Arch (disambiguation)
# 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

## 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
