Acme is Ancient Greek (ακμή; English transliteration: ''akmē'') for "the peak", "zenith" or "prime". It may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

* ''Acme'' (album), an album by the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion * Acme and Septimius, a fictional couple in

Catullus 45 Catullus 45 is a poem by the Roman poet Catullus, describing the love between a fictional couple called Acme and Septimius. It is an over-the-top love poem that is ever so slightly tongue-in-cheek. The meter The metre (British spelling) or ...

, a poem by Roman poet Catullus * Acme Corporation, a fictional company originating in ''Looney Tunes'' cartoons, later a generic fictional company name * ACME Detective Agency, a fictional detective agency in the ''Carmen Sandiego'' computer games and television shows *

Acme Studios Acme, also styled ACME, is a charity based in London, England which provides affordable studio and living space, residencies and awards for visual artists. Its studios are known as Acme Studios. It formerly provided two gallery spaces, first the ...

, a London charity that provides studio and living space for visual artists

Businesses

Bangladesh

* The ACME Laboratories Ltd, a pharmaceutical company

United Kingdom

Acme Motor Co The Acme Motor Co is a defunct manufacturer of motorcycles that operated from premises in Earlsdon, Coventry. The company started manufacturing in 1902. It was taken over by Rex motorcycles sometime before 1920. In 1922 the name of the company ...

, a defunct motorcycle manufacturer based in Coventry *

Acme Press Acme Press Ltd. (styled as ACME Press), later known as Acme Comics, was a British comic book publisher active from 1986 to 1995. The company's initial publication was ''Speakeasy'', a monthly fanzine of comics news and criticism. Acme published ...

Ltd., a defunct comics publisher (and retailer) in England * Acme Space, an architecture firm based in London *

Acme Whistles J Hudson & Co was founded in the 1870s in Birmingham by Joseph Hudson (1848–1930) and his brother James Hudson (1850–1889). The company became a manufacturer of whistles and continues as Acme Whistles. Acme is the world's largest and most ...

, a major producer of whistles * Acme Software, a former name of Rockstar North, a video game development company

United States

Acme Aircraft Co Acme Aircraft Co was an aircraft manufacturer founded by Hugh Crawford and Roger Keeney Roger is a given name, usually masculine, and a surname. The given name is derived from the Old French personal names ' and '. These names are of Ge ...

, later known as Sierradyne, an aircraft manufacturer based in Torrance, California *

Acme Aircraft Corporation The Acme Aircraft Corporation was an American aircraft manufacturer based in Rockford, Illinois, founded in 1928.Gunston 2005, p. 6.Grey, C.G. (ed): ''Jane's All The World's Aircraft 1929'', page 235c. Sampson, Low, Manton and Company, Limite ...

, an aircraft manufacturer based in Rockford, Illinois, during the 1920s *

Acme Boots Acme Boots was the name of a company that produced boots. It eventually just became a brand name, and was last owned by H.H. Brown, until it was placed under their Double-H Boots brand label. Etymology Acme (ακμή; English transliteration: ...

, a manufacturer of western footwear owned by Berkshire Hathaway *

Acme Bread Company The Acme Bread Company (also known as Acme Bread) is a Berkeley, California-based bakery that is one of the pioneers of the San Francisco Bay Area's " Bread Revolution," which in turn created the modern "artisan bread" movement in America, and rem ...

, a bakery in Berkeley, California *

Acme Brick Acme Brick Company is an American manufacturer and distributor of brick and masonry-related construction products and materials. Founder George E. Bennett (October 6, 1852 – July 3, 1907), chartered the company as the Acme Pressed Brick Compan ...

, a brick manufacturer that is a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway * ACME Comics & Collectibles, a comics and collectibles store in Sioux City, Iowa * ACME Communications, a television broadcasting company, based in Santa Ana, California * Acme Fresh Market, a chain of grocery stores in northeast Ohio * Acme Markets, a chain of grocery stores in the northeast * Acme (automobile) (Acme Motor Car Company), an early motor car manufacturer * ACME Newspictures * Acme Packet, a VoIP Session Border Controller manufacturer * Acme Tackle Company, a producer of fishing tackle in Providence, Rhode Island * Acme Truck Line, a national transportation service based in Gretna, Louisiana * Acme United Corporation, a scissors manufacturer founded in 1867 in Naugatuck, Connecticut * Air Craft Marine Engineering, a short-lived aircraft manufacturer established in 1954

Places

Canada

* Acme, Alberta, a village

United States

* Acme, Indiana, an unincorporated town * Acme, Kansas, an unincorporated community *

Acme, Louisiana Acme is an unincorporated community in Concordia Parish, Louisiana Louisiana , group=pronunciation (French: ''La Louisiane'') is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the United States. It is the 20th-smallest by area an ...

, an unincorporated community *

Acme, Michigan Acme ( ) is an unincorporated community in Michigan. On the shores of the East Arm of Grand Traverse Bay, Acme is located in Acme Township, a part of Grand Traverse County. It is part of the urban area of Traverse City. Acme is home to the Grand ...

, an unincorporated community *

Acme Township, Michigan Acme Township ( ) is a civil township of Grand Traverse County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 census, the township population was 4,456, slightly up from 4,375 at the 2010 census. The southwestern portion of the township is large ...

