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Acarnan Acarnan, one of the Epigones, was a son of Alcmaeon and Calirrhoe, and brother of Amphoterus. Their father was murdered by Phegeus, when they were yet very young, and Calirrhoe prayed to Zeus to make her sons grow quickly, that they might be able to avenge the death of their father.
Acarnania Acarnania is a region of west-central Greece that lies along the Ionian Sea, west of Aetolia, with the Achelous River for a boundary, and north of the gulf of Calydon, which is the entrance to the Gulf of Corinth. Today it forms the western part of the prefecture of Aetolia-Acarnania.
Acarsaid Acarsaid or An Acarsaid is a common name in the Scottish Highlands. It means literally "anchorage" or "harbour" in Scottish Gaelic, and comes from the Old Norse akkarsaeti, meaning literally "anchor-seat"
Acas Acas, the employment relations service (previously known as the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service)an independent non-departmental public body] of the [[Government of the United Kingdom. Its purpose is to promote good industrial relations practice and its main activities in doing this are to provide information on employment legislation through its national helpline (08457 47 47 47) and to resolve individual and collective disputes between employers and employees.
Acasta class destroyer The Acasta or K class was a class of destroyers built for the Royal Navy under the Naval Programme of 1911 - 1912 that saw service during World War I. They were the last class of Royal Navy destroyers to have mixed names with no systematic theme (see naming conventions for destroyers of the Royal Navy for more information.
Acastus Kolya Acastus Kolya is a fictional character in the science fiction television show Stargate Atlantis, played by Robert Davi. The character was a Genii military commander, who was introduced in "The Storm" as a ruthless military leader.
Acatalectic An acatalectic line of verse is one having the metrically complete number of syllables in the final foot. The term is arguably of limited significance or utility, at least by comparison to its antonym, catalectic, for the simple reason that acatalexis is considered to be the "usual case" in the large majority of metrical contexts and therefore explicit reference to it proves almost universally superfluous.
Acatalepsy Acatalepsy (from the Greek α̉-, privative, and καταλαμβάνειν, to seize), in philosophy, is incomprehensibleness, or the impossibility of comprehending or conceiving a thing. The Pyrrhonians and Skeptics, and even Plato's Academy asserted an absolute acatalepsia; all human science or knowledge, according to them, went no further than to appearances and verisimilitude.
Acústico Acústico is the eighteenth album of Puerto Rican singer Ednita Nazario and is the first of two albums recorded during a special presentation of her at the Luis A. Ferré Performing Arts Center in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Acámbaro Acámbaro is a city and municipality in the southeastern corner of the state of Guanajuato, Mexico on the banks of the Lerma River, and the oldest of the 46 municipalities of Guanajuato state. Acámbaro is noted as a major railway junction, a local transport hub, and the origin of the nationally famous Acambaro bread.
Acéphale Acéphale (from the Latin a-cephalus, headless or without a chief) designs both a public review created by Georges Bataille (which counted five issues, from 1936 to 1939) and a secret and esoteric society formed by Bataille and some other members whom had sworn to keep silence. Bataille himself maintained close links with the Surrealism movement in Paris.
Acıpayam Acıpayam is a rural district of Denizli Province in high country between the Aegean and Mediterranean regions of Turkey. A plain, watered by two reservoirs, known for growing melons and watermelons, on the road between the city of Denizli and Antalya.
Accademia The Accademia is best known now as a museum gallery of pre-1800s art in Venice. Situated on the south bank of the Grand Canal, it gives its name to one of the three bridges across the canal, the Ponte dell'Accademia, and to the boat landing station for the vaporetto water bus.
Accademia degli Infiammati The Accademia degli Infiammati ("Academy of the Burning Ones") was a short-lived but influential philosophical and literary academy in Padua. It was founded in 1540 by Leone Orsini, and was dissolved somewhere between 1545 and 1550.
Accademia del Cimento The Accademia del Cimento (Academy of Experiment), an early scientific society, was founded in Florence 1657 by students of Galileo, Evangelista Torricelli and Vincenzo Viviani. The foundation of Academy was funded by Prince Leopoldo and Grand Duke Ferdinando II de' Medici.
Accademia della Crusca The Accademia della Crusca is an Italian institution that brings together scholars and experts in Italian linguistics and philology. It was founded in Florence in 1583 by Antonio Francesco Grazzini, and has remained well known for its mission to maintain the "purity" of the original Italian language.
