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Acme (Greek: ακμή, the peak, zenith, prime) denotes the best of something.
Acme or ACME may also refer to:
[edit] Fiction, media and culture
- Acme Corporation (A Company that Makes Everything), a fictional company in the cartoon world of Looney Tunes
- ACME Detective Agency, a fictional detective agency from the Carmen Sandiego series of computer games and television shows
- Acme (album), the sixth album by the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
[edit] Science, medicine and technology
- ACME (health software) automated determination of cause of death, used by several governments for the generation of national mortality statistics
- Acne vulgaris, a skin condition originally called acme in Greek, but whose spelling has been corrupted
- Acme thread form, a screw thread used in specialized applications such as vises and leadscrews
- Acme (ADL), an architecture description language by Carnegie Mellon University
- Acme (text editor) is a text editor and development environment originally for the Plan 9 from Bell Labs operating system
- Acme (automobile), an automobile built between 1903–1911 in Reading, Pennsylvania
- ACME, open source development with Apache, ColdFusion, MySQL and Eclipse, coined by the The ACME Guide book/PDF
[edit] Companies
- Air Craft Marine Engineering, an aircraft designer based in Van Nuys, California, USA during the 1950s
- Acme Aircraft Corporation, an aircraft manufacturer based in Rockford, Illinois, USA during the 1920s
- Acme Boots, a manufacturer of western footwear owned by Berkshire Hathaway
- Acme Brick Company, a brick manufacturer that is a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway
- ACME Communications, a television broadcasting company, based in Santa Ana, USA
- Acme Fresh Market, a chain of grocery stores in Akron, Ohio, USA
- Acme Industrial Hardware Trading L.L.C., a shelving and material handling equipment supplier in Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Acme Markets, a chain of grocery stores in the northeastern United States
- Acme-Nuage Systems a shelving and material handling equipment supplier in Bangalore, India
- Acme Novelty Library, a comic book by cartoonist Chris Ware and published by Fantagraphics Books
- Acme Packet, a VoIP Session Border Controller manufacturer
- Acme Records, an independent record label
- Acme Whistles, a major producer of whistles
[edit] Locations
[edit] Canada
[edit] United States
