Act

Act, ACT, or The Act may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Theatre and drama

Acting, an activity in which a story is told by means of its enactment by an actor who adopts a character
Act (drama), a major division or unit of drama, including plays, films, operas, ballets, or musicals
A Contemporary Theatre (ACT), now Union Arts Center, in Seattle, Washington, US
American Conservatory Theater, in San Francisco, California, US

Music

Act (band), a British band
ACT (Swedish band)
The Act (band), a 1980s Norwegian rock band
ACT Music, a German music label
ACT (album), by Ben Wendel, Harish Raghavan, and Nate Wood, 2009
Act (EP), by Kang Daniel, 2024
Acts (album), by RNDM, 2012
The Act (musical), 1977
UnoTheActivist (Troy Vashon Donte Lane, born 1996), or The Act, American rapper

Film and television

The Act (1989 film), a 1989 British television film by Richard Langridge
The Act (TV series), a 2019 true crime TV series
The Act (video game), 2007

Business and organizations

Businesses

AdaCore, formerly Ada Core Technologies, Ada specialist software company
Advanced Cell Technology, Inc, now Astellas Institute for Regenerative Medicine
Advanced Computer Techniques, an American software company 1962–1994
Applied Computer Techniques, later Apricot Computers
Atria Convergence Technologies, a telecommunications company in India
Aviation Composite Technology, an aircraft manufacturer in the Philippines

Education

ACT (for-profit organization)
- ACT (test), a standardized test used for college admissions in the US
Asian College of Technology, Cebu City, Philippines
Australian College of Theology, now Australian University of Theology

Political organizations

Act (Brazil), a political party
Act! (Italy), a political party
ACT-CIS Partylist, a political organization in the Philippines
ACT New Zealand, a political party
Agir (France) (French, 'Act'), a political party
Alliance for Change and Transparency, a political party in Tanzania
Alliance of Concerned Teachers, a political organization in the Philippines
America Coming Together, an American political action group

Professional organizations

Other organizations

ACT Alliance, an alliance of churches provide humanitarian aid
ACT Alberta, a Canadian coalition to raise awareness about human trafficking
ACT for America, an anti-Islam advocacy group in the US
Action for Children's Television, an American advocacy group
Addenbrooke's Charitable Trust, a British charity
Advanced Concepts Team, a research team of the European Space Agency
Allied Command Transformation, a NATO strategic command
Amazon Conservation Team, a non-profit organization that works to protect the Amazon rainforest
Anglican Church in Thailand
Association for Children with Life-threatening and Terminal conditions (ACT), now Together for Short Lives, a British children's charity
Association of Commercial Television in Europe
Australian Civic Trust, an urban design organization

Law

Act (document), an instrument that records a fact or something that has been said, done, or agreed
- Notarial act
- Act of parliament, passed by the legislative body of a jurisdiction
  - Act of Parliament (United Kingdom)
  - Act of Congress, United States
  - Act of Tynwald, Isle of Man
Acting (law), temporarily exercising the powers of a vacant position
Advance corporation tax, a tax collected in the UK until 1999

Science and technology

Computing

Act! LLC, a customer relationship management software
ACT (Nasdaq) (Automated Confirmation of Transactions), a system for reporting and clearing trades
Apple Certified Trainer, one of the Apple certification programs

Medicine

Acceptance and commitment therapy, a type of cognitive-behavioral therapy
Activated clotting time, a test of coagulation
Adoptive cell transfer, transfer of cells into a patient, usually immune system cells
Artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) for malaria
Assertive community treatment, an approach for community mental health service delivery

Other uses in science and technology

ACT (audio format)
Act or S-act, a semigroup action in algebra and theoretical computer science
Astrographic Catalog/Tycho or Tycho-2 Catalogue, an astronomical catalogue
Atacama Cosmology Telescope, in Chile

Transportation

Air ACT, a Turkish airline
AC Transit, a bus transit operator in San Francisco Bay Area, US
Agency for Community Transit Inc., operator of Madison County Transit services in the US
Azienda comunale del traffico, a former transport operator in Lugano, Switzerland
Puerto Rico Highways and Transportation Authority (Spanish: Autoridad de Carreteras y Transportación)
Ford ACT, a 1970s people mover system
Ascot railway station (Berkshire), England, station code ACT
Waco Regional Airport, in Texas, US, IATA airport code ACT

Other uses

ACT mouthwash, produced by Opella North America
Achterhooks, a Dutch dialect, ISO 639-3 language code act
American Canadian Tour, a stock car racing series
Australian Capital Territory, an internal territory of Australia, containing the capital city Canberra
Courtney Act, Australian drag queen and TV personality
Hamaas (Hebrew: המעש, lit. 'The Act') a propaganda newspaper of the Lehi, a terrorist group in 1940s Palestine

Act

Arts and entertainment

Theatre and drama

Music

Film and television

Business and organizations

Businesses

Education

Political organizations

Professional organizations

Other organizations

Law

Science and technology

Computing

Medicine

Other uses in science and technology

Transportation

Other uses

See also