Accademia di Cervo Founded in 1988 by Professor Arnulf von Arnim and his wife Elfe in the attractive Italian seaside resort town of Cervo, this prestigious music academy on the Ligurian Riviera has attracted the finest performers of classical and contemporary music from scores of countries, as diverse as Germany, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, France, USA, Denmark, Alaska, Argentina, Great Britain, Spain, Israel to name but a few.
Accademia di San Luca The Accademia di San Luca, (the "Academy of Saint Luke") was an association of artists in Rome, founded in 1593 with the directorship of Federico Zuccari, with the purpose of elevating the work of "artists" above that of craftsman. Over the first centuries after its inception, Papal patronage and control dominated the institution.
Accademia Musicale Chigiana The Accademia Musicale Chigiana (English: Chigiana Musical Academy) in Siena, Italy was founded by Count Guido Chigi Saracini in 1932 as an international centre for advanced musical studies. It organises Master Classes in the major musical instruments as well as singing, conducting and composition.
Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia The Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia (Italian: National Academy of Santa Cecilia) is one of the oldest musical institutions in the world. It is located in Rome, Italy, and was founded by the papal bull, Ratione congruit, issued by Sixtus V in 1585, which invoked two saints prominent in Western musical history: Gregory the Great, for whom the Gregorian chant is named, and Saint Cecilia, the patron saint of music.
Accasta Accasta is a stacking abstract strategy board game on a hexagonal board for two players. The game was designed by Dieter Stein and published solely over the web and in the German game design magazine Spiel & Autor.
Accelerated aging Accelerated aging is a testing method used to estimate the useful lifespan of a product when actual lifespan data is unavailable. This occurs with products that have not existed long enough to have gone through their useful lifespan: for example, a new type of car engine or a new polymer for replacement joints.
Accelerated aging disease An accelerated aging disease is a genetic disorder in which various tissues, organs or systems of the human body age prematurely. Because the accelerated aging diseases display different aspects of aging, but never every aspect, they are often called segmental progerias by biogerontologists.
Accelerated depreciation Accelerated depreciation refers to allowing a company to depreciate an asset (such as a unit of machinery) at a higher-than-normal rate, thus potentially reducing taxes payable in the years with the greater depreciation. Generally, this is for corporate profit tax, although it may be applied to other taxes in some cases.
Accelerated Evolution Accelerated Evolution was the first album by The Devin Townsend Band, released on March 31, 2003 (see 2003 in music). Thematically, this album is about relationships (which was also the working title) and musically it's more straightforward than Terria, similar to Biomech.
Accelerated Freefall Accelerated Freefall (AFF) (known in Canada as Progressive Freefall) is a method of skydiving training. It has replaced static line progression as the most common method of training skydivers, though static line is still used at many smaller drop zones.
Accelerated Graphics Port The Accelerated Graphics Port (also called Advanced Graphics Port) is a high-speed point-to-point channel for attaching a graphics card to a computer's motherboard, primarily to assist in the acceleration of 3D computer graphics. Some motherboards have been built with multiple independent AGP slots.
Accelerated Math Accelerated Math is a daily, progress-monitoring software tool that monitors and manages mathematics skills practice, from first grade math through calculus. It is primarily used by primary and secondary schools, and it is published by Renaissance Learning, Inc.
Accelerated reference frame In theoretical physics, an accelerated reference frame is usually a coordinate system or frame of reference, that undergoes a constant and continual change in velocity over time as judged from an inertial frame.
Accelerated Reader Accelerated Reader (AR) is a daily progress monitoring software assessment in wide use by primary and secondary schools for monitoring the practice of reading, and it is created by Renaissance Learning, Inc. Currently, there are two versions: a desktop version and a web-based version in Renaissance Place, the company's web software for Accelerated Reader and a number of other software products (e.
Accelerating change In futures studies and the history of technology, accelerating change is a perceived increase in the rate of technological (and sometimes social and cultural) progress throughout history, which some claim suggests faster and more profound change in the future. While many have suggested accelerating change, its popularity in modern times is closely associated with the ideas and writings of Raymond Kurzweil.
Accelerating universe The Accelerating universe is the idea that our universe is undergoing accelerated expansion: distant objects are receding from our galaxy with speeds that increase over time. The accelerating universe is related to the Hubble Law: while the Hubble parameter may be decreasing with time, it is doing so slowly enough that distant objects continue to accelerate away from us.
Acceleration clause An acceleration clause, in the law of contracts, is a term that fully matures the performance due from a party upon a breach of the contract. Such clauses are most prevalent in mortgages and similar contracts to purchase real estate in installments.
