Act
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Act, ACT, or The Act may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
- The Act, American rapper also known as UnoTheActivist
 - A.C.T, a Swedish band
 - Act (band), a British band
 - The Act (band), a Norwegian rock band from the 1980s
 - Act (drama), a segment of a dramatic or musical work (such as a play, opera, or ballet)
 - Acting, theatrical performance
 - ACT Music, a German music label
 - The Act (musical), a 1977 musical
 - The Act (1989 film), a 1989 British television film by Richard Langridge
 - Acts, a 2012 album by American band RNDM
 - ACT Theatre, in Seattle, Washington, US
 - The Act (TV series), a 2019 true crime TV series
 - The Act (video game), a 2007 arcade game produced by Cecropia
 - American Conservatory Theater, in San Francisco, California, US
 - Arts & Culture Trust, a South African cultural organisation responsible for the ACT Awards
 
Aviation
- Aviation Composite Technology, an aircraft manufacturer in the Philippines
 - IATA airport code for Waco Regional Airport in State of Texas, USA
 
Business organizations
- AdaCore, formerly Ada Core Technologies, Ada specialist software company
 - Advanced Cell Technology, stem cell company
 - Advanced Computer Techniques, a U.S. software company 1962–1994
 - Applied Computer Techniques, later Apricot Computers, UK
 - Atria Convergence Technologies, a telecommunications company in India
 
Education
- ACT (for-profit organization), provides assessments etc. for US school students etc.
- ACT (test), for college admission, US
 
 - Asian College of Technology, Cebu City, Philippines
 - Australian College of Theology
 
Government / military
- AC Transit, a transit agency serving Alameda and Contra Costa Counties, California
 - Advanced Clean Trucks Regulation, a rule made by the California Air Resources Board which requires trucks to decarbonize
 - Advanced Concepts Team, a research team of the European Space Agency
 - Agency for Community Transit, a paratransit system for Madison County Transit, Illinois
 - Allied Command Transformation, a NATO strategic command
 - Azienda comunale del traffico, a former transport operator in Lugano, Switzerland
 - Puerto Rico Highways and Transportation Authority (Spanish: Autoridad de Carreteras y Transportación)
 
Law
- Act (document), a document recording the legality of a transaction or contract
 - Acting (law), someone temporarily exercising the powers of a vacant position
 - Act of parliament, Act of Congress, or Act of Tynwald, a statute or law passed by a legislature
 - Advance corporation tax, a tax collected in the UK until 1999
 
Political parties and campaigning/advocacy groups
- ACT Alberta, a Canadian coalition to raise awareness about human trafficking
 - ACT Alliance, an alliance of churches for coordinating humanitarian assistance and development work
 - ACT-CIS Partylist, a political party in the Philippines
 - ACT for America, an advocacy group in the United States
 - Action for Children's Television, an organization dedicated to improvements in children's television
 - Act! (Italy), an Italian political party
 - ACT New Zealand, a political party in New Zealand
 - ACT Teachers Partylist, a political party in the Philippines
 - Agir (France) (French for "Act"), a political party in France
 - Alliance for Change and Transparency, a political party in Tanzania
 - Amazon Conservation Team, a non-profit organization that works to protect the Amazon rainforest
 - America Coming Together, a US political group
 
Professional organizations
- Academy of Clinical Thyroidologists, United States
 - Alliance of Concerned Teachers, Philippines
 - American College of Toxicology
 - Association for Citizenship Teaching, UK
 - Association of Cinematograph, Television and Allied Technicians, UK
 - Association of Corporate Treasurers, UK
 
Other organizations
- ACT, former name of Together for Short Lives, a children's charity in the United Kingdom
 - Addenbrooke's Charitable Trust, a UK charity
 - Anglican Church in Thailand
 - The Association of Commercial Television in Europe, a group representing the business interests of commercial television in the EU
 - Australian Civic Trust, an Australian urban design organization
 
Science, technology, and mathematics
Computing
- Act! LLC, a customer relationship management software
 - ACT (NASDAQ), Automated Confirmation of Transactions, a trade reporting and clearing system
 - ACT-R, a symbolic cognitive architecture
 - Apple Certified Trainer, one of the Apple certification programs
 
Medicine
- Acceptance and commitment therapy, a type of cognitive-behavioral therapy
 - Acetylcholine, (ACt/ACh) a neurotransmitter
 - Activated clotting time, a test of coagulation
 - Adoptive cell transfer, transfer of cells into a patient, usually immune system cells
 - Artemisinin based combination therapy, a treatment for malaria
 - Assertive community treatment, a system for treating mental illness
 
Other uses in science, technology, and mathematics
- ACT, a codon for the amino acid Threonine
 - ACT (audio format), a file format
 - Act or S-act, the action of a monoid on a set, or a semiautomaton
 - Astrographic Catalog/Tycho or Tycho-2 Catalogue
 - Atacama Cosmology Telescope, Chile
 - Ford ACT, a transit system
 
Sports
- American Canadian Tour, a stock car racing series
 - Australia national cricket team
 
Transport
- ACT, the National Rail code for Ascot railway station, Berkshire, UK
 
Other uses
- Acting rank, temporary military rank
 - ACT, in linguistics, glossing abbreviation for active voice
 - ACT mouthwash, produced by Chattem
 - ACT, the ISO 639-3 language code for Achterhooks, a Dutch dialect
 - Australian Capital Territory ("The ACT"), the territory in which the Australian capital city of Canberra is seated
 - Courtney Act, Australian drag queen, singer, and television personality