An ace is a playing card.
Ace, Aces, ACE or ACES may also refer to:
In sports
- Ace (baseball), the best starting pitcher on a baseball team
- Ace (golf), a hole in one
- Ace (tennis), a point won by the server without contest
- Alaska Aces (ECHL), a minor league ice hockey team
- Alaska Aces (PBA), a Philippine Basketball Association team
- Cornwall Aces, a former professional hockey team
- Loughborough Aces, Loughborough University (UK) American Football team
- Lower Merion High School Aces, the athletics teams at Lower Merion High School
- Quebec Aces, a professional hockey team
- Reno Aces, a Minor League Baseball team in the Pacific Coast League based in Reno, Nevada
- Northeast League Aces, a team in the Canadian American Association of Professional Baseball
- Dallas Aces, the world's first professional bridge team
In entertainment
In music
Fictional characters
- Ace (Justice League), a member of the Royal Flush Gang in the Justice League animated series
- Ace (Doctor Who), a character in the Doctor Who television series
- Ace (G.I. Joe), a character in the G.I. Joe universe
- Ace the Bat-Hound, a canine crime-fighting partner of Batman
- Ace the Wonder Dog, a canine actor active in the 1930s and 1940s
- Ace Blackwell, character in Half & Half
- Ace Bunny, character in Loonatics Unleashed
- Ace Lightning (character), character in Ace Lightning
- Portgas D. Ace, character in One Piece
- Ace Rimmer or Arnold Rimmer, character in Red Dwarf
- Ace Ventura, character in Ace Ventura media
- Acid Ace, a supporting |character in Mega Man Star Force 3
In transportation
Air transportation
Rail transportation
Land transportation
In science, technology and medicine
In chemistry
In computer science
- ACE (editor), a multi-platform collaborative editor
- ACE (file format), a data compression and archiving format
- ACE (software), virtualisation software from VMware
- Adaptive Communication Environment, a cross-platform C++ framework for concurrent software
- The ACE ORB (TAO), a free CORBA implementation based on the Adaptive Communication Environment
- Advanced Computerized Execution System, an electronic order-routing system
- Advanced Computing Environment, a defunct computer initiative to define a "new PC" based on MIPS CPUs instead of Intel x86
- Agent-Based Computational Economics, the computational study of economic processes modeled as dynamic systems of interacting agents
- Automatic Computing Engine, a 1952 British computer
- Jupiter Ace, a FORTH-based home computer
- ASCII Compatible Encoding, in the context of internationalized domain names
- Access Control Entry, a Microsoft Windows NTFS security element
- ACE Workbench Foundation, a web portal framework in use at UBS AG
In Earth and space science
People
- Ace Adams (1912 - 2006), baseball player
- Ace Backwords, underground cartoonist
- Ace Bailey (1903 - 1992), hockey player
- Ace Brigode (1893 - 1960), band leader
- Ace Darling (born 1974), stage name for professional wrestler Mike Maraldo
- Ace Frehley (born 1951), rock and roll guitarist and member of the rock band Kiss
- Ace Hood (born 1989), American rapper
- Ace Rusevski (born 1956) retired Macedonian boxer who represented Yugoslavia at the 1976 Summer Olympics
- Ace Vergel (1952 - 2007), Filipino actor
- Ace Young (born 1980), finalist in the TV series American Idol
- Ace, nickname for Rich Franklin (born 1974), mixed martial artist
- Ace, nickname for the New York Yankees relief pitcher Alfredo Aceves (born 1982)
- Dylan Ace (born 1981), American magician and escape artist
Businesses and organizations
- ACE Ltd., a property and casualty insurer
- Ace Chemical, a Korean chemical company
- Ace Cinemas, a cinema chain in Australia
- Ace Industry, a Korean chemical company
- Ace Tone, a manufacturer of musical instruments
- Ace Hardware
- Ace Radio, an Australian radio company
- Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals
- American Cinema Editors
- American Coaster Enthusiasts
- American College of Epidemiology
- American Copy Editors Society
- American Council on Education
- American Council on Exercise
- Arts Council England
- Association for Consciousness Exploration
- Association for Consultancy and Engineering, UK business association
- Association of Latin Entertainment Critics
- Astronaute Club Européen
- Australian Centre for Egyptology
- Auxiliary Campus Enterprises and Services, at Alfred College, United States
- ACeS, the Asia Cellular Satellite System
- Ace, Latin American brand name for Tide detergent
Other uses
See also
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