Accelerator mass spectrometry Accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) differs from other forms of mass spectrometry in that it accelerates ions to extraordinarily high kinetic energies before mass analysis. AMS is exceptional in its ability to sensitively and accurately analyze elemental and isotopic compositions.
Accelerator table An accelerator table in a computer software application allows the application to specify a table of keyboard shortcuts for menus or other commands. For example, CTRL+S is often used as a shortcut to the FILE SAVE menu item in the FILE menu, CTRL+O is a common shortcut FILE OPEN menu item, etc.
Accelerator Test Facility The Accelerator Test Facility (ATF) is a test accelerator in the KEK laboratory in Tsukuba, Japan. It is a test bed for production of the beam for the proposed International Linear Collider (ILC) linear electron-positron collider.
Acceleron Accelerons are hypothetical subatomic particles postulated at the University of Washington to relate the newfound mass of the neutrino to the dark energy conjectured to be accelerating the expansion of the universe.
Accensi Accensi (from Latin; singular accensus) figure in both the army of the Roman Republic and as civil officers in the same period. Thus, an accensus was either a public officer who attended on several of the Roman magistrates; or a kind of supernumerary soldier who served to fill the places of those who were killed or disabled by their wounds, or otherwise bring up the ranks to strength.
Accent (music) In music, an accent is an emphasis placed on a particular note, either as a result of its context or specifically indicated by an accent mark. A tonic accent is an emphasis on a note by virtue of being higher in pitch than surrounding notes.
Accent kernel Accent was an operating system kernel developed at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). Accent was developed as a follow-on to the Aleph kernel developed at the University of Rochester, fixing several of its problems and re-targeting its hardware support for networks of workstation machines instead of minicomputers.
Accent reduction Accent reduction, also known as accent modification, is a systematic approach to reducing or eliminating a foreign accent. The methodology involves several steps, including changing the way you form your mouth to form vowel and consonant sounds, modifying your intonation and stress patterns, and changing your rhythm.
Accentual verse Accentual verse has a fixed number of stresses per line or stanza regardless of the number of syllables that are present. It is common in languages that are stress-timed such as English as opposed to syllabic verse, which is common in syllable-timed languages such as classical Latin.
Accentual-syllabic verse Accentual-syllabic verse is an extension of accentual verse which fixes both the number of stresses and syllables within a line or stanza. Accentual-syllabic verse is highly regular and therefore easily scannable.
Accept Accept was a German heavy metal band from the town of Solingen, originally assembled in the early 1970s by Udo Dirkschneider. The band has played an important role in the development of speed metal and European power metal.
Acceptable daily intake Acceptable Daily Intake or - ADI is a measure of the amount a specific substance (usually a food additive, or a residue of a veterinary drug or pesticide) in food or drinking water that can be ingested (orally) over a lifetime without an appreciable health risk. ADIs are expressed by body mass, usually in milligrams (of the substance) per kilograms of body mass per day.
Acceptable use policy An acceptable use policy (AUP; also sometimes acceptable usage policy) is a set of rules applied by many transit networks which restrict the ways in which the network may be used. A well known example is NSFNet which does not allow commercial use.
Acceptance Acceptance, in spirituality, mindfulness, and human psychology, usually refers to the experience of a situation without an intention to change that situation. Acceptance does not require that change is possible or even conceivable, nor does it require that the situation be desired or approved by those accepting it.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, ACT (pronounced "act" not "ay see tee"), is an empirically based psychological intervention that uses acceptance and mindfulness strategies, together with commitment and behavior change strategies, to increase psychological flexibility.
Acceptance testing In engineering and its various subdisciplines, acceptance testing is performed by the customer on a system prior to the customer accepting delivery or accepting transfer of ownership of that system. For systems, it is performed exclusively through black-box testing.
Acceptilatio In Ancient Roman civil law, acceptilatio is defined to be a release by mutual interrogation between debtor and creditor, by which each party is exonerated from the same contract. In other words, acceptilatio is the form of words by which a creditor releases his debtor from a debt or obligation, and acknowledges he has received that which in fact he has not received (veluti imaginaria solutio).
Accepting house An accepting house is a primarily British institution which specializes in the acceptance and guarantee of bills of exchange thereby facilitating the lending of money. They now have taken on other functions as the use of bills has declined, returning to their original wider function of merchant banking.
Acceptor (accounting) In accounting, the acceptor, also known as the drawee, is the addressee of a bill of exchange. The acceptor is the person primarily responsible for the payment of the amount mentioned in the bill to the drawer of it on the date of its maturity.
