ARC

ARC may refer to:

Business

Airlines Reporting Corporation, an airline-owned company that provides ticket distribution, reporting, and settlement services
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
American Record Corporation (1929–1938), a United States record label also known as American Record Company
American Reprographics Company
Amey Roadstone Construction, a former British construction 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
ARC International, a computer processor designer, and a subsidiary of Synopsys
Archaeological Review from Cambridge, UK journal
Arena Racing Company, a British racecourse owning group

Advance reading copy, an early copy of a book which is sent to reviewers, bookstores, and magazines
A.R.C. (album), by pianist Chick Corea with bassist David Holland and drummer Barry Altschul recorded in 1971
ARC-170, a Star Wars starfighter
ARC Europe (Accueil, Rencontre, Communauté), a eucumenical organisation which provides free guided tours in European cathedrals during the summer months
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 (or ARCs), a series of galleries by artists in Canada

Administrative Reforms Commission, 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, United States federal-state partnership
Army Reconnaissance Course, United States Army Armor School, Fort Knox, Kentucky
Atlanta Regional Commission, a regional planning and intergovernmental coordination agency
Auckland Regional Council, former New Zealand local government entity
Australian Research Council, government agency for allocating research funding
Royal Canadian Air Force (French: Aviation Royale Canadienne)

Alliance of Religions and Conservation, UK
American Red Cross, a humanitarian organization that provides emergency assistance, disaster relief and education inside the United States
ARC Association for Real Change, UK organisation supporting people with a learning disability
ARC triangle, Affinity, Reality and Communication, the component parts of Understanding in Scientology
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

Agricultural Research Council, a former British organisation that funded agricultural research
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

Adelaide Rowing Club, in Adelaide, South Australia
African Rally Championship, international automobile rally
Americas Rugby Championship
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

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
Activity relationship chart, a tabular means of displaying closeness ratings between activities
African Rainforest Conservancy, an environmental nonprofit
Agulhas Return Current, an ocean current in the Indian Ocean
AIDS-related complex, a condition in which antibody tests are positive for HIV
American River College, a community college in Sacramento County, California
AN/ARC-5, communications system used by U.S. Navy aircraft during and after World War II
Anteater Recreation Center, an indoor gym at the University of California, Irvine
ARC (Callsign), used by the Colombian National Armada ships
ARC (protein), acronym for "activity-regulated cytoskeleton-associated" protein
ARC (station), Amtrak's station in Arcata, California
Arctic Village Airport, a public use airport located southwest of the central business district of Arctic Village, a Native American village in the Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska by IATA airport-code
ARC, the United States Navy hull classification symbol for "cable repairing ship" or "cable laying ship"
Official Aramaic language (spoken between 700 BCE and 300 BCE) by ISO 639-3 language code