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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

People

• 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

Bangladesh

• The ACME Laboratories Ltd, a pharmaceutical company

United Kingdom

• 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 Software, a former name of Rockstar North, a video game development company

United States

• 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
• Australian Centre for the Moving Image, a museum in Melbourne, Australia

Places

Canada

• Acme, Alberta, a village

United States

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Acme motorcycle (1911–1913), an Australian motorcycle
• Acme motorcycle (1915–1917), a motorcycle assembled in Burnie, Tasmania
• Acme motorcycle (1939–1949), an Australian motorcycle

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