ARC

ARC may stand for:

Business

*ARC Diversified, a non-profit organization that manufactures food products and employs the severely disabled
*ARC/Architectural Resources Cambridge, Inc., an architectural design firm located in Cambridge, Massachusetts
*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
*Amalgamated Roadstone Corporation, a British stone quarrying company
*African Rainforest Conservancy, an environmental nonprofit

Computing and gaming

*Attack Retrieve Capture, a free, multiplayer, 2D computer game originally created by John Vechey and Brian Fiete
*ARC (file format), a file format by SEA that was very popular before Phil Katz's introduction of the ZIP format
*ARC International, a computer processor designer
*ARC Macro Language, a high-level algorithmic language for ArcInfo geographic information systems
*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
*Advanced Resource Connector, a middleware for computational grids
*Aspect Ratio Converter, a hardware device which changes the Aspect Ratio of a Video Signal

Government and politics

*Administrative Reform Council, the military regime that governed Thailand following the 2006 coup d'état ousting Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra
*Administrative Reforms Commission, the commission appointed by Government of India for reforms in public administration
*A Japanese alien registration card
*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
*Alien Resident Certificate, for foreign residents of Taiwan

Humanitarian and religious organizations

*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
*Arthritis Research Campaign, UK medical charity
*Society for the Arts, Religion and Contemporary Culture, a religious organization
*Affinity, Reality and Communication, the component parts of Understanding in Scientology

Modern culture

*Advance reading copy, an early copy of a book which is sent to reviewers, bookstores, and magazines
*Andromeda Research Corporation, a fictional corporation in the computer game "Uplink"
*Anomaly Research Centre, the "Home Office" for the TV series "Primeval"
*Automation and Remote Control, a Russian periodical
*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=Engineering=

*"A.R.C.", an album by Circle (jazz band)

Research organizations

*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

port

*African Rally Championship, an international automobile rally championship
*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
*Australian Rally Championship, a 6 Round National motorsport Championship run in forested countryside throughout Australia
*Australian Rugby Championship, a former Australian national rugby competition

Other

*ARC-5, a series of radio receivers, transmitters, and accessories used by U.S. Navy aircraft during World War II and some years after
*ARC (Callsign), the acronym used by the Colombian National Armada ships
*ARC (station), Amtrak's station in Arcata, California
*ARC (language), or Aramaic, a group of Semitic languages with a 3,000-year history
*Arc @ UNSW, the principal student organisation at the University of New South Wales
*Access to the Region’s Core, a construction project in New York City
*AIDS-related complex, a condition in which antibody tests are positive for the HIV virus
*American River College, a community college in Sacramento County, California

ee also

*Ark
*Arch
*ARCS
*ARC-170
*Advanced Recon Commando