Arch (disambiguation) explained

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

See also