# 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

## Businesses, buildings and institutions
### Bangladesh

* The ACME Laboratories Ltd, a pharmaceutical company

### United Kingdom

* ACME Comic Con, a fan convention held in Glasgow at the Scottish Events Campus
* 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

### Australia

* Australian Centre for the Moving Image, a museum in Melbourne, Australia

## Places
### 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