ARC
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- For the word, see Arc
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ARC may refer to:
[edit] Business
- American Record Company (1904–1908), a United States record label
- American Record Corporation (1929–1938), a United States record label
- American Reprographics Company, the largest reprographics company in the United States
- ARC International, a computer processor designer
- ARC/Architectural Resources Cambridge, Inc., an architectural design firm located in Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Amalgamated Roadstone Corporation, a British stone quarrying company
- African Rainforest Conservancy, an environmental nonprofit
- ARC Diversified, a non-profit organization that manufactures food products and employs the severely disabled
[edit] Fiction
- Advanced Recon Commando, part of the elite special forces of clone troopers under the Grand Army of the Republic in the fictional Star Wars universe
- Andromeda Research Corporation, a fictional corporation in the computer game Uplink
- Anomaly Research Centre, the "Home Office" for the TV series Primeval
[edit] Government & Politics
- Administrative Reform Council, the military regime that governed Thailand following the 2006 coup d'état ousting Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra
- Alien registration card for foreign residents of Japan
- Appalachian Regional Commission, a United States federal-state partnership that works with the people of Appalachia
- Atlanta Regional Commission, a regional planning and intergovernmental coordination agency
- Auckland Regional Council, a local government entity of the Auckland Region of New Zealand
- Australian Research Council, the Australian Government’s main agency for allocating research funding to academics and researchers in Australian universities
[edit] Music and literature
- A.R.C. is an album by Circle (jazz band)
- Advance reading copy, an early copy of a book which is sent to reviewers, bookstores, and magazines
[edit] Religion
- Society for the Arts, Religion and Contemporary Culture, a religious organization
- In Scientology, it stands for Affinity, Reality and Communication, the component parts of Understanding
[edit] Research
- Aging Research Centre, an independent non-profit educational research centre with facilities in Berkeley, California and in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
- Alberta Research Council, an Alberta government funded applied research and development (R&D) corporation
- ARC in Karolinska Institutet, a multidisciplinary aging research center with collaboration from Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm University
- Arthritis Research Campaign, a British medical research charity dedicated to curing arthritis
- Augmentation Research Center, a center founded by electrical engineer Douglas Engelbart to develop and experiment with new tools and techniques for collaboration and information processing
- Australian Research Council, the Australian Government's main research funding body for tertiary institions
- Aviation Research Centre, a part of the Research and Analysis Wing of the Cabinet Secretariat
- NASA Ames Research Center, a NASA facility located at Moffett Federal Airfield
[edit] Technology
- Adaptive Replacement Cache, a cache management algorithm with better performance than LRU
- Advanced Resource Connector, a Grid middleware developed by NorduGrid
- Advanced RISC Computing, a specification promulgated by a defunct consortium of computer manufacturers
- ARC (file format), a file format by SEA that was very popular before Phil Katz's introduction of the ZIP format
- ARC Macro Language, a high-level algorithmic language for ArcInfo
- Aspect Ratio Converter, a hardware device which changes the Aspect Ratio of a Video Signal
[edit] Other
- Access to the Region’s Core, a construction project in New York City
- Advance Reader Copy, a book is released by the book publisher before it has gone to press
- Advanced Resource Connector, a middleware for computational grids
- AIDS-related complex, a condition in which antibody tests are positive for the HIV virus
- Alliance for Rabies Control, a charity working on eradicating rabies worldwide
- American Red Cross, a humanitarian organization that provides emergency assistance, disaster relief and education inside the United States
- American River College, a community college in Sacramento County, California
- ARC (Callsign), the acronym used by the Colombian National Armada ships
- ARC (language), a group of Semitic languages with a 3,000-year history
- ARC (station), Amtrak's station in Arcata, California
- Athletics-Recreation Center, a 5,000-seat multi-purpose arena in Valparaiso, Indiana
- Atlanta Rowing Club, a rowing club in Roswell, Georgia
- Atlantic Rally for Cruisers, a transatlantic sailing competition
- Attack Retrieve Capture, a free multiplayer, 2D computer game originally created by John Vechey and Brian Fiete as a college project
- Australian Rally Championship, a 6 Round National motorsport Championship run in forested countryside throughout Australia
- Australian Rugby Championship, a former Australian national rugby competition
- Automation and Remote Control, a Russian periodical
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