Business

• African Rainforest Conservancy
  African Rainforest Conservancy
  The African Rainforest Conservancy , works to conserve and restore African rainforests, particularly focusing on the Eastern Arc mountains of Tanzania located about southeast of Mount Kilimanjaro. These lush mountains are among the oldest and most biodiverse in the world. The forests themselves...
  
  , an environmental nonprofit
• Airport Regions Conference
  Airport Regions Conference
  Airport Regions Conference is an association of European cities and regions that host major international airports. It was founded in 1994.-Purpose and mission:...
  
  , a European organization of major airports
• Amalgamated Roadstone Corporation
  Amalgamated Roadstone Corporation
  Amalgamated Roadstone Corporation was a British stone quarrying company.- History :Amalgamated Roadstone Corporation Ltd. was formed on 23 April 1935 to acquire a number of quarries in Britain. In 1947 ARC acquired the majority of the shares of the British Quarrying Co Ltd and its associated...
  
  , a British stone quarrying company
• American Record Company
  American Record Company
  The American Record Company was a United States record label, in business from about 1904 to 1908. Then re-activated in 1979.The American Record Company was founded by Ellsworth A. Hawthorne and Horace Sheble and Frederick M. Prescott. It was based in Springfield, Massachusetts...
  
   (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
  American Reprographics Company
  American Reprographics Company is the largest reprographics company in the United States, providing business-to-business document management services to the architectural, engineering and construction industry. It also provides these services to companies in other industries that require...
  
  
• Aqaba Railway Corporation
  Aqaba Railway Corporation
  The Aqaba Railway Corporation is a railway operating in southern Jordan. The railway was formed in 1979 to transport phosphate to the port in Aqaba. It uses the tracks of the Hejaz Railway.-History:...
  
  , a freight railway in Jordan
• A&R Channel, American cable television video on demand network based in Los Angeles
• ARC/Architectural Resources Cambridge, Inc.
  ARC/Architectural Resources Cambridge, Inc.
  Founded in 1969, ARC/Architectural Resources Cambridge, Inc. is a national architectural design firm located in Cambridge, Massachusetts that specializes in Science/R&D, biotechnology, educational, athletic and corporate facilities...
  
  , Cambridge, Massachusetts
• ARC Diversified
  ARC Diversified
  ARC Diversified was a 501 non-profit corporation in Cookeville, Tennessee, mainly concerned with hiring and training the severely disabled in the manufacturing of food products. At one time, the company employed over 100 severely disabled people to manufacture and co-pack several private label...
  
  , a Cookeville, Tennessee non-profit that employs the severely disabled
• Archaeological Review from Cambridge
  Archaeological Review from Cambridge
  The Archaeological Review from Cambridge is a biannual academic journal of archaeology. It is run on a non-profit, voluntary basis by postgraduate research students at the University of Cambridge. Each issue addresses a particular subject of interest in archaeology...
  
  , UK journal

Computing and gaming

• Adaptive replacement cache
  Adaptive Replacement Cache
  Adaptive Replacement Cache is a page replacement algorithm withbetter performance than LRU developed at the IBM Almaden Research Center. This is accomplished by keeping track of both Frequently Used and Recently Used pages plus a recent eviction history for both...
  
  , a cache management algorithm
• Advanced Resource Connector
  Advanced Resource Connector
  Advanced Resource Connector is grid computing middleware introduced by NorduGrid. ARC is an open source software distributed under the Apache License.- History :...
  
  , middleware for computational grids
• Advanced RISC Computing
  Advanced RISC Computing
  Advanced RISC Computing is a specification promulgated by a defunct consortium of computer manufacturers , setting forth a standard MIPS RISC-based computer hardware and firmware environment....
  
  , a specification
• ARC (file format)
  ARC (file format)
  ARC is a lossless data compression and archival format by System Enhancement Associates . It was very popular during the early days of networked dial-up BBS. The file format and the program were both called ARC...
  
  , a file format
• ARC International
  ARC International
  ARC International plc was a developer of configurable microprocessor technology and is now owned by Synopsys. ARC developed synthesisable IP and licensed it to semiconductor companies....
  
