Acme

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Acme (Greek ακμή, the peak, zenith, prime) denotes the best of something.

It is the name most frequently used in jurisprudence to indicate a fictional company or corporation (or generically a subject with juridical personality), in order to simulate a concrete case of application or interpretation of the law. Usually, in English-speaking common law the name John Doe/Jane Doe is similarly used for a fictional subject with physical personality (Romans used Aulus Agerius and Numerius Negidius, or the triad Titius, Gaius, Sempronius).

See also: kadigan

Uses include:

• The Acme Corporation is a fictional corporation in the Looney Tunes Cartoons, suppliers of every kind of explosive device and other novelties, such as jet-propelled roller-skates.
• The ACME Detective Agency is a fictional detective agency in the Carmen Sandiego series.
• Acme Thread Form is a screw thread used in specialized applications such as vises and leadscrews.
• Acme is an international e-journal for critical geographies.
• AcMe is a German metalcore band.
• Acme was the name of a tanker ship before her renaming as Abarenda and subsequent commissioning by the US Navy.
• The Acme user interface for programmers by Rob Pike is a text editor for the Plan 9 operating system.
• Acme:: is the Perl software language's module namespace for bizarre or humorous software packages.
• The skin condition acne was originally called acme in Greek, but the spelling was corrupted.

Placenames:

• Acme, Michigan, a town
• Acme, Pennsylvania, a town
• Acme, Washington, a town
• Acme Township, Michigan, a township
• Acme Township, North Dakota, a township

Trademarks and trade names:

• Acme Markets, an American grocery store chain owned by Albertsons.
• Acme Brick Company is a manufacturer of brick, including decorative shapes, in the United States.
• Acme Novelty Library, a comic book by cartoonist Chris Ware and published by Fantagraphics Books.
• A.C.M.E. S.r.l., an Italian model railway manufacturer based in Milano.
• Acme Records, an independent record label.
• Acme is
  

  
  an in-house brand name formerly used by Sears-Roebuck to sell, among other things, anvils.
• Acme Skateboards

External links

• ACME Laboratories: List of other ACMEs