Acme

Acme ( /ˈækmiː/; Greek: ακμή, the peak, zenith, prime) denotes the best of something.

Acme or ACME may also refer to:

Fiction and media

• Acme Corporation, a fictional company in the cartoon world of Looney Tunes
• ACME Detective Agency, a fictional detective agency from the Carmen Sandiego series of computer games and television shows
• Acme (album), the sixth album by the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
• Acme Novelty Library, a comics serial written and drawn by Chris Ware

Science and technology

• Advisory Committee on Mathematics Education, a British organisation
• ACME, open source development with Apache, ColdFusion, MySQL and Eclipse, coined by The ACME Guide book/PDF
• Acme (ADL), an architecture description language by Carnegie Mellon University
• Acme (automobile), an automobile built between 1903–1911 in Reading, Pennsylvania
• Acme (computer virus), a computer virus which infects Microsoft DOS EXE files
• ACME (health software) automated determination of cause of death, used by several governments for the generation of national mortality statistics
• Acme (text editor) is a text editor and development environment originally for the Plan 9 from Bell Labs operating system
• Acme thread form, a screw thread used in specialized applications such as vises and leadscrews

Companies

• ACME (Space), an architecture firm based in London
• Acme Aircraft Corporation, an aircraft manufacturer based in Rockford, Illinois, USA during the 1920s
• Acme Boots, a manufacturer of western footwear owned by Berkshire Hathaway
• Acme Bread Company, a bakery in Berkeley, California
• Acme Brick Company, a brick manufacturer that is a subsidiary of Berkshire, Hathaway
• ACME Comedy Theatre, a sketch comedy and improvisational theater located near Hollywood
• ACME Communications, a television broadcasting company, based in Santa Ana, USA
• Acme Fresh Market, a chain of grocery stores in Akron, Ohio, USA
• Acme Markets, a chain of grocery stores in the northeastern United States
• Acme Packet, a VoIP Session Border Controller manufacturer
• Acme Records, an independent record label
• Acme Tackle Company, a producer of fishing tackle in Providence, Rhode Island
• Acme Whistles, a major producer of whistles
• Air Craft Marine Engineering, an aircraft designer based in Van Nuys, California, USA during the 1950s
• Association of Management Consulting Engineers, an international not-for-profit association

Places

Canada

• Acme, Alberta

United States

• Acme, Indiana
• Acme Township, Michigan
• Acme Township, Hettinger County, North Dakota
• Acme, Pennsylvania
• Acme, Washington