Ace

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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

• American Cinema Editors (ACE) an honorary society of film editors
• Ace Books, a publisher of science fiction and fantasy novels
• Ace Comics, a comic book series
• ACE (games magazine)
• ACE Awards, later renamed the CableACE Awards
• New York Latin ACE Awards
• Ace and Vis, British radio presenters
• Another Century's Episode, a 2005 video game for the PlayStation 2

In music

• Ace (Bob Weir album)
• Aces (Suzy Bogguss album)
• Ace (Ian Van Dahl album)
• Ace (band), a British rock music group
• Ace (musical)
• Ace Hood, an American rapper
• The Aces (blues band)
• Ace Records (UK)
• Ace Records (US)
• The Aces (Jamaican group), Jamaican vocal group who also provided backing for Desmond Dekker

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

• HMS Ace (P414), an Amphion-class submarine of the Royal Navy

Air transportation

• Ace Aircraft Manufacturing Company, makers of homebuilt aircraft
• ACE Aviation Holdings, the parent company of Air Canada
• Aviation Centre of Excellence, the aviation department facility for Confederation College, Ontario
• ACE, IATA code for Lanzarote Airport in the Canary Islands, near Arrecife
• ACES Colombia, an airline
• Aviation combat element, the air arm of the US Marine Air-Ground Task Force
• Flying ace, a military aviator credited with shooting down five or more enemy aircraft during aerial combat

Rail transportation

• Atlantic City Express Service (ACES), express rail line running between New York City and Atlantic City, New Jersey, U.S.A.
• Altamont Commuter Express, a commuter train service in the San Francisco Bay Area connecting Stockton with San Jose
• Atlantic Coast Express, an express passenger train in England
• Kintetsu 22600 series "ACE", a Japanese limited express train
• EMD SD70ACe, diesel-electric locomotive

Land transportation

• Ace (1913 automobile), a British car built between 1912 and 1916
• Ace (1920 automobile), an American-assembled car made in Michigan
• Ace Motor Corporation, a motorcycle manufacturer
• AC Ace, a sports car from AC Cars
• Atlantic City Expressway, a toll road between Turnersville and Atlantic City in New Jersey.
• M9 Armored Combat Earthmover, an armored tracked vehicle
• Tata Ace, a small four wheeled truck made by the Indian company Tata

In science, technology and medicine

• Accumulated cyclone energy, a measure used to express the activity of hurricane seasons
• ACE (cable system), a planned undersea communications cable system to connect France and all West African coastal countries
• ACES (nutritional supplement), an antioxidant supplement
• ACeS, an Asia-specific satellite telecommunications company
• ACE unit, Acute Care of Elderly, a medical unit specific to the care of elderly individuals

In chemistry

• ACES (computational chemistry), a computational chemistry package
• ACE inhibitors, pharmaceuticals that are used primarily in treatment of hypertension and congestive heart failure
• Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE), an enzyme that triggers vasoconstriction
• Acepromazine, a drug commonly used as a sedative for animals, and (now rarely) for humans
• ACES (buffer), the compound N-(2-Acetamido)-2-aminoethanesulfonic acid, one of Good's buffers
• Acetylcholine esterase

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

• Advanced Crew Escape Suit, a full pressure suit worn by space shuttle astronauts during launch and re-entry
• Advanced Composition Explorer, a NASA satellite launched in 1997
• Antarctic Climate and the Earth System, a science programme
• Atomic Clock Ensemble in Space, a planned ultra-stable atomic clock system for installation on the International Space Station
• Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment, a satellite mission on board the Canadian satellite SCISAT-1, that takes measurements of the Earth's atmosphere

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

• ACE, the ISO 639 code for the Acehnese language
• Aces (parish), in Candamo, Spain
• Ace, Texas, USA
• Aces (Beanie Baby), a Beanie Baby bear exclusive to Las Vegas
• Accelerated Christian Education, a Christian educational curriculum
• Attempto Controlled English (ACE), a freely usable controlled natural language
• ACE Mobile Force (Land), a NATO military formation
• American Clean Energy and Security Act

See also

• All pages beginning with "Ace"
• All pages beginning with "ACE"
• All pages with titles containing "ace" (includes ACE)
• All pages with titles containing "aces" (includes ACES)

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