ARC may refer to:

Business

* Aircraft Radio Corporation, a major avionics manufacturer from the 1920s to the '50s *

Airlines Reporting Corporation The Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC) is a company that provides ticket transaction settlement services between airlines and travel agencies (both traditional and online) and the travel management companies that sell their products in the United ...

, an airline-owned company that provides ticket distribution, reporting, and settlement services *

Airport Regions Conference Airport Regions Council (ARC) - formerly known as Airport Regions Conference, is an association of regional and local authorities with an international airport within or near their territories, founded in 1994. Currently, the ARC has more than ...

, a European organization of major airports *

Amalgamated Roadstone Corporation Amalgamated Roadstone Corporation (ARC) was a British stone quarrying company. History Amalgamated Roadstone Corporation Ltd. was formed on 23 April 1935 to acquire six quarry companies in Britain. These were Betty and Tom Ltd, Carreg-y-Liam Qu ...

, 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 American Record Corporation (ARC), also referred to as American Record Company, American Recording Corporation, or ARC Records, was an American record company. Overview ARC was created in January 1929 by Louis G. Sylvester, president of Scran ...

(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 The Aqaba Railway Corporation (ARC) was 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 partly. History In 1908 the Ottoman Empire bui ...

, a freight railway in Jordan * ARC/Architectural Resources Cambridge, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts *

ARC Diversified American Manufacturing & Packaging (AMP), previously ARC Diversified, was a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation located in Cookeville, Tennessee, mainly concerned with hiring and training the severely disabled in the manufacturing of food products. T ...

, a Cookeville, Tennessee non-profit that employs the severely disabled * ARC International, a computer processor designer, and a subsidiary of Synopsys#ARC International, 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 * APEXC#ARC_and_SEC, Automatic Relay Computer, an early electromechanical computer * 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

Culture

* Advance reading copy of a book, for reviewers, etc. * 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, online realist art museum * Canadian artist-run centres

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 * 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 * Royal Canadian Air Force (French: ')

Humanitarian, activist and religious organizations

* Abortion Rights Campaign, Ireland * African Rainforest Conservancy * 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 * Society for the Arts, Religion and Contemporary Culture, US

Research and science

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

Sports

* Adelaide Rowing Club, in Adelaide, South Australia * African Rally Championship, international automobile rally * Anteater Recreation Center, an indoor gym at the University of California, Irvine * American Rivers Conference, an NCAA Division III athletic conference operating mainly in Iowa with one member in Nebraska * Americas Rugby Championship * SV ARC (Alphense Racing Club), Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands, a Dutch football club * 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

Other uses

* Anti-reflective coating * American River College, Sacramento County, California, US * Academy of Richmond County, Augusta, Georgia, US * Access to the Region's Core, cancelled commuter rail project, New York, US * Anaheim Rapid Connection, a proposed streetcar line * Activity relationship chart, of closeness between activities * ARC, US Navy hull classification symbol for cable repair ship * Army Reconnaissance Course, US Army Armor School, Fort Knox, Kentucky * ARC (Callsign), Colombian Navy abbreviation and ship prefix * ARC triangle, Affinity, Reality and Communication, in Scientology * ''Attack Retrieve Capture'', a computer game * arc, the ISO 639-2 code for the Aramaic language