ACTS

Acts or ACTS may refer to:

Christianity
  • Acts of the Apostles (genre), a genre of early Christian literature
  • Acts of the Apostles, the fifth book in the Bible's New Testament
  • Adoration, Confession/Contrition, Thanksgiving, Supplication (or Intercession) – an acronym intended to illustrate the different purposes of Christian prayer
  • ACTS Retirement-Life Communities - a faith based long-term care network.
Communications and television
  • Aboriginal Christian Television System
  • Advance Community Television Station, a television station in Trinidad and Tobago.
  • Advanced Communications Technology Satellite (ACTS), a satellite launched in 1993 by Space Shuttle Discovery on mission STS-51
  • American Christian Television Services, parent company of WTLW in Lima, Ohio
  • American Christian Television System, a defunct television network run by the Southern Baptist Convention
  • Associated Christian Television System, parent company of WACX in Orlando, Florida
Air transport, spaceflight and technology
  • Air Corps Tactical School, the first military professional development school for officers of the United States Army Air Service and United States Army Air Corps.
  • Advanced Crew Transportation System, a proposed joint European/Russian/Japanese manned spaceflight system
Computing, automation, computer networks
  • Automated Coin Toll System, a system used for collecting coins at payphones
Transportation
  • ACTS Nederland BV, railfreight company in the Netherlands
  • ACTS, Abrollcontainer-Transportsystem (german) or Afzet Container Transport Systeem (Dutch) - a type of intermodal road/rail container system designed for operation without the use of cranes or lifting gear

Famous quotes containing the word acts:

    “It is not enough to ask, ‘Will my act harm other people?’ Even if the answer is No, my act may still be wrong, because of its effects on other people. I should ask, ‘Will my act be one of a set of acts that will together harm other people?’ The answer may be Yes. And the harm to others may be great. If this is so, I may be acting very wrongly, like the Harmless Torturers.”
    —Derek Parfit (b. 1943)

    “The demagogue is usually sly, a detractor of others, a professor of humility and disinterestedness, a great stickler for equality as respects all above him, a man who acts in corners, and avoids open and manly expositions of his course, calls blackguards gentlemen, and gentlemen folks, appeals to passions and prejudices rather than to reason, and is in all respects, a man of intrigue and deception, of sly cunning and management.”
    —James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851)

    “A man’s real and deep feelings are surely those which he acts upon when challenged, not those which, mellow-eyed and soft-voiced, he spouts in easy times.”
    —Sarah Patton Boyle, U.S. civil rights activist and author. The Desegregated Heart, part 2, ch. 13 (1962)