AAA

AAA

1. A standard size of dry cell battery smaller than AA.

Usually pronounced as either triple A or three A.

AAA (plural AAAs)

1. (medicine) Initialism of abdominal aortic aneurysm.
2. (organic chemistry) Initialism of aromatic amino acid.
3. (military) Initialism of anti-aircraft artillery.
4. (psychology) Initialism of animal-assisted activity.

AAA

1. (US, historical, law) Initialism of Agricultural Adjustment Act.
2. (US, historical, law) Initialism of Agricultural Adjustment Administration.
   • 2001, James S. Olson, “Agricultural Adjustment Administration”, in Historical Dictionary of the Great Depression, 1929–1940, Greenwood Press, →ISBN, page 5:

     Black's ideas were first implemented when Congress passed the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933,* which became the heart and soul of New Deal* agricultural policy. The legislation created the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) to implement Black's ideas. […] Under the Agricultural Adjustment Act, the AAA would negotiate “marketing agreements” in which individual farmers agreed to reduce production.

3. (US) Initialism of American Anthropological Association.
   • 2003, Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban, “Introduction”, in Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban, editor, Ethics and the Profession of Anthropology: Dialogue for Ethically Conscious Practice, 2nd edition, AltaMira Press, →ISBN, page xii:

     Through its major professional organization, the American Anthropological Association (AAA), the discipline hoped to find a solution to its crisis through reorganization. Completed in 1984, nine affiliated societies signed a merger agreement with the AAA.

4. Initialism of Abortion Assistance Association.
5. Initialism of All American Aviation.
6. Initialism of Allegheny Airlines.
7. (British, art, historical) Initialism of Allied Artists' Association.
8. Initialism of Allied Artists of America.

AAA

1. (sports, Canada, US) The highest level of minor league baseball, often used by extension in other sports to indicate the highest level of minor league play in that sport as well.
2. A very narrow shoe size.
3. (finance) The highest credit rating given by debt analysis agencies such as Standard & Poor's, Moody's, and A.M. Best.
4. (video games) A quality video game expected to sell well, typically with a higher budget than budget software.[1]

AAA

1. Access All Areas, Sony music project
2. Access Approval Authority
3. Accumulated Adjustments Account, in US Federal Income Tax
4. Acquisition Approval Authority
5. Action Awareness Alert
6. (US, dated) Actors and Artistes of America now, the AAAA.
7. Adaptive array antenna
8. Administration, authorization, and authentication, in software security
9. Advanced acoustic array
10. AEGIS acquisition agent
11. Aerospace engineering, applied mechanics, and aviation
12. Agricultural Aviation Association
13. Agricultural Adjustment Association
14. Air avenue of approach
15. Airborne array aperture
16. Airborne assault area
17. Aircraft alert area
18. Airport airspace analysis
19. Alaska
20. Allocations, assessments, and analysis
21. Alternate assembly area
22. (British) Amateur Athletic Association
23. American Abstract Artists
24. (dated) American Academy of Allergy, now see AAAAI
25. American Academy of Actuaries
26. American Academy of Advertising
27. American Accordionists Association
28. American Accounting Association
29. American Airship Association
30. American Ambulance Association
31. American Antarctic Association
32. American Arbitration Association
33. American Association of Anatomists
34. American Astronomers Association
35. American Australian Association
36. (US) American Automobile Association
37. Angle angle angle, a geometric proof
38. ANSI Artists of America
39. Antique Airplane Association
40. Appraisers Association of America
41. Archives of American Art
42. Area-Agency on Aging
43. Argentine Anticommunist Alliance
44. Armenian Assembly of America
45. Army Athletic Association
46. (dated, US) Army Audit Agency, the USAAA, United States Army Audit Agency.
47. Arrival and assembly area
48. Assign alternate area
49. Associated Agents of America
50. Association of Accounting Administrators
51. Association of Average Adjusters
52. Astronaut-actuated abort
53. Attitude, awareness and accountability, a ski safety program
54. (dated) Australian Association of Accountants
55. Australian Automobile Association
56. Authentication, authorization and accounting
57. Authorization accounting activity; authorized accounting activity
58. Automated airlift analysis
59. Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados (Aqueduct and Sewer Authority, Puerto Rico)
60. Awaiting aircraft availability