ACT
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- Australian Capital TerritoryAustralian Capital TerritoryThe Australian Capital Territory, often abbreviated ACT, is the capital territory of the Commonwealth of Australia and is the smallest self-governing internal territory...
, the capital territory of the Commonwealth of Australia - ACT (test), a college placement exam in the United States
In aviation:
- Additional Centre Tank, one or more auxiliary fuel tank(s) installed in an aircraft lower cargo compartment to increase an aircraft fuel capacity and therefore range.
In business:
- ACT mouthwash from ChattemChattemChattem is a Chattanooga, Tennessee, producer and marketer of over-the-counter healthcare products, toiletries, dietary supplements, topical analgesics, and medicated skin care products...
- Advanced Cell TechnologyAdvanced Cell TechnologyAdvanced Cell Technology, Incorporated , is a biotechnology company located in Marlborough, Massachusetts, USA. The company specializes in the development and commercialization of cell therapies for the treatment of a variety of diseases...
, a biotech corporation involved in researching and developing cloning and stem cell technologies - Ada Core Technologies, now AdaCoreAdaCoreAdaCore is a computer software company that provides open source software tools and expertise for the development of mission-critical, safety-critical, and security-critical software...
, a software company that develops an Ada compiler, tools and libraries - Applied Computer Techniques, renamed Apricot ComputersApricot ComputersApricot Computers is a British manufacturer of business personal computers, originally founded in 1965 as "Applied Computer Techniques" , changing its name to Apricot Computers, Ltd. in the 1980s...
in 1985, a computer services company - Aviation Composite TechnologyAviation Composite TechnologyAviation Composite Technology is an aircraft manufacturer formed in the Philippines in 1990. It was established to produce the Apache 1 for the Philippines military and police service....
, an aircraft manufacturer in the Philippines - ACT (NASDAQ)ACT (NASDAQ)ACT, or Automated Confirmation of Transactions, is system for reporting and clearing trades in the over-the-counter and NASDAQ securities markets...
, Automated Confirmation of Transactions, a trade reporting and clearing system - Advance corporation taxAdvance corporation taxIn the United Kingdom, the Advance corporation tax was the scheme under which companies made an advance payment of tax when they distributed dividend payments to shareholders...
, a tax collected in the United Kingdom until 1999 - ACT!ACT!Sage ACT! is a customer relationship management software application which is used to keep track of client and prospect details in a single database that can be shared by multiple users...
, contact management software
Organizations:
- ACT Alliance, an alliance of churches for coordinating humanitarian assistance and development work.
- ACT New Zealand, a political party in New Zealand
- Academy of Clinical ThyroidologistsAcademy of Clinical ThyroidologistsThe Academy of Clinical Thyroidologists was founded in May 2005 at the annual meeting of the Association of Clinical Endocrinologists in Washington DC. The Academy is a professional society consisting of 32 members from the U.S. and Italy who specialize in clinical thyroidology...
- Addenbrooke's Charitable Trust
- Association for Competitive TechnologyAssociation for Competitive TechnologyThe Association for Competitive Technology is a trade association representing over 3,000 application software developers and small and mid-sized technology companies in the United States and in Europe...
, a technology lobby group - The Association of Commercial Television in Europe, a group which represents the business interests of the commercial television sector at the EU institutions
- Association of Cinematograph Technicians, now the Association of Cinematograph Television and Allied TechniciansAssociation of Cinematograph Television and Allied TechniciansThe Association of Cinematograph Television and Allied Technicians was a trade union in the United Kingdom.The union was founded by technicians at the Gaumont British Studios in 1933 as the Association of Cinematograph Technicians...
- Association of Corporate TreasurersAssociation of Corporate TreasurersThe Association of Corporate Treasurers is the only British professional body specialising in the profession of corporate treasury. Founded in 1979, it is both an examining body, providing a wide range of qualifications for those working in treasury, risk and corporate finance, and a membership...
