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Act or ACT may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

  • Acting, theatrical performance
  • Act (drama), a segment of a play or opera
  • Musical act
  • Act (band), a British band
  • A.C.T, a Swedish band
  • ACT Music, a German music label
  • ACT Theatre, in Seattle, Washington, US
  • American Conservatory Theater, in San Francisco, California, US
  • Acts, a 2012 album by American band RNDM

Organizations

Business

  • AdaCore, formerly Ada Core Technologies, Ada specialist software company
  • Advanced Cell Technology, stem cell company
  • Advanced Computer Techniques, a U.S. software company 1962–1994
  • Applied Computer Techniques, later Apricot Computers, UK
  • Atria Convergence Technologies, a telecommunications company in India
  • Aviation Composite Technology, an aircraft manufacturer in the Philippines

Education

  • Asian College of Technology, Cebu City, Philippines
  • Australian College of Theology
  • ACT (nonprofit organization), provides assessments etc. for US school students etc.
    • ACT (test), for college admission, US

Government / military

  • Advanced Concepts Team, a research team of the European Space Agency
  • Agency for Community Transit, Madison County Transit's paratransit system
  • Allied Command Transformation, a NATO strategic command
  • Azienda comunale del traffico, a former transport operator in Lugano, Switzerland

Political parties and campaigning groups

Political parties and advocacy groups

  • 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
  • ACT-CIS Partylist, a political party in the Philippines, representing marginalised people
  • ACT Teachers Partylist, a political party in the Philippines, representing teachers
  • ACT! for America, an advocacy group in the United States
  • Action for Children's Television, an organization dedicated to improvements in children's television
  • Agir, (French for Act), a political party in France
  • Alliance for Change and Transparency, a political party in Tanzania
  • Amazon Conservation Team, a non-profit organization that works in partnership with indigenous people to protect the Amazon rainforest
  • America Coming Together, a US political group

Professional

Sports

Other

  • Addenbrooke's Charitable Trust, a UK charity
  • The Association of Commercial Television in Europe, a group which represents the business interests of the commercial television sector at the EU institutions
  • Anglican Church in Thailand
  • Associated Container Transport (ACT) a consortium of five British shipping companies - Ben Line, Blue Star Line, Cunard (Port Line), Ellerman Lines and the Harrison Line

Law

Places

Science, technology, and mathematics

Computing

  • ACT-R, a symbolic cognitive architecture
  • Apple Certified Trainer, one of the Apple certification programs
  • ACT (NASDAQ), Automated Confirmation of Transactions, a trade reporting and clearing system
  • Act! CRM, Contact Management and CRM software

Medicine

Other uses in science, technology, and mathematics

Other uses

  • ACT mouthwash, produced by Chattem
  • Acting (rank), temporary military rank
  • Achterhooks, ISO 639-3 language code, a Dutch dialect
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