  , a computer processor designer
• ARC Macro Language
  ARC Macro Language
  The ARC Macro Language is a proprietary high-level algorithmic language for generating applications in ArcInfo. It was designed by ESRI in 1986 specifically for their command line-driven ARC/INFO geographical information system...
  
  , a high-level algorithmic language
• Attack Retrieve Capture
  Attack Retrieve Capture
  Attack Retrieve Capture was a free multiplayer, 2D computer game created by John Vechey and Brian Fiete as a college project and later published by Hoopy Entertainment in 1995. The game was primarily capture the flag , but other game modes existed. In the 2-team CTF mode, each team tried to...
  
  , a free, multiplayer, 2D computer game
• Audio Return Channel, a feature of HDMI 1.4

Government and politics

• Administrative Reform Council, the military regime that governed Thailand following the 2006 coup d'état
• Administrative Reforms Commission
  Administrative Reforms Commission
  The Administrative Reforms Commission or ARC is the committee appointed by the Government of India for giving recommendations for reviewing the public administration system of India. The first ARC was established on 5 January 1966...
  
  , Indian Government commission
• Alien registration card (Japan), for foreign residents of Japan
• Alien Resident Certificate
  Alien Resident Certificate
  An Alien Resident Certificate , or ARC, is the identification card issued to foreign residents of the Republic of China .-Standard Alien Resident Certificate:...
  
  , for foreign residents of Taiwan
• Army Reconnaissance Course, United States Army Armor School, Fort Knox, Kentucky
• Appalachian Regional Commission
  Appalachian Regional Commission
  The Appalachian Regional Commission is a United States federal-state partnership that works with the people of Appalachia to create opportunities for self-sustaining economic development and improved quality of life...
  
  , United States federal-state partnership
• Atlanta Regional Commission
  Atlanta Regional Commission
  The Atlanta Regional Commission is the regional planning and intergovernmental coordination agency for the metro Atlanta, Georgia region, as defined as a 10-county area including Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, Douglas, Fayette, Fulton, Gwinnett, Henry and Rockdale counties, including the city of...
  
  , a regional planning and intergovernmental coordination agency
• Auckland Regional Council
  Auckland Regional Council
  The Auckland Regional Council was the regional council of the Auckland Region. Its predecessor the Auckland Regional Authority was formed in 1963 and became the ARC in 1989...
  
  , New Zealand local government entity
• Australian Research Council
  Australian Research Council
  The Australian Research Council is the Australian Government’s main agency for allocating research funding to academics and researchers in Australian universities. Its mission is to advance Australia’s capacity to undertake research that brings economic, social and cultural benefit to the...
  
  , government agency for allocating research funding
• Aviation Royale Canadienne, the Royal Canadian Air Force
  Royal Canadian Air Force
  The history of the Royal Canadian Air Force begins in 1920, when the air force was created as the Canadian Air Force . In 1924 the CAF was renamed the Royal Canadian Air Force and granted royal sanction by King George V. The RCAF existed as an independent service until 1968...
  
  .

Humanitarian and religious organizations

• ARC triangle, Affinity, Reality and Communication, the component parts of Understanding in Scientology
• Alliance of Religions and Conservation
  Alliance of Religions and Conservation
  The Alliance of Religions and Conservation is a United Kingdom-based international organisation founded by His Royal Highness, Prince Philip, in 1995....
  
  , UK
• American Red Cross
  American Red Cross
  The American Red Cross , also known as the American National Red Cross, is a volunteer-led, humanitarian organization that provides emergency assistance, disaster relief and education inside the United States. It is the designated U.S...
  
  
• ARC Association for Real Change
  ARC Association for Real Change
  ARC Association for Real Change is a UK membership organisation, which supports providers of services to people with a learning disability to promote real change.]-History:...
  
  , UK organisation supporting people with a learning disability
• Arthritis Research Campaign
  Arthritis Research Campaign
  The organisation formerly known as Arthritis Research Campaign is a British medical research charity dedicated to curing arthritis....
  