- Action for Children's TelevisionAction for Children's TelevisionAction for Children's Television was founded by Peggy Charren and Judy Chalfen in Newton, Massachusetts in 1968 as a grassroots organization dedicated to improving the quality of television programming offered to children...
, an organization dedicated to improvements in children's television - Advanced Concepts TeamAdvanced Concepts TeamThe Advanced Concepts Team is a group of scientists, researchers and young graduates that operate within the European Space Agency. Located at the European Space Research and Technology Centre, in the Netherlands, the team was instituted in 2003 with the objective of fostering advanced research on...
, A research team of the European Space Agency - Alliance of Concerned TeachersAlliance of Concerned TeachersThe Alliance of Concerned Teachers is a progressive, militant and nationalist organization of teachers, academic non-teaching personnel and non-academic non-teaching personnel established on June 26, 1982 in the Philippines...
, an alliance of teachers, educators and teacher organizations in the Philippines - America Coming TogetherAmerica Coming TogetherAmerica Coming Together was a liberal, political action, 527 group dedicated to get-out-the-vote activities. ACT did not specifically endorse any political party, but mostly worked on behalf of Democratic candidates. It was the largest 527 group in 2004 and was planning to be involved in future...
, a United States political group - AIDS Committee of Toronto
- Asian College of TechnologyAsian College of TechnologyThe Asian College of Technology is a private college in the Philippines, located in Cebu City and Talisay City, in the Cebu Province.It consists of two campuses located in different areas of Metro Cebu – the ACT-Cebu City CyberTower Campus, the main campus at the corner of Leon Kilat, P...
, a private university in the Philippines - Association for Citizenship Teaching, a professional subject association for teachers of citizenship
- Advanced Career Training, a private post-secondary educational facility with locations in Georgia and Florida
- Australian College of TheologyAustralian College of TheologyThe Australian College of Theology is an Australian theological education provider. The college was one of the first Australian non-university providers to offer an accredited bachelor's degree and a research doctorate. Over 15,000 people have graduated since the foundation of the college,...
- Amazon Conservation TeamAmazon Conservation TeamThe Amazon Conservation Team is a non-profit organization that works in partnership with indigenous people of tropical America in conserving the biodiversity of the Amazon Rainforest as well as the culture and land of its indigenous people....
, a non-profit organization that works in partnership with indigenous people to protect the Amazon rainforest
In government:
- Allied Command TransformationAllied Command TransformationAllied Command Transformation is a NATO military command, which was formed in 2003 after North Atlantic Treaty Organisation restructuring....
, a NATO strategic command - Advanced Concepts TeamAdvanced Concepts TeamThe Advanced Concepts Team is a group of scientists, researchers and young graduates that operate within the European Space Agency. Located at the European Space Research and Technology Centre, in the Netherlands, the team was instituted in 2003 with the objective of fostering advanced research on...
, a research team of the European Space Agency
In science and technology:
- ACT-RACT-RACT-R is a cognitive architecture mainly developed by John Robert Anderson at Carnegie Mellon University. Like any cognitive architecture, ACT-R aims to define the basic and irreducible cognitive and perceptual operations that enable the human mind....
, a symbolic cognitive architecture - ACT (audio format)ACT (audio format)ACT is a lossy ADPCM 8 kbit/s compressed audio format recorded by most Chinese MP3 and MP4 players with a recording function, and voice recorders....
, file format - Active voiceVoice (grammar)In grammar, the voice of a verb describes the relationship between the action that the verb expresses and the participants identified by its arguments . When the subject is the agent or doer of the action, the verb is in the active voice...
or actor role in interlinear glossing - Apple Certified Trainer
- Astrographic Catalog/Tycho, a star catalogue. See Hipparcos Catalogue
- Atacama Cosmology TelescopeAtacama Cosmology TelescopeThe Atacama Cosmology Telescope is a six-metre telescope on Cerro Toco in the Atacama Desert in the north of Chile, near the Llano de Chajnantor Observatory. It is designed to make high-resolution, microwave-wavelength surveys of the sky in order to study the cosmic microwave background radiation...
