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Acme ( /ˈækmiː/; Greek: ακμή, the peak, zenith, prime) denotes the best of something.

Acme or ACME may also refer to:

Fiction and media[link]

• Acme Corporation, 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
• Acme Novelty Library, a comics serial written and drawn by Chris Ware

Science and technology[link]

• Advisory Committee on Mathematics Education, a British organisation
• ACME, open source development with Apache, ColdFusion, MySQL and Eclipse, coined by The ACME Guide book/PDF
• Acme (ADL), an architecture description language by Carnegie Mellon University
• Acme (automobile), an automobile built between 1903–1911 in Reading, Pennsylvania
• Acme (computer virus), a computer virus which infects Microsoft DOS EXE files
• ACME (health software) automated determination of cause of death, used by several governments for the generation of national mortality statistics
• Acme (text editor) is 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

Companies[link]

• ACME (Space), an architecture firm based in London
• 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 Bread Company, a bakery in Berkeley, California
• Acme Brick Company, a brick manufacturer that is a subsidiary of Berkshire, Hathaway
• ACME Comedy Theatre, a sketch comedy and improvisational theater located near Hollywood
• ACME Communications, a television broadcasting company, based in Santa Ana, USA
• Acme Fresh Market, a chain of grocery stores in Akron, Ohio, USA
• Acme Markets, a chain of grocery stores in the northeastern United States
• Acme Packet, a VoIP Session Border Controller manufacturer
• Acme Records, an independent record label
• Acme Tackle Company, a producer of fishing tackle in Providence, Rhode Island
• Acme Whistles, a major producer of whistles
• Air Craft Marine Engineering, an aircraft designer based in Van Nuys, California, USA during the 1950s
• Association of Management Consulting Engineers, an international not-for-profit association

Places[link]

Canada[link]

• Acme, Alberta

United States[link]

• Acme, Indiana
• Acme Township, Michigan
• Acme Township, Hettinger County, North Dakota
• Acme, Pennsylvania
• Acme, Washington

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Look up Line, line, or lines in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Line or lines may refer to:

Science and technology[link]

• Line (electrical engineering), a circuit or loop.
  • A power line for electric power transmission
  • line power or lines power, domestic mains electricity.
  • telephone line
  • RF transmission line
  • Line level, a common standard for audio signals.
• Line (video), a measure of video display resolution or image resolution
• line, former name of the unit of magnetic flux, the Maxwell
• Line (unit), an obsolete unit of length equal to one-twelfth or one-tenth of an inch.
• Line (geometry), an infinitely-extending one-dimensional figure that has no curvature.
• line: a medical catheter, particularly one used for intravenous treatment.
  • CVP line
  • PICC line
  • umbilical line
• Line (text file), a row of characters as a unit of organization within text files.
• A "line of longitude" or "line of latitude" in geography. "The Line" may refer to the equator.
• Relationships in genetics and genealogy, such as Lineage and kinship and descent.

Transport[link]

• Railway line
• Shipping line, a company engaged in sea transport.
• The International Load Line or Plimsoll line (Waterline), indicates the maximum safe draft for the vessel
• Airline
• A bus line, see List of bus operating companies

Business[link]

• Line function, a business activity.
• Product lining, in marketing.

Military[link]

• Line (formation), a standard tactical formation of forces.
  • Line infantry, a line formation of infantrymen who were part of the "Line Regiments".
• Line of battle, in naval warfare, a line of warships, hence "Ship of the line".

Sports[link]

• In water sports: small rope
• The point spread in spread betting
• In cricket, the direction of a delivery, see line and length.
• Offensive line or defensive line in American football.
• Racing line, in auto racing, a path taken through a corner.
• In kiting: kite line
• In fishing: fishing line

Arts[link]

• Line (play), a 1967 long-running play written by Israel Horovitz.
• Line (singer), a Danish singer and finalist in the Danish X Factor
• Lines (Emily Brontë poem), written in December 1837.
• Lines Review, a Scottish literary periodical published between 1952 and 1998.
• "Lines", abbreviation for "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour. July 13, 1798", a poem by William Wordsworth
• A line of text in writing or typography.
• Line (poetry), the fundamental unit of poetic composition.
• Line, or the melody in a musical composition.
• The dialogue to be spoken in a script or screenplay.

Sewing and fashion[link]

• To insert a Lining
• Fashion line
• Style line
• Empire line or Empire silhouette

The abbreviation LINE[link]

• LINE (combat system), a martial arts system
• Long interspersed nuclear element (LINE), a type of retrotransposon in genomics.

Other[link]

• Line (given name), a Danish and Norwegian female given name
• A length of rope, cable, or chain when put to use (such as a clothesline, anchor line)
• A line or queue of people waiting in a queue area
• A thin continuous length of ink or other marking in a drawing
• A geographical or political border that is clearly defined and demarcated
• A name given to some roads in Ontario, usually running perpendicular to concession roads
• Lines (punishment), punishment by forced writing of text
• Party line (politics), an idiom for a political party or social movement's canon agenda
• Lines of cocaine
• Lines (video game)
• A one-, two- or three-line whip, a notice issued by a Chief Whip in the UK parliament
• A "straight line" is used to set up a joke, while the punch line completes it
• Line Islands, an island group in the central Pacific
• Line, a drug in the video game Togainu no Chi

See also[link]

• Division of Lyne, Australian electoral district
• Lyne (surname)
• Lyne, Denmark (town)
• Liner (disambiguation)
• Lining (disambiguation)

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Ryan Maifield is a professional remote control car driver, currently running for Team Associated. He is a two-time ROAR Champion in the 1/8 gas buggy division as well as a multi-time champion in the 1/10 offroad classes.

External links[link]

• Team Associated official site

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