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Not to be confused with Acne.

Acme is Ancient Greek (ἀκμή; English transliteration: akmē) for "the peak", "zenith" or "prime". It may refer to:

Arts, entertainment and games

Acme (album), an album by the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Acme and Septimius, a fictional couple in Catullus 45, a poem by Roman poet Catullus
Acme (band), Japanese rock band
Acme (card game), a form of solitaire
Acme Corporation, a fictional company originating in Looney Tunes cartoons, later a generic fictional company name
ACME Detective Agency, a fictional detective agency in the Carmen Sandiego computer games and television shows

Acme (enslaved woman) (died 5 BC), Jewish slave and personal maid to Empress Livia Drusilla
Andrea Carla Michaels, American crossword puzzle constructor and founder of Acme Naming

ACME Comic Con, a fan convention held in Glasgow at the Scottish Events Campus
Acme Motor Co, a defunct motorcycle manufacturer based in Coventry
Acme Press Ltd., a defunct comics publisher (and retailer) in England
Acme Space, an architecture firm based in London
Acme Studios, a London charity that provides studio and living space for visual artists
Acme Whistles, a major producer of whistles
Acme, the provisional monicker that preceded Rockstar North (formerly DMA Design), a video game developer

Acme Aircraft Co, later known as Sierradyne, an aircraft manufacturer based in Torrance, California
Acme Aircraft Corporation, an aircraft manufacturer based in Rockford, Illinois, during the 1920s
Acme (automobile) (and Acme Motor Car Company), an early motor car and manufacturer
Acme Boots, a manufacturer of western footwear owned by Berkshire Hathaway
Acme Bread Company, a bakery in Berkeley, California
Acme Brick, a brick manufacturer that is a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway
ACME Comedy Theatre, a sketch comedy and improvisational theater located near Hollywood
ACME Comics & Collectibles, a comics and collectibles store in Sioux City, Iowa
ACME Communications, a television broadcasting company, based in Santa Ana, California
Acme Farm Supply Building, a listed building in Nashville, Tennessee
Acme Fresh Market, a chain of grocery stores in northeast Ohio
Acme Markets, a chain of grocery stores in the northeast
Acme Naming, a company founded by Andrea Carla Michaels
ACME Newspictures
Acme Packet, a VoIP Session Border Controller manufacturer
Acme Tackle Company, a producer of fishing tackle in Providence, Rhode Island
Acme Tools, an American tool and equipment distributor
Acme Truck Line, a national transportation service based in Gretna, Louisiana
Acme United Corporation, a scissors manufacturer founded in 1867 in Naugatuck, Connecticut
Air Craft Marine Engineering, a short-lived aircraft manufacturer established in 1954

Acme (computer virus), a computer virus which infects DOS .EXE executable files
ACME (health software) automated determination of cause of death, used by several governments for the generation of national mortality statistics
Acme (text editor), a text editor and development environment originally for the Plan 9 from Bell Labs operating system
Acme thread form, a screw thread used in specialized applications such as vises and leadscrews
Acme zone, a biostratigraphic zone where a fossil reaches its peak abundance
Arginine catabolic mobile element, a genetic system used by bacteria to tolerate skin polyamine defense compounds
Automatic Certificate Management Environment, a protocol for communications between a certificate authority and its users' web or DNS servers
Summit or acme, a topographic term
Advisory Committee on Mathematics Education, a British organisation established in 2002 by the Royal Society and the Joint Mathematical Council
ACME Laboratories, an open source software host of Jef Poskanzer

Accentor-class minesweeper, a US Navy class sometimes called the Accentor/Acme class
- USS Acme (AMc-61), a coastal minesweeper launched in 1941
- USS Acme (MSO-508), a minesweeper launched in 1955
USS Abarenda (IX-131) SS Acme, original name of the, a storage tanker
Acme (1876), a schooner built in Sydney, Australia
Acme (steamboat), operated in the state of Washington from 1899 to 1910