AAA, or Triple-A, may be a three-letter acronym or may just mean something that is high-quality, premier, or excellent.

As a proper noun, Aaa is found only in the species name Cavaticovelia aaa (aaa water treader), an insect from Hawaii.

As an acronym or abbreviation, the term AAA may refer to:

Economical, political, and social

Economical

• AAA Bond credit rating
• American Ambulance Association
• American Arbitration Association
• American Automobile Association a motor club, also called "Triple A",
• Australian Automobile Association, a member of the FIA
• American Academy of Actuaries

Political

• Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933, US federal legislation
• Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, US federal legislation
• Argentine Anticommunist Alliance, an Argentinian far-right death squad of the mid-1970s
• Alianza Americana Anticomunista ("American Anticommunist Alliance" in Spanish), a paramilitary far-right Colombian organization, 1978 1979
• Alianza Apost lica Anticomunista, in Spain; see 1977 Massacre of Atocha

Social

• Adopt-An-Alleyway Youth Empowerment Project, San Francisco, California

Places

• American Airlines Arena a theatre and sports arena in downtown Miami, Florida sponsored by American Airlines

Arts

• Allied Artists Association, an exhibiting society in London founded in 1908
• American Abstract Artists, an artist-run organization formed in 1936 to promote and foster public understanding of abstract art
• Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution archive in Washington, D.C.
• Associated American Artists, an art gallery and art marketing business

Architecture

• Alberta Association of Architects, a regulatory body

Literature

• A. A. Attanasio, Science fiction writer.
• AAA, a Japanese manga by Haruka Fukushima

Language Arts

• Accurate, adequate, and appropriate (AAA), words used to describe the quality of information, details, facts, evidence, etc. in nonfiction reading and writing

Music

• AAA, a series with contemporary art and music initiated by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam
• AAA (band), a Japanese pop band
• "AAA", the sixth track on City (1997), by Strapping Young Lad
• Access All Areas, a series of music CDs by the Scotland rock band Runrig.
• Adult album alternative, a radio format
• Against All Authority (-AAA-), an American ska-punk band
• American Accordionists' Association
• Angels & Airwaves, an American alternative rock band, also commonly referred to as "AVA"
• AntAcidAudio, an independent record label
• The lowest note on a piano (Sub-Contra)

Theatre

• Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, a British actor

Games

• TripleA an open source wargame
• AAA, the default name on many arcade machines

Sports

• Triple-A (baseball), the highest level of North American minor league baseball
• American Airlines Arena, a sports and entertainment venue in Miami, Florida, and the Miami Heat's home stadium
• Asistencia Asesor a y Administraci n, a Mexican wrestling promotion
• Amateur Athletic Association of England
• Arkansas Activities Association
• Asian Athletics Association
• Montreal AAA, Canada's oldest athletic association

Science and technology

Astronomy

• Amateur Achievement Award of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
• Association of Autonomous Astronauts

Aviation

• Anti-aircraft warfare, also known as Anti-aircraft Artillery or "Triple A"
• AAA, IATA airport code of Anaa Airport in French Polynesia
• AAA, ICAO airline code of Ansett Australia, an Australian airline
• AAA, FAA airport code of Logan County Airport (Illinois)
• AAA, Advanced Aircraft Analysis (Aircraft design, stability, and control analysis software)

Chemistry

• Acetic anhydride
• Arylalkanolamine
• Amino Acid Analysis

Computing

• AAA protocol, "Authentication, Authorization and Accounting", an access control, policy enforcement and auditing framework for computing systems
• Amiga Advanced Architecture chipset, hardware for a proposed Commodore Amiga computer
• ASCII adjust after addition, an Intel BCD opcode
• The highest of the three levels of web site accessibility measured by Web Content Accessibility Guidelines

Mathematics

• Angle-angle-angle, see Similarity (geometry)

Medicine

• AAA proteins (ATPases Associated with various cellular Activities)
• Triple A syndrome
• Abdominal aortic aneurysm
• American Association of Anatomists

Military

• Anti-Aircraft Artillery

Social science

• American Anthropological Association
• Ghotuo language (ISO 639-3 language code)

Technology

• AAA battery, a standard size of dry cell
• Analog-analog-analog, a designation for audio. refer analog recording

Communication

• The morse code for aerial attacker, used in conjunction with SOS

See also

• AAAA (disambiguation)
• AA (disambiguation)
• A (disambiguation)

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