Arch (disambiguation)

An arch is a curved structure capable of spanning a space while supporting significant weight.

Arch, The Arch or Arches may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

• The Arch, a 1968 Hong Kong drama film
• Arches (Lerdahl) (2011), composition by Fred Lerdahl
• Arch (sculpture), in Lynden Sculpture Garden near Milwaukee, Wisconsin

People

• Arch (name), a list of people with the given name or surname

Places

• Arch, Switzerland, a municipality in the canton of Bern
• Arch Islands, Falkland Islands
• Arch Creek (Montana), United States
• Arches, Cantal, a commune of the Cantal département, France
• Arches, Vosges, a commune of the Vosges département, France
• Arches National Park, Utah, United States
• Arches Cluster, a massive, young cluster of stars

Science and technology

• Arch Linux, a Linux distribution founded by Judd Vinet that emphasizes simplicity
• GNU arch, in software, a source code management tool
• The protein archaerhodopsin-3, a light-driven proton pump used for research in optogenetics, a technology for controlling brain activity using light

Ships

• USS Arch, original name of the Soviet minesweeper T-117
• SS Arches, original name of the SS English Trader

Structures

• Gateway Arch, an iconic monument in St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
• The Arch (Hong Kong), a residential skyscraper in Kowloon, Hong Kong
• The Arch, structure at the north entrance to the University of Georgia which symbolizes the university

ARCH

• Action on Rights for Children, a nonprofit children’s rights organisation in the U.K.
• ARCH Air Medical Service (Area Rescue Consortium of Hospitals), providing critical care air ambulance service in Missouri, Illinois, and the surrounding regions
• Autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity, a time series regression model of the standard deviation (volatility) of a financial time series
• ARCH+, a German magazine

Other uses

• Natural arch, a rock formation shaped like an arch
• Arches of the foot
• Arch (fingerprint), a basic pattern
• Inverted breve, a diacritic sign
• Arch Street (Philadelphia), Pennsylvania, United States
• Arch Coal, an American coal mining and processing company
• WARH, an FM radio station serving the St. Louis, Missouri, branded "106.5 The Arch"

See also

• Arch 22, a commemorative arch in The Gambia
• Archway (disambiguation)
• Arch Rock (disambiguation)
• Arc (disambiguation)