Ace (film)
- Ace (musical) 2006
- ACE (games magazine)
- Ace (Wild Cards), a class of characters in the Wild Cards science fiction universe
- Ace Cinema, cinema in the London Borough of Harrow
Brands and enterprises
[edit]- Ace (brand), Latin American brand name for Tide detergent
- Ace Books, 1952–present, an American publisher of science fiction and fantasy
- Ace Cinemas, an Australian cinema chain
- Ace Hardware, an American retailers' cooperative
- ACE Limited, a Swiss insurance company
- Ace Radio, an Australian company
- ACE Team, a Chilean video game company
- Ace Tone, a musical instrument company
- ACeS, a regional satellite-telecommunications company based in Jakarta, Indonesia
- Aces Studio, a former video game company
- Rockman Ace, a guitar amplifier in the Rockman series
- Action Computer Enterprise, a defunct microcomputer company
- Accelerated Christian Education, an educational products company
- Action Construction Equipment, an Indian company
Government
[edit]- ACE Electoral Knowledge Network, a web portal
- Agriculture in Concert with the Environment, a US Environmental Protection Agency program
- American Clean Energy and Security Act (2009)
- Automation of Central Excise and Service Tax (ACES), an alternative name for India's Central Excise Mission Mode Project
Military
[edit]- ACES Meet, a multilateral air exercise
- Ace (military)
- Flying ace, a military aviator credited with shooting down a set number of enemy aircraft
- Panzer ace, an ahistorical, popular culture term to describe successful German tank commanders
- Allied Command Europe, central command of NATO forces in Europe
- Aviation combat element, the air arm of the US Marines Air-Ground Task Force
- Galil ACE, an assault rifle
- HMS Ace (P414), a British submarine
- M9 Armored Combat Earthmover, a tracked vehicle
- United States Army Corps of Engineers
Organizations
[edit]- Aberdeen Community Energy
- Advisory Committee of Experts on Slavery, abolitionist organization at the League of Nations
- Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment
- Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals
- Alternatives for Community and Environment, a Boston environmental justice organization
- American Cinema Editors
- American Coaster Enthusiasts
- American College of Epidemiology
- American Copy Editors Society
- American Council on Education
- Animal Charity Evaluators
- Anime Contents Expo, a trade fair
- Arts Council England
- Association for Comparative Economic Studies
- Association for Consciousness Exploration
- Association for Consultancy and Engineering
- Association of European Film Archives and Cinematheques (French: Association des Cinémathèques Européennes)
- Association of Latin Entertainment Critics (Spanish: Asociación de Cronistas de Espectáculos de Nueva York)
- Assyria Council of Europe, a lobbying organization based in Brussels
- Astronaute Club Européen, a French space tourism association
- Australian College of Educators
- Auxiliary Campus Enterprises and Services, an organization at Alfred College, US
Education
[edit]- Alternative Center for Excellence, a school in Danbury, Connecticut, US
- American College of Education, an online college based in Indianapolis, Indiana, US
- Aviation Centre of Excellence, a department of Confederation College in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
Science and technology
[edit]Aerospace
[edit]- Advanced Cryogenic Evolved Stage, a proposed rocket 2nd stage for ULA
- Advanced Composition Explorer, a NASA satellite
- Advanced Crew Escape Suit, an astronaut suit
- Atomic Clock Ensemble in Space, a European Space Agency project
- Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment, a project of the Canadian satellite SCISAT-1
- Asia Cellular Satellite system, a precursor of the Indonesian satellite company PT Pasifik Satelit Nusantara
Biology, chemistry, and healthcare
[edit]- A.C.E. mixture, an historical anesthetic
- Angiotensin-converting enzyme, a central component of the renin–angiotensin system (RAS), which controls blood pressure
- ACE inhibitor, a drug that lowers blood pressure
- Ace K, acesulfame potassium, an artificial sweetener
- ACE unit (Acute Care of Elderly), a type of hospital facility
- Acepromazine, an antipsychotic drug used primarily in animals
