title: Arch (disambiguation)
text: # 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
  