Arch (disambiguation)

An arch is a curved structure capable of spanning a space while supporting significant weight.

Arch, Arches, or The Arch may also refer to:


 * Arches of the foot
 * Arch (fingerprint), a basic pattern
 * Natural arch, a rock formation shaped like an arch

Geography

 * Arch Islands, Falkland Islands
 * Arch, Switzerland, a municipality in the canton of Bern
 * Arch Creek (Montana), United States
 * Arch 22, a commemorative arch in The Gambia
 * Arch Street (Philadelphia), Pennsylvania, United States
 * Arches, Cantal, a commune of the Cantal département, France
 * Arches, Vosges, a commune of the Vosges département, France
 * Arches National Park, Utah, United States
 * Arches Cluster, a massive, young cluster of stars

People

 * Arch (name), a list of people with the given name or surname
 * Desmond Tutu (1931–2021), South African archbishop, nicknamed "The Arch"
 * E. L. Arch, a pen name of American novelist Rachel Cosgrove Payes (1922–1998)
 * John Arch, American singer John Maurice Archambault (born 1959)

Arts, entertainment, and media

 * Arches (Lerdahl) (2011), composition by Fred Lerdahl
 * Arch (sculpture), in Lynden Sculpture Garden near Milwaukee, Wisconsin
 * ARCH+, a German magazine for architecture, urbanism and design
 * The Arch (nightclub), a nightclub in Brighton, England
 * The Arch, a theatre space in Holden Street Theatres, Adelaide, Australia
 * The Arch (film), a 1968 Hong Kong drama film
 * WARH, an FM radio station serving the St. Louis, Missouri, branded "106.5 The Arch"

Science and technology

 * Arch, the protein archaerhodopsin-3, a light-driven proton pump used for research in optogenetics, a technology for controlling brain activity using light
 * Arch Linux, a Linux distribution that emphasizes simplicity
 * GNU arch, in software, a source code management tool
 * RetroArch, a free and open source emulator for a wide variety of games.
 * Branchial arches, a series of bony "loops" present in fish, which support the gill

Ships

 * SS Arches, original name of the SS English Trader
 * USS Arch, original name of the Soviet minesweeper T-117

Structures

 * Gateway Arch, an iconic monument in St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
 * The Arch (Hong Kong), a residential skyscraper in Kowloon, Hong Kong
 * The Arch, a structure at the north entrance to the University of Georgia which symbolizes the university
 * The Arch, name for the renovated Archbold Stadium at Syracuse University

ARCH

 * Action on Rights for Children, a nonprofit children's rights organisation in the U.K.
 * ARCH Air Medical Service (Area Rescue Consortium of Hospitals), providing critical care air ambulance service in Missouri, Illinois, and the surrounding regions
 * Autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity, a time series regression model of the standard deviation (volatility) of a financial time series

Other uses

 * Arch (horse), an American Thoroughbred racehorse
 * Arch Coal, an American coal mining and processing company
 * Inverted breve, a diacritic sign
 * arch-, a taxonomic affix