ARC
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ARC may refer to:
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[edit] Business
- African Rainforest Conservancy, an environmental nonprofit
- Airport Regions Conference, a European organization of major airports
- Amalgamated Roadstone Corporation, a British stone quarrying company
- American Record Company (1904–1908, re-activated 1979), one of two United States record labels by this name
- ARC (record company) (1929–1938), a United States record label also known as American Record Company
- American Reprographics Company
- Aqaba Railway Corporation, a freight railway in Jordan
- A&R Channel, American cable television video on demand network based in Los Angeles
- ARC/Architectural Resources Cambridge, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts
- ARC Diversified, a Cookeville, Tennessee non-profit that employs the severely disabled
- Archaeological Review from Cambridge, UK journal
[edit] Computing and gaming
- Adaptive replacement cache, a cache management algorithm
- Advanced Resource Connector, middleware for computational grids
- Advanced RISC Computing, a specification
- ARC (file format), a lossless data compression and archival file format
- ARC International, a computer processor designer
- ARC Macro Language, a high-level algorithmic language
- Attack Retrieve Capture, a free, multiplayer, 2D computer game
- Audio Return Channel, a feature of HDMI 1.4
[edit] Government and politics
- Administrative Reform Council, the military regime that governed Thailand following the 2006 coup d'état
- Administrative Reforms Commission, Indian Government commission
- Alien registration card (Japan), for foreign residents of Japan
- Alien Resident Certificate, for foreign residents of Taiwan
- Army Reconnaissance Course, United States Army Armor School, Fort Knox, Kentucky
- Appalachian Regional Commission, United States federal-state partnership
- Atlanta Regional Commission, a regional planning and intergovernmental coordination agency
- Auckland Regional Council, New Zealand local government entity
- Australian Research Council, government agency for allocating research funding
- Aviation Royale Canadienne, the Royal Canadian Air Force.
[edit] Humanitarian and religious organizations
- ARC triangle, Affinity, Reality and Communication, the component parts of Understanding in Scientology
- Alliance of Religions and Conservation, UK
- American Red Cross
- ARC Association for Real Change, UK organisation supporting people with a learning disability
- Arthritis Research Campaign, UK medical charity
- Association for Retarded Citizens, former name of the Arc of the United States
- Society for the Arts, Religion and Contemporary Culture, US
[edit] Culture
- Advance reading copy, an early copy of a book which is sent to reviewers, bookstores, and magazines
- A.R.C., an album by Circle (jazz band)
- ARC Europe (Accueil, Rencontre, Communauté), a eucumenical organisation which provides free guided tours in European cathedrals during the summer months
- ARC-170, a Star Wars starfighter
- ARChive of Contemporary Music, a music repository in New York City
- Art Renewal Center, an organization dedicated to classical realism in art
- Automation and Remote Control, a Russian periodical
- Canadian artist-run centres (ARCs), a series of galleries by artists in Canada
[edit] Research organizations
- Alberta Research Council, government funded applied R&D corporation
- Ames Research Center, a NASA facility located at Moffett Federal Airfield, California
- ARC in Karolinska Institutet, aging research center in Sweden
- Archival Research Catalog, National Archives and Records Administration catalog
- Arthritis Research Campaign, a British medical research charity
- Astrophysical Research Consortium, the organization that operates the Apache Point Observatory
- Augmentation Research Center, a center founded by electrical engineer Douglas Engelbart
- Australian Research Council, the Australian Government's main research funding body for tertiary institutions
- Aviation Research Centre, a part of the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) of the Cabinet Secretariat, India
[edit] Sport
- Adelaide Rowing Club, in Adelaide, South Australia
- African Rally Championship, international automobile rally
- ARC (football club) (Alphense Racing Club), Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands
- Athletics–Recreation Center, 5,000-seat multi-purpose arena, Valparaiso, Indiana
- Atlanta Rowing Club, Roswell, Georgia
- Atlantic Rally for Cruisers, transatlantic sailing competition
- Australian Rally Championship
- Australian Rugby Championship (August–October 2007), rugby union
[edit] Other
- Academy of Richmond County, a public secondary school in Augusta, Georgia
- Access to the Region's Core (ARC), Mass Transit Tunnel construction project between New Jersey and New York City
- AIDS-related complex, a condition in which antibody tests are positive for HIV
- American River College, a community college in Sacramento County, California
- ARC (Callsign), used by the Colombian National Armada ships
- ARC (station), Amtrak's station in Arcata, California
- ARC, the ISO-639-3 code for Official Aramaic language (spoken between 700 BCE and 300 BCE)
- AN/ARC-5, communications system used by U.S. Navy aircraft during and after World War II
- ARC, IATA airport code for Arctic Village Airport, Alaska
- Activity relationship chart, a tabular means of displaying closeness ratings between activities
- Anteater Recreation Center, an indoor gym at the University of California, Irvine
[edit] See also
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