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Acme may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

  • 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
  • Acme (album), an album by the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
  • Acme Novelty Library, a comics serial written and drawn by Chris Ware

Science and technology

Organizations

United States

United Kingdom

Places

United States

Buildings

Ships

Vehicles

Other

  • Acme (solitaire), a card game
  • Acme, the highest pitch of perfection. Old medical writers divided the progress of a disease into the arche, or beginning; the anabasis or increase; the acme, or crisis; and the paracme, or decline.[1]

See also

  1. ^ Brewer, E. Cobham (1970). Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. Harper & Row. p. 7.