ARC
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ARC may refer to:
[edit] Business
- American Record Company, a United States record label
- American Reprographics Company, the largest reprographics company in the United States
- ARC International, a computer processor designer
- Airlines Reporting Corporation, a company which handles administrative functions for airlines
- ARC/Architectural Resources Cambridge, Inc., an architectural design firm located in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- Amalgamated Roadstone Corporation, a British stone quarrying company
[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
[edit] Music
- A.R.C. is an album by Circle (jazz band)
[edit] Politics
- Administrative Reform Council, the military regime that governed Thailand following the 2006 coup d'état ousting Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra
- Alien Residence Certificate, the certificate issued to foreign citizens legally permitted to reside in Taiwan
- Appalachian Regional Commission, a United States federal-state partnership that works with the people of Appalachia to create opportunities for self-sustaining economic development and improved quality of life
- 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] Religion
- Society for the Arts, Religion and Contemporary Culture, a religious organization
- Apologetic Research Center a Christian counter-cult organization based in northern and central Ohio. www.arcstudies.org
[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.
- Applied Research Center, a public policy institute advancing racial justice through research, advocacy and journalism
- 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
- The 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
- 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
- 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
- Art Renewal Center, an organization dedicated to classical realism in art
- Athletics-Recreation Center, a 5,000-seat multi-purpose arena in Valparaiso, Indiana
- 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
- "Authentic use, Restrictied use, and Clarification and focus". - a model for analyzing and understanding the structure of any ESL lesson (English as a Second Language), identified by Jim Scrivener in "Learning Teaching: A Guidebook for English Language Teachers" (Heinemann, 1994)
- Automation and Remote Control, a Russian periodical
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