Acme

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

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, the provisional monicker 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 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

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