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| '''The Arc''' is a national grassroots organization advocating for people with ] and their children. It is ranked by ] as the country’s 10th largest charitable organization. It provides education and systems advocacy to people with disabilities, families, human services organizations, the public, elected and other public officials. It has over 140,000 members affiliated through more than 850 state and local chapters across the United States. ] | |||
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- For abbreviations, see ARC
Arc may refer to:
Disability
The Arc is a national grassroots organization advocating for people with intellectual disabilities and their children. It is ranked by Forbes as the country’s 10th largest charitable organization. It provides education and systems advocacy to people with disabilities, families, human services organizations, the public, elected and other public officials. It has over 140,000 members affiliated through more than 850 state and local chapters across the United States. ]
Computing
- .arc, a file extension for archive files
- Arc programming language, a Lisp dialect in development by Paul Graham
- ARC Macro Language, a high-level algorithmic language for ArcInfo
- An arc is a component of an Object identifier as used in ASN.1
- ARC processor, an embedded processor family from http://www.arc.com
Engineering
- Arc lamp, a device that produces light by an electric arc
- Electric arc or voltaic arc, an ongoing plasma discharge (an electric current through a gas), producing light and heat
- In architecture, arc is another term for arch, a bowed or curved structure capable of spanning a space while supporting significant weight (e.g. a doorway in a stone wall), or possibly a free-standing structure, such as a triumphal arch
Geography
- Arc (Savoie), a river of eastern France, tributary of the Isère river
- Arc (Provence), a river of southern France, flowing into the Étang de Berre
- Les Arcs, a ski resort in the French Alps
- Volcanic arc or island arc, a chain of volcanic mountains or islands formed by plate tectonics
Literature and entertainment
- Story arc, an extended or continuing storyline
- Advance reading copy, an early copy of a book which is sent to reviewers, bookstores, and magazines
- Arc (album), a live album by Neil Young
- Arc (band), a Japanese visual kei band
- Arc, Stockton-on-Tees, an arts centre in Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham, England
- Attack Retrieve Capture, a multi player online game
- American Record Corporation
- "Arc" (song), a song by Pearl Jam
Mathematics
- Arc (geometry), a segment of a differentiable curve
- Arcminute, a measure used for angles, equal to 1/60th of a degree
- A directed edge in graph theory is sometimes referred to as an "arc"
- "arc-" is sometimes used as a prefix for an inverse function, specifically trigonometry functions
- Arc (projective geometry), a particular type of set of points of a projective plane.
Medicine
- ARC in Karolinska Institutet
- Aging Research Centre, an independent non-profit educational research centre
Other
- The Australian Research Council, the main agency for allocating government research funding in Australia
- The Appalachian Regional Commission, an agency devoted to the economic development of the Appalachian region of the U.S.
- Arc @ UNSW, the principal student organisation at the University of New South Wales
- Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, a Group 1 flat horse race
- The Arc (Bahá'í), a number of administrative buildings for the Bahá'í Faith, located on Mount Carmel in Israel
- Aramaic language (via ISO 639 alpha-3 code)
- Acceuil, Rencontre, Communauté, volunteers who organize guided tours of Christian monuments in Europe
See also
Topics referred to by the same term
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