, a telescope in Chile
In medicine:
- Artemisinin-based combination therapyArtemisininArtemisinin , also known as Qinghaosu , and its derivatives are a group of drugs that possess the most rapid action of all current drugs against falciparum malaria. Treatments containing an artemisinin derivative are now standard treatment worldwide for falciparum malaria...
, a treatment for malaria - Assertive community treatmentAssertive Community TreatmentAssertive community treatment, or ACT, is an intensive and highly integrated approach for community mental health service delivery. ACT programs serve people whose symptoms of mental illness result in severe functional difficulties that interfere with their ability to achieve personally meaningful...
, a system for treating mental illness - Acceptance and commitment therapyAcceptance and Commitment TherapyAcceptance and commitment therapy or ACT is a cognitive–behavioral model of psychotherapy. It is an empirically-based psychological intervention that uses acceptance and mindfulness strategies mixed in different ways with commitment and behavior-change strategies, to increase psychological...
, a type of cognitive-behavioral therapy - Activated clotting timeActivated clotting timeActivated clotting time , also known as activated coagulation time is a test of coagulation.The ACT test is used to monitor the effect of high-dose heparin before, during, and shortly after surgeries that require intense anticoagulant administration, such as cardiac bypass surgery, cardiac...
In entertainment:
- A.C.TA.C.TA.C.T is a Swedish progressive rock band formed in 1995 under the name ‘Fairyland’, in Malmö. The band has been through several personnel changes; with the current line-up featuring Herman Saming , Ola Andersson , Peter Asp , Jerry Sahlin and Thomas Lejon .- History :Initially under Ola Andersson...
, a progressive rock band from Sweden - ACT TheatreACT TheatreACT Theatre is a regional, non-profit theatre organization in Seattle, Washington, USA. Gregory A. Falls founded ACT in 1965 and served as its first Artistic director; at the time ACT was founded he was also head of the Drama Department at the University of Washington...
, in Seattle, Washington - American Conservatory TheaterAmerican Conservatory TheaterAmerican Conservatory Theater is a large non-profit theater company in San Francisco, California, that offers both classical and contemporary theater productions. A.C.T. was founded in 1965 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in conjunction with the Pittsburgh Playhouse and Carnegie Tech by theatre and...
, in San Francisco, California
In sport:
- Australian Cricket Team
- American Canadian TourAmerican Canadian TourThe American Canadian Tour is a late model racing series based in the Northeast United States, Southern Ontario and Quebec, Canada. The American Canada Tour has two different late model divisions: the ACT Tour, formerly known as the "ACT Coors Tour", founded in 1986 and the ACT Castrol Series,...
, a race organisation.
In transport:
- Ford ACTFord ACTFord's ACT, short for Automatically Controlled Transportation or Activity Center Transit, was a people mover system developed during the 1970s. One interesting feature of the ACT is that it allowed bi-directional travel on a single rail—cars passed each other by switching onto short bypass lanes on...
, a people mover, short for Automatically Controlled Transportation or Activity Center Transit - Ascot railway stationAscot railway stationAscot railway station is a railway station in the town of Ascot in Berkshire, England. The station, and all trains serving it, are operated by South West Trains. It is at the junction of the Waterloo to Reading line with the Ascot to Guildford line....
, a railway station in the United Kingdom with the National Rail code "ACT" - Waco Regional AirportWaco Regional Airport-History:The airport was built by the United States Army Air Force as a pilot training airfield, and was activated on 2 July 1942. It was initially named China Springs Army Air Field and was also known as Waco Army Air Field No...
, an airport in Waco, Texas, United States, with the IATA airport code "ACT" - Agency for Community Transit, Madison County TransitMadison County TransitMadison County Transit, or MCT for short, is a bus and bike trail transportation system that serves the citizens of Madison County, which is located in Illinois approximately northeast of St. Louis. It was created in 1980 by the Madison County Board to improve transportation in Madison County, and...
's paratransit system