  , UK medical charity
• Society for the Arts, Religion and Contemporary Culture
  Society for the Arts, Religion and Contemporary Culture
  The Society for the Arts, Religion and Contemporary Culture, or ARC, was founded in October 1961 by Marvin Halverson , an American Protestant theologian sometime of the Chicago Theological Seminary and the author of a 1951 booklet, Great Religious Paintings. Its aims and program are based on the...
  
  , US

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)
  Circle (jazz band)
  Circle was an avant garde jazz ensemble active in 1970 and 1971. The group arose from pianist Chick Corea's early 1970s trio with Dave Holland on bass and Barry Altschul on drums and percussion with the addition of Anthony Braxton in a leading role on several reed instruments...
  
  
• ARC Europe
  ARC Europe
  ARC Europe is the association of major European motoring clubs, principally active in the area of roadside assistance.-Sub-Groups:ARC Transistance - the initial name for ARC Europe - was founded in 1991 by 8 major automobile clubs in 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
  ARChive of Contemporary Music
  The ARChive of Contemporary Music is a non-profit music library and archive based in New York City. It contains over 5 million items.-People:The ARC was founded in 1985 by current Director, B. George and David Wheeler in Lower Manhattan...
  
  , a music repository in New York City
• Art Renewal Center
  Art Renewal Center
  The Art Renewal Center is an organization led by New Jersey millionaire, businessman, and art collector Fred Ross dedicated to the promotion of what it terms classical realism in art, as opposed to the Modernist developments of the twentieth century...
  
  , an organization dedicated to classical realism in art
• Automation and Remote Control
  Automation and Remote Control
  Automation and Remote Control - a Russian periodical, publication of MAIK Nauka/Interperiodica Press distributed in English exclusively by Springer Science. ISSN 0005-1179 , ISSN 1608-3032 ....
  
  , a Russian periodical
• Canadian artist-run centres
  Canadian artist-run centres
  Canadian artist-run centres are a series of galleries and art spaces developed by artists in Canada since the 1960s. "Artist-run centre" is the common term of use for artist-initiated and managed organizations in Canada...
  
   (ARCs), a series of galleries by artists in Canada

Research organizations

• Alberta Research Council
  Alberta Research Council
  Alberta Research Council is an Alberta government funded applied research and development corporation. In January 2010, the name was changed to Alberta Innovates - Technology Futures -History:...
  
  , government funded applied R&D corporation
• Ames Research Center, a NASA facility located at Moffett Federal Airfield, California
• ARC in Karolinska Institutet
  ARC in Karolinska Institutet
  The Aging Research Centre in Karolinska Institutet was established in the year 2000, is a multidisciplinary center in which both the medical university Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm University are collaborating...
  
  , aging research center in Sweden
• Archival Research Catalog, National Archives and Records Administration
  National Archives and Records Administration
  The National Archives and Records Administration is an independent agency of the United States government charged with preserving and documenting government and historical records and with increasing public access to those documents, which comprise the National Archives...
  
   catalog
• Arthritis Research Campaign
  Arthritis Research Campaign
  The organisation formerly known as Arthritis Research Campaign is a British medical research charity dedicated to curing arthritis....
  
  , a British medical research charity
• Astrophysical Research Consortium, the organization that operates the Apache Point Observatory
  Apache Point Observatory
  The Apache Point Observatory is located in the Sacramento Mountains in Sunspot, New Mexico 18 miles south of Cloudcroft. The observatory consists of the Astrophysical Research Consortium's 3.5-meter telescope, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey 2.5-m telescope with a 20" photometric telescope,...
  
  
• Augmentation Research Center
  Augmentation Research Center
  Stanford Research Institute's Augmentation Research Center was founded in the 1960s by electrical engineer Douglas Engelbart to develop and experiment with new tools and techniques for collaboration and information processing. The main product to come out of ARC was the revolutionary oN-Line...
  
