ARC may refer to:

Business

Aircraft Radio Corporation Aircraft Radio Corporation (ARC) – not to be confused with Aeronautical Radio, Inc. (ARINC) – was a principal pioneer and major manufacturer of avionics for military and commercial aircraft, and later general aviation (light) aircraft, from t ...

, 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 The American Record Company was an American record label that was in business from 1904 to 1906. History The American Record Company (commonly abbreviated as "ARCo") was founded by Ellsworth A. Hawthorne and Horace Sheble, formerly designers of ...

(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 Earth, Wind & Fire (EW&F or EWF) is an American band whose music spans the genres of jazz, R&B, soul, funk, disco, pop, big band, Latin, and Afro pop. They are among the best-selling bands of all time, with sales of over 90 million reco ...

ARC Document Solutions ARC Document Solutions, Inc. (formerly American Reprographics Company) is a publicly traded company that provides specialized document solutions, with an emphasis on the non-residential segment of the architecture, engineering and construction ( ...

, a company based in California, formerly American Reprographics Company *

Amey Roadstone Construction Amey plc, previously known as Amey Ltd and Amey Roadstone Construction, is a United Kingdom-based infrastructure support service provider. Amey was founded by William Charles Amey in 1921. The firm grew rapidly during the Second World War via g ...

, 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 Synopsys is an American electronic design automation (EDA) company that focuses on silicon design and verification, silicon intellectual property and software security and quality. Products include tools for logic synthesis and physical de ...

ARC Resources ARC Resources Ltd. (ARC) is a Canadian energy company with operations focused in the Montney resource play in Alberta and northeast British Columbia. The company has been operating since 1996. ARC pays a quarterly dividend to shareholders and its co ...

, a Canadian oil and natural gas company *

Arena Racing Company Arena Racing Company, also called ARC Racing and Leisure Group is a UK private company, created in 2012 by the merger of Arena Leisure and Northern Racing. It owns and operates 16 racecourses in Great Britain, accounting for 39% of British rac ...

, a British racecourse owning group

Computing

* Adaptive replacement cache, a cache management algorithm *

Advanced Resource Connector Advanced Resource Connector (ARC) is a grid computing middleware introduced by NorduGrid. It provides a common interface for submission of computational tasks to different distributed computing systems and thus can enable grid infrastructures of ...

, middleware for computational grids *

Advanced RISC Computing Advanced RISC Computing (ARC) is a specification promulgated by a defunct consortium of computer manufacturers (the Advanced Computing Environment project), setting forth a standard MIPS RISC-based computer hardware and firmware environment. T ...

, a specification * Google App Runtime for Chrome, a compatibility layer and sandboxing technology to run Android applications on Chromebook computers *

ARC (file format) ARC is a lossless data compression and archival format by System Enhancement Associates (SEA). The file format and the program were both called ARC. The format is known as the subject of controversy in the 1980s, part of important debates over w ...

, a lossless data compression and archival file format * Automatic Relay Computer, an early electromechanical computer *

ARC (processor) ARC (Argonaut RISC Core) embedded system processors are a family of 32-bit and 64-bit reduced instruction set computer (RISC) central processing units (CPUs) originally designed by ARC International. ARC processors are configurable and extensi ...

, a family of embedded microprocessors *

ARC Macro Language The ARC Macro Language (AML) 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. AML's syn ...

, a high-level algorithmic language *

Audio Return Channel High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) is a proprietary audio/video interface for transmitting uncompressed video data and compressed or uncompressed digital audio data from an HDMI-compliant source device, such as a display controller ...

, a feature of HDMI 1.4 *

Authenticated Received Chain Authenticated Received Chain (ARC) is an email authentication system designed to allow an intermediate mail server like a mailing list or forwarding service to sign an email's original authentication results. This allows a receiving service to valid ...

, an email authentication system *

Automatic Reference Counting Automatic Reference Counting (ARC) is a memory management feature of the Clang compiler providing automatic reference counting for the Objective-C and Swift programming languages. At compile time, it inserts into the object code messages retain a ...

, an Objective-C and Swift memory management feature *

Intel Arc Intel Arc is a brand of graphics processing units designed by Intel. These are discrete GPUs mostly marketed for the high-margin PC gaming market. The brand also covers Intel's consumer graphics software and services. Intel Arc is competing wi ...

, a brand of graphics processing units designed by Intel

Culture

Advance reading copy An advance reading copy, advance review copy, advance reader's edition, advance copy, or a reader's edition (ARC or ARE) is a free copy of a new book given by a publisher to booksellers, librarians, journalists, celebrities, or others, or as a con ...

of a book, for reviewers, etc. *

ARC Europe {{refimprove, date=December 2010 ARC Europe Group is the association of major European motoring clubs, principally active in the area of roadside assistance. 8 shareholders leading their local market ARC Transistance - the initial name for ARC ...

