# Ace (disambiguation)

An ace is a playing card.
Ace(s), ACE(S) and variants may also refer to:

## Arts, entertainment, and media
### Awards

* ACE Awards (Award for Cable Excellence)

### Comics

* Ace Comics, a 1937-1959 comic book series
* Ace Magazines (comics), a 1940-1956 a comic-book and pulp-magazine publishing company

### Music
#### Groups

* Ace (band), a 1970s British rock 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
* A.C.E (South Korean band), a South Korean boy group
* The Aces (rock and roll band), a British group formed in the 1950s

#### Labels

* Ace Records (United Kingdom)
* Ace Records (United States)

#### Albums and songs

* Ace (Bob Weir album)
* Ace (Ian Van Dahl album)
* Aces (album), by Suzy Bogguss
** "Aces" (song), by Suzy Bogguss
* Ace (Scooter album)
* Ace (Taemin EP)

### Video games

* A.C.E. Another Century's Episode, a 2005 video game for the PlayStation 2

### Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

* Ace Cinema, cinema in the London Borough of Harrow
* Ace (film)
* ACE (games magazine)
* Ace (musical) 2006
* Ace (Wild Cards), a class of characters in the Wild Cards science fiction universe

## Aviation

* Ace Aircraft Manufacturing Company
* ACE Aviation Holdings, former parent company of Air Canada
* Ace Online, a flight-based online role-playing game
* ACES Colombia, Aerolíneas Centrales de Colombia, a defunct airline
* Ace (video game), stylized as ACE, a 1985 flight simulator video game by Cascade Games
* Aircraft Engineering Corporation, now defunct
* Aviation Centre of Excellence, a department of Confederation College in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
* Aviation combat element, the air arm of the US Marines Air-Ground Task Force
* Edel Ace, a South Korean paraglider design
* IATA airport code of Lanzarote Airport in Canary Islands, Spain

## Brands and enterprises

* Accelerated Christian Education, an educational products company
* Ace Books, 1952–present, an American publisher of science fiction and fantasy
* Ace (brand), Latin American brand name for Tide detergent
* Ace Cinemas, an Australian cinema chain
* Ace Hardware, an American retailers' cooperative
* ACE Limited, a Swiss insurance company
* Ace Radio, an Australian company
* ACeS, a regional satellite-telecommunications company based in Jakarta, Indonesia
* Aces Studio, a former video game company
* ACE Team, a Chilean video game company
* Ace Tone, a musical instrument company
* Action Computer Enterprise, a defunct microcomputer company
* Action Construction Equipment, an Indian company
* Rockman Ace, a guitar amplifier in the Rockman series

## Education

* Alternative Center for Excellence, a school in Danbury, Connecticut, US
* American College of Education, an online college based in Indianapolis, Indiana, US

## Government

* 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

* 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
* ACES Meet, a multilateral air exercise
* Allied Command Europe, central command of NATO forces in Europe
* 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

* 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

## People and fictional characters

* Ace (musician), guitarist with Skunk Anansie
* Ace (name), includes people and fictional characters with the given name, nickname, surname, ring name or stage name
* Warren Furman, Ace from Gladiators

## Places

* Ace, ancient name of Acre, Israel
* 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
* Ace, Texas, United States, an unincorporated community

## Science and technology
### Aerospace

* Advanced Composition Explorer, a NASA satellite
* Advanced Crew Escape Suit, an astronaut suit
* Advanced Cryogenic Evolved Stage, a proposed rocket 2nd stage for ULA
* Asia Cellular Satellite system, a precursor of the Indonesian satellite company PT Pasifik Satelit Nusantara
* Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment, a project of the Canadian satellite SCISAT-1
* Atomic Clock Ensemble in Space, a European Space Agency project

### Biology, chemistry, and healthcare

* ACE inhibitor, a drug that lowers blood pressure
* Ace K, acesulfame potassium, an artificial sweetener
* A.C.E. mixture, an historical anesthetic
* 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
* ACE unit (Acute Care of Elderly), a type of hospital facility
* Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination
* Adverse childhood experiences
* Angiotensin-converting enzyme, a central component of the renin–angiotensin system (RAS), which controls blood pressure

### Computing

* Access Control Entry, part of an access control list
* ACE (compressed file format)
* Ace (editor), a code editor written in JavaScript
* ACE (editor), a desktop-based collaborative editor
* ACE (genomic file format)
* Acehnese language (ISO 639 code)
* ACES (computational chemistry), a software package
* 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

* Academy Color Encoding System (ACES), a proposed color image encoding
* Accumulated cyclone energy, commonly known as (ACE), metric used by various agencies to express the energy released by a tropical cyclone
* ACE (cable system), a submarine communications cable
* ACE experiment, the Antiproton Cell Experiment hosted at CERN
* Ace (quark model), an obsolete term for quark
* 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
### Terminology

* Ace (baseball), a team's best starting pitcher
* Ace formation, in American football
* 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

### Teams

* 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
### Automotive

* AC Ace, a 1953-1963 English car
* Ace Motor Corporation, a 1919–1927 American motorcycle company
* Ace (1913 automobile), a 1912-1916 British car
* Ace (1920 automobile), a 1920-1922 American 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

### Rail

* 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
* EMD SD70ACe, an American diesel-electric locomotive commonly referred to as an "Ace"
* Kintetsu 22600 series "Ace", a Japanese train type
* IND Eighth Avenue Line, New York City Subway line served by the A, C, and E trains

## Other uses

* Ace, a term for an asexual person
* Action for Climate Empowerment, a United Nations term