ACT

ACT may refer to:

  • Australian Capital Territory, the capital territory of the Commonwealth of Australia
  • ACT (test), a college placement exam in the United States

In business:

  • ACT mouthwash from Chattem
  • Advanced Cell Technology, a biotech corporation involved in researching and developing cloning and stem cell technologies
  • Ada Core Technologies, now AdaCore, a software company that develops an Ada compiler, tools and libraries
  • 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!, contact management software

Organizations:

  • 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
  • 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

In government:

  • Allied Command Transformation, a NATO strategic command
  • Advanced Concepts Team, a research team of the European Space Agency

In 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

In medicine:

  • Artemisinin based combination therapy, a treatment for malaria
  • Assertive community treatment, a system for treating mental illness
  • Acceptance and commitment therapy, a type of cognitive-behavioral therapy
  • Activated clotting time

In entertainment:

  • A.C.T, a progressive rock band from Sweden
  • ACT Theatre, in Seattle, Washington
  • American Conservatory Theater, in San Francisco, California

In sport:

  • Australia national cricket team
  • American Canadian Tour, a race organisation.

In 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

Famous quotes containing the word act:

    “Even the simple act that we call “going to visit a person of our acquaintance” is in part an intellectual act. We fill the physical appearance of the person we see with all the notions we have about him, and in the totality of our impressions about him, these notions play the most important role.”
    —Marcel Proust (1871–1922)

    “By act of Congress, male officers are gentlemen, but by act of God, we are ladies. We don’t have to be little mini-men and try to be masculine and use obscene language to come across. I can take you and flip you on the floor and put your arms behind your back and you’ll never move again, without your ever knowing that I can do it.”
    —Sherian Grace Cadoria (b. 1940)

    “psychologist
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    —Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)