Act
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Act or ACT may mean:
- Act (band), a British band
- Act (document), a document recording the legality of a transaction or contract
- Act of Parliament, Act of Congress or Act of Tynwald, a statute or law passed by a legislature
- Act (drama), a segment of a performance, such as a play or opera
- Act or Acts, an obsolete name for the defence of theses at the University of Oxford and University of Cambridge
- Act! CRM, a customer relationship management software
- Acting, action of an actor in a theatrical performance
- Acting (law), in law when someone is acting in a position of higher expenses
- Acting (rank), in the military when someone assumes a higher rank temporarily
- Act or S-act, the action of a monoid on a set, or a semiautomaton.
- ISO 639-3 language code for Achterhooks
- Acetylcholine, (ACt/ACh) a neurotransmitter
Acts may mean:
- Acts of the Apostles, a book of the Christian New Testament
Contents
ACT
- ACT (test), a college placement exam in the United States
- Australian Capital Territory, the capital territory of the Commonwealth of Australia
Business
- ACT mouthwash from Chattem
- Ada Core Technologies, now AdaCore, a software company that develops an Ada compiler, tools and libraries
- Advanced Cell Technology, a biotech corporation involved in researching and developing cloning and stem cell technologies
- Advanced Computer Techniques, a U.S. software and consulting company from 1962–1994
- Applied Computer Techniques, renamed Apricot Computers in 1985, a computer services company
- Aviation Composite Technology, an aircraft manufacturer in the Philippines
- ACT (NASDAQ), Automated Confirmation of Transactions, a trade reporting and clearing system
- Advance corporation tax, a tax collected in the United Kingdom until 1999
- Act! CRM, Contact Management and CRM software
Entertainment
- A.C.T, a progressive rock band from Sweden
- ACT Music, a German, Munich-based music label which was founded in 1992
- ACT Theatre, in Seattle, Washington
- American Conservatory Theater, in San Francisco, California
- Musical act, an individual or a group of musicians that are recognized as a unit
Government
- Allied Command Transformation, a NATO strategic command
- Advanced Concepts Team, a research team of the European Space Agency
Medicine
- Acceptance and commitment therapy, a type of cognitive-behavioral therapy
- Activated clotting time
- Adoptive cell transfer, transfer of cells into a patient, usually immune system cells
- Artemisinin based combination therapy, a treatment for malaria
- Assertive community treatment, a system for treating mental illness
Organisation
- ACT Alberta, a Canadian coalition to raise awareness about human trafficking
- ACT Alliance, an alliance of churches for coordinating humanitarian assistance and development work.
- ACT New Zealand, a political party in New Zealand
- Academy of Clinical Thyroidologists
- Addenbrooke's Charitable Trust
- Association for Competitive Technology, a technology lobby group
- The Association of Commercial Television in Europe, a group which represents the business interests of the commercial television sector at the EU institutions
- Association of Cinematograph Technicians, now the Association of Cinematograph Television and Allied Technicians
- Association of Corporate Treasurers
- Action for Children's Television, an organization dedicated to improvements in children's television
- Advanced Concepts Team, A research team of the European Space Agency
- Alliance of Concerned Teachers, an alliance of teachers, educators and teacher organizations in the Philippines
- America Coming Together, a United States political group
- AIDS Committee of Toronto, sponsor of Fashion Cares
- Alliance for Change and Transparency, a political party in Tanzania
- Asian College of Technology, a private university in the Philippines
- Association for Citizenship Teaching, a professional subject association for teachers of citizenship
- United Education Institute or Advanced Career Training, a private post-secondary educational facility with locations in Georgia and Florida
- Australian College of Theology
- Amazon Conservation Team, a non-profit organization that works in partnership with indigenous people to protect the Amazon rainforest
Science and technology
- ACT-R, a symbolic cognitive architecture
- ACT (audio format), file format
- Active voice or Actor role in interlinear glossing
- Apple Certified Trainer, one of the Apple certification programs
- Astrographic Catalog/Tycho, a star catalogue; see Hipparcos Catalogue
- Atacama Cosmology Telescope, a telescope in Chile
Sport
- Australia national cricket team
- American Canadian Tour, a race organisation.
Transport
- Ford ACT, a people mover, short for Automatically Controlled Transportation or Activity Center Transit
- Ascot railway station, a railway station in the United Kingdom with the National Rail code "ACT"
- Waco Regional Airport, an airport in Waco, Texas, United States, with the IATA airport code "ACT"
- Agency for Community Transit, Madison County Transit's paratransit system
- Azienda comunale del traffico, a former transport operator in Lugano, Switzerland
See also
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