ARC may refer to:

Business

* Aircraft Radio Corporation, a major avionics manufacturer from the 1920s to the '50s * Airlines Reporting Corporation, 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, 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 (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 r ...

* 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, 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 desig ...

* 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 *

Automatic Relay Computer Automatic may refer to: Music Bands * Automatic (band), Australian rock band * Automatic (American band), American rock band * The Automatic, a Welsh alternative rock band Albums * ''Automatic'' (Jack Bruce album), a 1983 electronic rock ...

, 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 The Administrative Reforms Commission (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.Administrative Reform Council The Council for National Security ( th, คณะมนตรีความมั่นคงแห่งชาติ; ) or CNS ( th, คมช.), formerly known as the Council for Democratic Reform ( th, คณะปฏิรูปการป ...

, the military regime that governed Thailand following the 2006 coup d'état *

Alien registration card (Japan) was a system used to record information regarding Alien (law), aliens resident in Japan. It was handled at the municipalities of Japan, municipal level, parallel to (but separately from) the koseki (family register) and juminhyo (resident register) ...

, 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 The Australian Research Council (ARC) is the primary non-medical research funding agency of the Australian Government, distributing more than in grants each year. The Council was established by the ''Australian Research Council Act 2001'', ...

, a government agency for allocating research funding *

Autonomous Republic of Crimea The Autonomous Republic of Crimea, commonly known as Crimea, is a de jure autonomous republic of Ukraine encompassing most of Crimea that was annexed by Russia in 2014. The Autonomous Republic of Crimea occupies most of the peninsula,

, 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 environ ...

(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 The American Red Cross (ARC), also known as the American National Red Cross, is a non-profit humanitarian organization that provides emergency assistance, disaster relief, and disaster preparedness education in the United States. It is the desig ...

* American Refugee Committee *

Anti-Recidivism Coalition The Anti-Recidivism Coalition (ARC) is a Los Angeles–based nonprofit organization founded by Scott Budnick. ARC is a support network for formerly incarcerated individuals and advocates for criminal justice reform. ARC's mission is to reduce i ...

, 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 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) labora ...

, 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 i ...

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 *

, 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 The arcuate nucleus of the hypothalamus (also known as ARH, ARC, or infundibular nucleus) is an aggregation of neurons in the mediobasal hypothalamus, adjacent to the third ventricle and the median eminence. The arcuate nucleus includes severa ...

, an aggregation of neurons in the mediobasal hypothalamus *

Allergic rhinoconjunctivitis Allergic conjunctivitis (AC) is inflammation of the conjunctiva (the membrane covering the white part of the eye) due to allergy. Although allergens differ among patients, the most common cause is hay fever. Symptoms consist of redness (mainly due ...

, 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 The African Rally Championship (ARC) is an international automobile rally championship run under the auspicies of the FIA. The championship was first held in 1981 and won by Shekhar Mehta. The most successful driver in the championship's histor ...

, 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 ARC (Alphense Racing Club) is a Dutch association football club from Alphen aan den Rijn. In the 2017–18 season it competes in the Eerste Klasse. ARC played several times in the national KNVB Cup. History ARC was established on 22 February 1 ...

(Alphense Racing Club), Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands, a Dutch football club *

Athletics–Recreation Center The Athletics–Recreation Center, also known as the ARC, is a 5,000-seat multi-purpose arena on the campus of Valparaiso University in Valparaiso, Indiana, United States. It serves as the home court for Valparaiso Beacons men's and women's bas ...

, 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 Access to the Region's Core (ARC) was a proposed commuter-rail project to increase passenger service capacity on New Jersey Transit (NJT) between Secaucus Junction in New Jersey and Manhattan in New York City. New infrastructure would ha ...

, 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 The United States Navy, United States Coast Guard, and United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) use a hull classification symbol (sometimes called hull code or hull number) to identify their ships by type and by ...

for cable repair ship * Army Reconnaissance Course, US Army Armor School, Fort Knox, Kentucky *

ARC (Callsign) ) , colors= , march= ''"Viva Colombia, soy marinero"'' , mascot= , battles= Battle of Lake MaracaiboThousand Days War (Civil war) Colombia-Peru War World War II Korean War Colombian Armed Conflict Operation Atalanta , notable_commanders=José Prud ...

, 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 The Aramaic languages, short Aramaic ( syc, ܐܪܡܝܐ, Arāmāyā; oar, 𐤀𐤓𐤌𐤉𐤀; arc, 𐡀𐡓𐡌𐡉𐡀; tmr, אֲרָמִית), are a language family containing many varieties (languages and dialects) that originated i ...