Arch (disambiguation)
An arch is a curved structure capable of spanning a space while supporting significant weight.
Arch, Arches, or The Arch may also refer to:
- Arches of the foot
- Arch (fingerprint), a basic pattern
- Natural arch, a rock formation shaped like an arch
Geography
- Arch Islands, Falkland Islands
- Arch, Switzerland, a municipality in the canton of Bern
- Arch Creek (Montana), United States
- Arch 22, a commemorative arch in The Gambia
- Arch Street (Philadelphia), Pennsylvania, 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
People
- Arch (name), a list of people with the given name or surname
- Desmond Tutu (1931–2021), South African archbishop, nicknamed "The Arch"
- E. L. Arch, a pen name of American novelist Rachel Cosgrove Payes (1922–1998)
- John Arch, American singer John Maurice Archambault (born 1959)
Arts, entertainment, and media
- Arches (Lerdahl) (2011), composition by Fred Lerdahl
- Arch (sculpture), in Lynden Sculpture Garden near Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- ARCH+, a German magazine for architecture, urbanism and design
- The Arch (nightclub), a nightclub in Brighton, England
- The Arch, a theatre space in Holden Street Theatres, Adelaide, Australia
- The Arch (film), a 1968 Hong Kong drama film
- WARH, an FM radio station serving the St. Louis, Missouri, branded "106.5 The Arch"
Science and technology
- Arch, the protein archaerhodopsin-3, a light-driven proton pump used for research in optogenetics, a technology for controlling brain activity using light
- Arch Linux, a Linux distribution that emphasizes simplicity
- GNU arch, in software, a source code management tool
- RetroArch, a free and open source emulator for a wide variety of games.
- Branchial arches, a series of bony "loops" present in fish, which support the gill
Ships
- SS Arches, original name of the SS English Trader
- USS Arch, original name of the Soviet minesweeper T-117
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, a structure at the north entrance to the University of Georgia which symbolizes the university
- The Arch, name for the renovated Archbold Stadium at Syracuse 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
Other uses
- Arch (horse), an American Thoroughbred racehorse
- Arch Coal, an American coal mining and processing company
- Inverted breve, a diacritic sign
- arch-, a taxonomic affix