ARC may refer to:

Business

• African Rainforest Conservancy, an environmental nonprofit
• Airport Regions Conference, 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
• ARC (record company) (1929 1938), a United States record label also known as American Record Company
• American Reprographics Company
• Aqaba Railway Corporation, a freight railway in Jordan
• A&R Channel, American cable television video on demand network based in Los Angeles
• ARC/Architectural Resources Cambridge, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts
• ARC Diversified, a Cookeville, Tennessee non-profit that employs the severely disabled
• Archaeological Review from Cambridge, UK journal

Computing and gaming

• Adaptive replacement cache, a cache management algorithm
• Advanced Resource Connector, middleware for computational grids
• Advanced RISC Computing, a specification
• ARC (file format), a lossless data compression and archival file format
• ARC International, a computer processor designer
• ARC Macro Language, a high-level algorithmic language
• Attack Retrieve Capture, 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' tat
• Administrative Reforms Commission, Indian Government commission
• Alien registration card (Japan), for foreign residents of Japan
• Alien Resident Certificate, for foreign residents of Taiwan
• Army Reconnaissance Course, United States Army Armor School, Fort Knox, Kentucky
• Appalachian Regional Commission, United States federal-state partnership
• Atlanta Regional Commission, a regional planning and intergovernmental coordination agency
• Auckland Regional Council, New Zealand local government entity
• Australian Research Council, government agency for allocating research funding
• Aviation Royale Canadienne, the Royal Canadian Air Force.

Humanitarian and religious organizations

• ARC triangle, Affinity, Reality and Communication, the component parts of Understanding in Scientology
• Alliance of Religions and Conservation, UK
• American Red Cross
• ARC Association for Real Change, UK organisation supporting people with a learning disability
• Arthritis Research Campaign, UK medical charity
• Association for Retarded Citizens, former name of the Arc of the United States
• Society for the Arts, Religion and Contemporary Culture, 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)
• ARC Europe (Accueil, Rencontre, Communaut ), 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, a music repository in New York City
• Art Renewal Center, an organization dedicated to classical realism in art
• Automation and Remote Control, a Russian periodical
• Canadian artist-run centres (ARCs), a series of galleries by artists in Canada

Research organizations

• Alberta Research Council, government funded applied R&D corporation
• Ames Research Center, a NASA facility located at Moffett Federal Airfield, California
• ARC in Karolinska Institutet, aging research center in Sweden
• 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
• Aviation Research Centre, a part of the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) of the Cabinet Secretariat, India

Sport

• Adelaide Rowing Club, in Adelaide, South Australia
• African Rally Championship, 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, Roswell, Georgia
• Atlantic Rally for Cruisers, transatlantic sailing competition
• Australian Rally Championship
• Australian Rugby Championship (August October 2007), rugby union

Other

• Academy of Richmond County, 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, a condition in which antibody tests are positive for HIV
• American River College, 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 (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, Alaska
• Activity relationship chart, 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)
• ARCS (disambiguation)
• Ark (disambiguation)

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