- ACES (buffer), one of Good's buffers
- ACES (nutritional supplement), containing vitamins A, C, E and selenium
- Adverse childhood experiences
- Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination
Computing
[edit]- ACE (compressed file format)
- Ace (editor), a code editor written in JavaScript
- ACE (editor), a desktop-based collaborative editor
- ACE (genomic file format)
- ACES (computational chemistry), a software package
- Access Control Entry, part of an access control list
- Acehnese language (ISO 639 code)
- Adaptive Communication Environment, an open-source network-programming framework
- Advanced Computerized Execution System, a stock-trading system
- Advanced Computing Environment, an early 1990s initiative for commodity computing hardware
- Agent-based computational economics
- Arbitrary code execution
- ASCII Compatible Encoding, a prefix related to internationalized domain names
- Asynchronous Compute Engine, a component defined in AMD's Graphics Core Next for ATI-type products
- Automatic Computing Engine, a 1952 British computer
- Automatic Content Extraction, an information-extraction technology-development program
- Jupiter Ace, a 1980s British computer
Other uses in science and technology
[edit]- Ace (quark model), an obsolete term for quark
- ACE (cable system), a submarine communications cable
- Academy Color Encoding System (ACES), a proposed color image encoding
- ACE experiment, the Antiproton Cell Experiment hosted at CERN
- Accumulated cyclone energy, commonly known as (ACE), metric used by various agencies to express the energy released by a tropical cyclone
- Aggregative Contingent Estimation, a program of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency
- Alternating conditional expectations, an algorithm in nonparametric regression.
- Alternative Chassis Engineering, a UK bus manufacturer, builder of the ACE Cougar
- Attempto Controlled English, a controlled natural language from the University of Zurich
Sports
[edit]Terminology
[edit]- Ace (baseball), a team's best starting pitcher
- Ace (golf), a hole in one
- Ace (pickleball), a serve that is not returned by the receiver
- Ace (tennis), a point won by the server without contest
- Ace formation, in American football
Teams
[edit]- Alaska Aces (ECHL), an American ice hockey team
- Alaska Aces (PBA), a Philippine basketball team
- Alexandria Aces, a defunct American baseball team in Louisiana
- Asheville Aces, a defunct American ice hockey team
- Belle Vue Aces, an English motorcycle speedway team
- Cornwall Aces, a Canadian ice hockey team playing 1993-1996
- Dallas Aces, the world's first professional bridge team
- Evansville Purple Aces, a college team of the University of Evansville
- Las Vegas Aces, an American basketball team
- Lower Merion High School Aces, the athletic teams at the school in suburban Philadelphia
- Melbourne Aces, an Australian baseball team founded 2009
- Northeast League Aces, a Canadian-American baseball team
- Quebec Aces, a Canadian ice hockey team playing 1928-1971
- Reno Aces, an American baseball team in Nevada
- Victoria Aces, an Australian baseball team founded 1934
Transportation
[edit]Automotive
[edit]- Ace (1913 automobile), a 1912-1916 British car
- Ace (1920 automobile), a 1920-1922 American car
- AC Ace, a 1953-1963 English car
- Atlantic City Expressway, a New Jersey toll road which is the main route between Atlantic City and Philadelphia
- Tata Ace, an Indian mini-truck introduced 2005
- Ace Motor Corporation, a 1919–1927 American motorcycle company
Aviation
[edit]- Ace Aircraft Manufacturing Company
- ACE Aviation Holdings, former parent company of Air Canada
- ACES Colombia, Aerolíneas Centrales de Colombia, a defunct airline
- Aircraft Engineering Corporation, now defunct
- Edel Ace, a South Korean paraglider design
- ACE, IATA code of Lanzarote Airport, Canary Islands, Spain
Rail
[edit]- Altamont Corridor Express, a California train service
- Atlantic City Express Service, a New York-New Jersey train service
- Atlantic Coast Express, an England train service
- Kintetsu 22600 series "Ace", a Japanese train type
- EMD SD70ACe, an American diesel-electric locomotive commonly referred to as an "Ace"
Other uses
[edit]- Action for Climate Empowerment, a United Nations term
- Ace, a term for an asexual person