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

Arts and entertainment

  • Acme (band), a Japanese rock band
  • Acme (album), an album by the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
  • Acme (card game), a form of solitaire
  • Acme and Septimius, a fictional couple in Catullus 45, a poem by Roman poet Catullus
  • 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

Businesses

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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 Whistles, a major producer of whistles
  • Acme, the provisional moniker that preceded Rockstar North (formerly DMA Design), a video game developer

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 Fresh Market, a chain of grocery stores in northeast Ohio
  • Acme Markets, a chain of grocery stores in the northeast
  • Acme Motor Truck Company, an early motor truck manufacturer
  • 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

People

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

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), originally named SS Acme, a storage tanker
  • Acme (1876), a schooner built in Sydney, Australia
  • Acme (steamboat), which operated in the state of Washington from 1899 to 1910

Vehicles

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

Other uses

  • Australian Centre for the Moving Image, a museum in Melbourne, Australia
  • Acme Studios, a London charity that provides studio and living space for visual artists
  • Acme Farm Supply Building, Nashville, Tennessee, United States, on the National Register of Historic Places
  • ACME Comic Con, a fan convention held in Glasgow

See also