Acme, North Carolina Acme is an unincorporated community in Columbus County, in the U.S. state of North Carolina North Carolina () is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States. The state is the 28th largest and 9th-most populous of the United ...

, an unincorporated community * Acme Township, Hettinger County, North Dakota *

Acme, Oklahoma Acme is a ghost town in Grady County, Oklahoma, United States. It had a post office from April 8, 1913, to May 29, 1931. The former community was west of the present community of Rush Springs.

, a ghost town *

Acme, Pennsylvania Acme is an unincorporated community in Donegal Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Mount Pleasant Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and Bullskin Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania in the United States. The Acme ZIP code ...

, an unincorporated community *

Acme, Texas Acme is a ghost town in Hardeman County, Texas, United States. It is located 5 miles west of the county seat, Quanah. History A large deposit of gypsum was discovered by businessman James Sickler in 1890, who moved his Kansas operation to the area ...

, a ghost town *

Acme, Washington Acme is a rural village in Whatcom County, Washington, United States. There is a general store, post office, gas station, diner, elementary school and two churches located there. Acme is also included in, and the source-name for, a larger census-d ...

, a census-designated place *

Acme, West Virginia Acme is an unincorporated community in Kanawha County, West Virginia West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian, Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States.The Census Bureau and the Association of American Geographers cl ...

, an unincorporated community

Buildings

* Acme Farm Supply Building, a listed building in Nashville, Tennessee * ACME Comedy Theatre, a sketch comedy and improvisational theater located near Hollywood

Science, technology and mathematics

Acme (computer virus) Acme is a computer virus which infects MS-DOS EXE files. Each time an infected file is executed, Acme may infect an EXE in the current directory by creating a hidden 247 byte long read-only COM file with the same base name. (In MS-DOS, if the f ...

, a computer virus which infects DOS .EXE executable files *

ACME (health software) The Mortality Medical Data System (MMDS) is used to automate the entry, classification, and retrieval of cause-of-death information reported on death certificates throughout the United States and in many other countries. The National Center for He ...

automated determination of cause of death, used by several governments for the generation of national mortality statistics * Acme (text editor), a text editor and development environment originally for the Plan 9 from Bell Labs operating system *

Acme thread form Trapezoidal thread forms are screw thread profiles with trapezoidal outlines. They are the most common forms used for leadscrews (power screws). They offer high strength and ease of manufacture. They are typically found where large loads are r ...

, a screw thread used in specialized applications such as vises and leadscrews *

Acme zone In biostratigraphy, an acme zone, abundance zone, or peak zone is the area of a teilzone where a particular fossil taxon reaches a higher level of abundance. See also *Biozone In biostratigraphy, biostratigraphic units or biozones are intervals of ...

, a biostratigraphic zone where a fossil reaches its peak abundance *

Arginine catabolic mobile element The arginine catabolic mobile element (ACME) is a mobile genetic element of ''Staphylococcus'' bacterial species. This genetic element provides for several immune modulating functions, including resistance to polyamines which serve as a non-specifi ...

, a genetic system used by bacteria to tolerate skin polyamine defense compounds *

Automatic Certificate Management Environment The Automatic Certificate Management Environment (ACME) protocol is a communications protocol for automating interactions between certificate authority, certificate authorities and their users' servers, allowing the automated deployment of public ...

, a protocol for communications between a certificate authority and its users' web servers *

Summit A summit is a point on a surface that is higher in elevation than all points immediately adjacent to it. The topography, topographic terms acme, apex, peak (mountain peak), and zenith are synonymous. The term (mountain top) is generally used ...

or acme, a topographic term * Advisory Committee on Mathematics Education, a British organisation established in 2002 by the Royal Society and the Joint Mathematical Council * ACME Laboratories, an open source software host of Jef Poskanzer

Ships

* ''Accentor''-class minesweeper, a US Navy class sometimes called the ''Accentor''/''Acme'' class ** USS ''Acme'' (AMc-61), a coastal minesweeper launched in 1941 ** USS ''Acme'' (MSO-508), a minesweeper launched in 1955 * USS ''Abarenda'' (IX-131) SS ''Acme'', original name of the, a storage tanker * ''Acme'' (1876), a schooner built in Sydney, Australia *

Acme (steamboat) The steamboat ''Acme'' operated on Lake Washington and also on the Sammamish Slough to Bothell, Washington from 1899 to 1910, when it was destroyed by fire. Construction and design ''Acme'' was built in Seattle in 1899 on the Lake Washington shor ...

, operated in the state of Washington from 1899 to 1910

Vehicles

Acme motorcycle (1911–1913) Between 1911 and 1913, the Acme Motor & Engineering Company of Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, Victoria, built motorcycles under the "Acme" brand name, using Fafnir and Moser engines in Chater-Lea Chater-Lea was a British bicycle, car and motorcyc ...

, an Australian motorcycle * Acme motorcycle (1915–1917), a motorcycle assembled in Burnie, Tasmania * Acme motorcycle (1939–1949), an Australian motorcycle

Other uses

* Acme (enslaved woman) (died 5 BC), Jewish slave and personal maid to Empress Livia Drusilla *

Acme (solitaire) Acme is a patience or card solitaire of the reserved packer type using a single deck of playing cards. History Acme is an old patience whose rules are first recorded by "Tarbart" in 1905."Tarbart" (1905), pp. 46–47. Rules Acme has four ...

, a card game {{Disambiguation, geo