Acme
Appearance
Acme is Ancient Greek (ἀκμή; English transliteration: akmē) for "the peak", "zenith" or "prime". It may refer to:
Arts, entertainment and games
[edit]- 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
People
[edit]- 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
Businesses, buildings and institutions
[edit]Bangladesh
[edit]- The ACME Laboratories Ltd, a pharmaceutical company
United Kingdom
[edit]- 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
United States
[edit]- 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
Australia
[edit]- Australian Centre for the Moving Image, a museum in Melbourne, Australia
Places
[edit]Canada
[edit]- Acme, Alberta, a village
United States
[edit]- Acme, Indiana, an unincorporated town
- Acme, Kansas, an unincorporated community
- Acme, Louisiana, an unincorporated community
- Acme, Michigan, an unincorporated community
- Acme Township, Michigan
- Acme, North Carolina, an unincorporated community
- Acme Township, Hettinger County, North Dakota
- Acme, Oklahoma, a ghost town
- Acme, Pennsylvania, an unincorporated community
- Acme, Texas, a ghost town
- Acme, Washington, a census-designated place
- Acme, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
Science, technology and mathematics
[edit]- 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
Ships
[edit]- 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
Vehicles
[edit]- Acme motorcycle (1911–1913), an Australian motorcycle
- Acme motorcycle (1915–1917), a motorcycle assembled in Burnie, Tasmania
- Acme motorcycle (1939–1949), an Australian motorcycle