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This page is about ARC as an initialism. For the word, see Arc (disambiguation).

ARC may refer to:

Businesses

• Aircraft Radio Corporation, a major avionics manufacturer from the 1920s to the '50s
• Airlines Reporting Corporation, an airline-owned company that provides ticket distribution, reporting, and settlement services
• Airport Regions Conference, a European organization of major airports
• Alignment Research Center, an AI alignment research organization
• 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
• American Record Corporation (1929–1938), a United States record label also known as American Record Company
• ARC (American Recording Company) (1978-present), a vanity label for Earth, Wind & Fire
• ARC Document Solutions, a company based in California, formerly American Reprographics Company
• Amey Roadstone Construction, a former British construction company
• Aqaba Railway Corporation, a freight railway in Jordan
• ARC/Architectural Resources Cambridge, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts
• ARC Diversified, a Cookeville, Tennessee non-profit that employs the severely disabled
• ARC International, a computer processor designer, and a subsidiary of Synopsys
• ARC Resources, a Canadian oil and natural gas company
• Arena Racing Company, a British racecourse owning group

Computing

• Adaptive replacement cache, a cache management algorithm
• Advanced Resource Connector, middleware for computational grids
• Advanced RISC Computing, a specification
• Google App Runtime for Chrome, a compatibility layer and sandboxing technology to run Android applications on Chromebook computers
• ARC (file format), a lossless data compression and archival file format
• Automatic Relay Computer, an early electromechanical computer
• ARC-AGI, Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus for Artificial General Intelligence
• ARC (processor), a family of embedded microprocessors
• ARC Macro Language, a high-level algorithmic language
• Audio Return Channel, a feature of HDMI 1.4
• Authenticated Received Chain, an email authentication system
• Automatic Reference Counting, an Objective-C and Swift memory management feature
• Intel Arc, a brand of graphics processing units designed by Intel
• Arc (web browser), a chromium based web browser "reimagination" released in 2022 with a focus on modern design

Arts and entertainment

• Advance reading copy of a book, for reviewers, librarians, and booksellers
• A.R.C. (album), a 1971 album by Chick Corea, Dave Holland, and Barry Altschul
• ARC Europe, association of motoring clubs
• ARChive of Contemporary Music, a music repository in New York City, US
• ARC Magazine (Art. Recognition. Culture.), Caribbean
• Art Renewal Center
• Canadian artist-run centres
• Armored Response Coalition, a fictional military/resistance organization seen in the 2020 video game Doom Eternal
• Attack Retrieve Capture
• ARC Raiders

Government and politics

• Administrative Reforms Commission, an Indian Government commission
• Administrative Reform Council, the military regime that governed Thailand following the 2006 coup d'état
• Agence du revenu du Canada, the French-language name for the Canada Revenue Agency
• Alien registration card (Japan), for foreign residents of Japan
• Alien Resident Certificate, for foreign residents of Taiwan
• Appalachian Regional Commission, a United States federal-state partnership
• Atlanta Regional Commission, a regional planning and intergovernmental coordination agency
• Auckland Regional Council, a former New Zealand local government entity
• Australian Research Council, a government agency for allocating research funding
• Autonomous Republic of Crimea, an internationally recognized autonomous republic in Ukraine
• Aviation Royale Canadienne, the French-language name for the Royal Canadian Air Force

Humanitarian, activist and religious organizations

• Abortion Rights Campaign, Ireland
• African Rainforest Conservancy
• Alliance for Responsible Citizenship
• Alliance of Reformed Churches
• Alliance of Religions and Conservation, UK
• American Red Cross
• American Refugee Committee
• Anti-Recidivism Coalition, Los Angeles, US
• ARC Association for Real Change, of UK providers of services to people with a learning disability
• Arc of the United States
• Arthritis Research Campaign, UK
• Australian Red Cross
• Autism Resource Centre (Singapore), a Singapore-based non-profit organisation
• Society for the Arts, Religion and Contemporary Culture, US
• Alliance Rose Croix, another name for the Order of the Solar Temple

Research and science

• Agricultural Research Council, a former British organisation that funded agricultural research
• Agulhas Return Current, an ocean current in the Indian Ocean
• AIDS-related complex, a condition in which antibody tests are positive for HIV
• Alberta Research Council, government funded applied R&D corporation
• Allergic rhinoconjunctivitis, inflammation of the conjunctiva and nose due to allergy
• American Rocketry Challenge, an American model rocketry competition for high school students
• Ames Research Center, a NASA facility located at Moffett Federal Airfield, California
• ARC fusion reactor, Affordable, Robust Compact reactor, a reactor design from MIT
• ARC (protein) (activity-regulated cytoskeleton-associated protein)
• Archaeological Review from Cambridge, a UK journal
• Archival Research Catalog, National Archives and Records Administration catalog
• Arcuate nucleus (hypothalamus), an aggregation of neurons in the mediobasal hypothalamus
• 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
• Augmented renal clearance, a pharmacokinetic consideration in critically ill persons
• Australian Research Council, the Australian Government's main research funding body for tertiary institutions
• Automation and Remote Control, a Russian periodical
• Aviation Research Centre, a part of the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) of the Cabinet Secretariat, India

Sports

• Adelaide Rowing Club, in Adelaide, South Australia
• African Rally Championship, international automobile rally
• SV ARC (Alphense Racing Club), Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands, a Dutch football club
• American Rivers Conference, an NCAA Division III athletic conference operating mainly in Iowa with one member in Nebraska
• Americas Rugby Championship
• Anteater Recreation Center, an indoor gym at the University of California, Irvine
• Athletics–Recreation Center, a 5,000-seat multi-purpose arena on the campus of Valparaiso University in Valparaiso, Indiana
• Atlanta Rowing Club, Roswell, Georgia
• Atlantic Rally for Cruisers, a transatlantic sailing competition
• Australian Rally Championship
• Australian Rugby Championship (August–October 2007), rugby union
• IOC code for archery at the Summer Olympics

Other uses

• Academy of Richmond County, Augusta, Georgia, US
• Access to the Region's Core, cancelled commuter rail project, New York, US
• Activity relationship chart, of closeness between activities
• Advanced Recon Commandos (ARC troopers), a variant of clone trooper in the Star Wars franchise
• Alarm monitoring center, also known as alarm receiving center (ARC)
• American River College, Sacramento County, California, US
• Anaheim Rapid Connection, a proposed streetcar line
• Anti-reflective coating
• A US Navy hull classification symbol: Cable repair ship (ARC)
• ARC triangle, Affinity, Reality and Communication, in Scientology
• arc, the ISO 639-2 code for the Aramaic language
  • Aramaic Wikipedia, which uses "arc" as its url prefix
• ARC West Michigan, an independent digital subchannel of WWMT in Kalamazoo, Michigan
• Armada de la República de Colombia: the Colombian Navy, and the prefix "ARC" before the name of any of its ships
• Army Reconnaissance Course, US Army Armor School, Fort Knox, Kentucky

See also

• Alpha Rho Chi (αρχ), U.S. architect fraternity
• All pages with titles beginning with ARC
• All pages with titles beginning with Arc
• All pages with titles beginning with ArC
• All pages with titles beginning with ARc
• All pages with titles containing A.R.C.
• All pages with titles containing arc
• Arch (disambiguation)
• ARCS (disambiguation)
• Ark (disambiguation)
• ARQ (disambiguation)