  , a center founded by electrical engineer Douglas Engelbart
• Australian Research Council
  Australian Research Council
  The Australian Research Council is the Australian Government’s main agency for allocating research funding to academics and researchers in Australian universities. Its mission is to advance Australia’s capacity to undertake research that brings economic, social and cultural benefit to the...
  
  , the Australian Government's main research funding body for tertiary institutions
• Aviation Research Centre
  Aviation Research Centre
  The Aviation Research Centre is a part of the Research and Analysis Wing of the Cabinet Secretariat, India. The first head of the ARC was R. N. Kao, the legendary founding chief of R&AW...
  
  , a part of the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) of the Cabinet Secretariat, India

Sport

• Adelaide Rowing Club
  Adelaide Rowing Club
  The Adelaide Rowing Club is a rowing club located in Adelaide, South Australia. The Patron of the ARC is the Right Honourable Lord Mayor of Adelaide, Mr Michael Harbison....
  
  , in Adelaide, South Australia
• African Rally Championship
  African Rally Championship
  The African Rally Championship is an international automobile rally championship organized by the FIA. The championship was first held in 1981 and won by Shekhar Mehta...
  
  , 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
  Atlanta Rowing Club
  Atlanta Rowing Club is a non-profit 501 masters rowing club located in Roswell, Georgia. ARC's colors are red and white. As a masters organization, it is the only club in the Atlanta area for rowers who are beyond high school or college age, although there are several members who are in college...
  
  , Roswell, Georgia
• Atlantic Rally for Cruisers
  Atlantic Rally for Cruisers
  The Atlantic Rally for Cruisers is an annual transatlantic sailing event for cruiser yachts held since 1986. It also includes a sailing competition for racers under the auspices of the Royal Ocean Racing Club...
  
  , transatlantic sailing competition
• Australian Rally Championship
  Australian Rally Championship
  The Australian Rally Championship is a 6 Round National motorsport Championship run in forested countryside throughout Australia.-Current Competition:...
  
  
• Australian Rugby Championship
  Australian Rugby Championship
  The Australian Rugby Championship, often abbreviated to the ARC , was a domestic Rugby union football club competition in Australia which ran for only one season in August–October 2007...
  
   (August–October 2007), rugby union

Other

• Academy of Richmond County
  Academy of Richmond County
  The Academy of Richmond County is a public high school listed on the National Register of Historic Places located in Augusta, Georgia, USA. Originally known as Richmond County Military Academy, and commonly known as Richmond Academy, it was chartered in 1783...
  
  , 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
  AIDS-related complex
  AIDS-related complex, or ARC, was introduced after discovery of the HIV when the medical community became aware of the inherent difficulties associated with treating patients suffering from an advanced case of HIV which gave rise to the term Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome...
  
  , a condition in which antibody tests are positive for HIV
• American River College
  American River College
  American River College is a California community college located in the southern edge of unincorporated Foothill Farms in Sacramento County, California....
  
  , 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
  Official Aramaic language
  Official Aramaic is an ancient Afro-Asiatic language spoken in the Near East between about 700 BCE and 300 BCE. It received its name from the fact that it was adopted as the administrative language of the Achaemenid Persian empire beginning about 500 BCE. It succeeded Old Aramaic.- References :*...
  
   (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
  Arctic Village Airport
  Arctic Village Airport is a public use airport located one nautical mile southwest of the central business district of Arctic Village, a Native American village in the Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska...
  
  , Alaska
• Activity relationship chart
  Activity relationship chart
  The activity relationship chart is a tabular means of displaying the closeness rating among all pairs of activities or departments.. In an ARC, there are six closeness ratings that can be assigned to each pair of departments, as well as nine reasons for those ratings .- Rating symbols :*A:...
  
  , a tabular means of displaying closeness ratings between activities
• Anteater Recreation Center, an indoor gym at the University of California, Irvine

See also

• Arch (disambiguation)
  Arch (disambiguation)
  An arch is a curved structure capable of spanning a space while supporting significant weight. It may also refer to the act of arching, or curving, an object such as the human back.Arch may also refer to:*Gateway Arch, an iconic monument in St...
  
  
• ARCS (disambiguation)
• Ark (disambiguation)