, association of motoring clubs *

ARChive of Contemporary Music The ARChive of Contemporary Music (ARC) is a non-profit music library and archive based in New York City. It contains over five million items. People The ARC was founded in 1985 by current Director, B. George and David Wheeler (1957–1997) in ...

, a music repository in New York City, US * ''

ARC Magazine ''ARC Magazine'' is an art magazine covering contemporary Caribbean art and culture. It was founded in 2011 as a non-profit print and digital magazine publication with an active web following. ''ARC'' profiles established and emerging artists livi ...

'' (Art. Recognition. Culture.), Caribbean *

Art Renewal Center The Art Renewal Center (ARC) is a non-profit, educational organization, which hosts an online museum dedicated to realist art. The ARC was founded by New Jersey businessman, author, and art collector Fred Ross. Particular emphasis is given to ...

, online realist art museum *

Canadian artist-run centres Canadian artist-run centres (ARC or ARCs) are 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. Most centres follow the not ...

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 The Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) 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. Congress established A ...

, a United States federal-state partnership *

Atlanta Regional Commission The Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC) is the regional planning and intergovernmental coordination agency for the metro Atlanta, Georgia, USA region, defined as the 11-county area of Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, Douglas, Fayette, Forsyth, F ...

, 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 The Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF; french: Aviation royale canadienne, ARC) is the air and space force of Canada. Its role is to "provide the Canadian Forces with relevant, responsive and effective airpower". The RCAF is one of three environm ...

(French: ')

Humanitarian, activist and religious organizations

Abortion Rights Campaign The Abortion Rights Campaign (ARC) is an Irish abortion rights group. The group's goal is the introduction of free and legal abortion in Ireland and Northern Ireland. A significant aim prior to May 2018 was the repeal of the Eighth Amendment of ...

, Ireland *

African Rainforest Conservancy The African Rainforest Conservancy (ARC), 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 ...

* Alliance of Reformed Churches *

Alliance of Religions and Conservation The Alliance of Religions and Conservation (ARC) was a United Kingdom-based international organisation founded by Prince Philip, in 1995. ARC was a secular body whose aim was to assist the major religions of the world to develop environmental prog ...

, 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 The Arc of the United States is an organization serving people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The organization was founded in the 1950s by parents of people with developmental disabilities. Since then, the organization has estab ...

Arthritis Research Campaign Versus Arthritis is the UK's largest charity dedicated to supporting people with arthritis. It was launched in September 2018, following the legal merger of the two leading arthritis charities in the UK, Arthritis Research UK and Arthritis Care i ...

, UK *

Australian Red Cross The Australian Red Cross, formally the Australian Red Cross Society, is a humanitarian aid and community services charity in Australia. Tracing its history back to 1923 and being incorporated by royal charter in 1941, the Australian Red Cro ...

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 three people: Alfred Barr, the art critic and founder of the Museum of Modern Art, the theologian Paul Tillich, and Marvin Halverson, an American P ...

, US

Research and science

Agricultural Research Council The Agricultural and Food Research Council (AFRC) was a British Research Council responsible for funding and managing scientific and technological developments in farming and horticulture. History The AFRC was formed in 1983 from its predecessor ...

, a former British organisation that funded agricultural research *

Alberta Research Council Alberta Innovates (AI) is an Alberta government provincial corporation whose appointed Board of Directors is accountable to the Minister of Jobs, Economy and Innovation and is responsible for promoting innovation in the province. AI was created ...

, government funded applied R&D corporation *

ARC fusion reactor The ARC fusion reactor (affordable, robust, compact) is a design for a compact fusion reactor developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC). ARC aims to achieve an engineering breakeven of th ...

, Affordable, Robust Compact reactor, a reactor design from MIT *

Ames Research Center The Ames Research Center (ARC), also known as NASA Ames, is a major NASA research center at Moffett Federal Airfield in California's Silicon Valley. It was founded in 1939 as the second National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) labo ...

, a NASA facility located at Moffett Federal Airfield, California * Archival Research Catalog,

National Archives and Records Administration The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is an " independent federal agency of the United States government within the executive branch", charged with the preservation and documentation of government and historical records. It ...

catalog *

, a British medical research charity * Astrophysical Research Consortium, the organization that operates the

Apache Point Observatory The Apache Point Observatory (APO; obs. code: 705) is an astronomical observatory located in the Sacramento Mountains in Sunspot, New Mexico, United States, approximately south of Cloudcroft. The observatory is operated by New Mexico State Un ...

* 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