ARC

'ARC' may refer to:

Contents

Business

Fiction

Politics

Religion

Research

Technology

Other

See also

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

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''

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

Religion

★ ARC (Scientology), a fundamental concept in Scientology methodology

★ Society for the Arts, Religion and Contemporary Culture, a religious organization

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

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

Other

★ Advance Reader Copy, a book is released by the book publisher before it has gone to press

★ 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 national rugby competition

★ Automation and Remote Control, a Russian periodical

See also

★ Arc