Access (credit card) Access was a credit card introduced in 1972 in Great Britain by four major banks, NatWest, Midland, Lloyds Bank & The Royal Bank of Scotland as a rival to the established Barclaycard. It was also issued in both Northern Ireland and the Republic, by banks including Ulster Bank, a NatWest subsidiary, and Bank of Ireland, a public limited company unconnected to the founder banks.
Access 31 Access 31 is a free-to-air community television station based in Perth, Australia broadcasting on UHF 31 from the ABC's television mast at Bickley in the Perth Hills. It is also available at certain times on Westlink, which is broadcast on transmitters in Albany and Bunbury, and via Optus Aurora throughout Australia.
Access 5 Access 5 is a national project sponsored by NASA and industry with participation by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and United States Department of Defense (DoD) to introduce high altitude long endurance (HALE) remotely operated aircraft (ROA) for routine flights in the National Airspace System (NAS). Access 5 commenced in May 2004 and is slated to run for five years.
Access Air Access Air was an airline that provided service to cities such as Los Angeles, California and Peoria, Illinois from its hub in Des Moines, Iowa from 1998 to 2001. Other cities included Colorado Springs, Colorado and they even received several slots to New York Laguardia.
Access All Areas: Remixed & B-Side Access All Areas: Remixed & B-Side is a special CD+DVD album by Atomic Kitten and consists of new tracks, remixes, B-sides and a DVD containing their Greatest Hits Live at Wembley Arena and all their music videos (also included the original version of 'Whole Again' and 'Cradle') which covering their musical career from 2001 until 2005.
Access control list In computer security, an access control list (ACL) is a list of permissions attached to an object. The list specifies who or what is allowed to access the object and what operations are allowed to be performed on the object.
Access Communications (Nova Scotia) Access Communications was a major Canadian cable television provider, particularly in parts of Nova Scotia, until its acquisition by Shaw Communications in 1999. Shaw later sold the systems to EastLink in 2001 as it focused on its systems in western Canada.
Access Computer Access Computer was the name of a United States computer company and also a luggable computer they sold in 1982. The name of the computer was shortly changed to Actrix DS because of copyright issues, and the company was renamed "Actrix".
Access Control Matrix Access Control Matrix or Access Matrix is an abstract, formal security model used in computer systems, that characterizes the rights of each subject with respect to every object in the system. It was first introduced by Butler W.
Access Copyright Access © or Access Copyright is the name of the Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency (formerly Cancopy). This is a non-profit copyright collective that collects revenues from licensed Canadian businesses, government, schools, libraries and other copyright users for the photocopying of print works and distributes those monies to the rightsholders of those works, such as publishers and authors from Canada and around the world.
Access Denied: Dilbert's Quest for Love in the Nineties Access Denied: Dilbert's Quest for Love in the Nineties is a small collection of strips mainly around Dilbert's tries at finding a mate. The book is 15 pages long and mainly center around Dilbert's date with Liz.
Access for Afghan Women Act The Access for Afghan Women Act of 2003 is a bill introduced in the United States House of Representatives by Representatives Carolyn Maloney (Democrat, New York) and Dana Rohrabacher (Republican, California). The bill was submitted on March 27, 2003 to the House of Representatives and was immediately referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
Access Grid Access Grid is a collection of resources and technologies that enables large format audio and video based collaboration between groups of people in different locations. The Access Grid is an ensemble of resources, including multimedia large-format displays, presentation and interactive environments, and interfaces with Grid computing middleware and Visualization environments.
Access Integrated Technologies Access Integrated Technologies is a large company concerned in, amongst other things, motion pictures. It bought all of Boeing's digital cinema equipment assets, intellectual property licenses, and existing theatre contracts.
Access keys An access key allows a computer user to immediately jump to a specific part of a web page via the keyboard. In most web browsers, the user does this by pressing ALT (PC) or CTRL (Mac) followed by the appropriate character on the keyboard.
Access link The Access Link Paratransit System is a coordinated, advanced reservation, curb-to-curb, service for pre-certified, passengers with disabilities. The service is designed specifically to meet the requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and will generally serve locations which fall within a pre-determined three quarter (3/4) mile "shadow" surrounding selected NJ TRANSIT local fixed bus routes.
Access Linux Platform The Access Linux Platform is a next-generation version of the Palm OS, with application compatibility layers for Java, classic Palm OS, GTK+, and GNU/Linux shell applications. The ALP has been featured in a phone at the 3GSM conference, but is not yet supported by the hardware manufacturer Palm Inc.
Access management Access management is the regulation of interchanges, intersections, driveways and median openings to a roadway. Its objectives are to enable access to land uses while maintaining roadway safety and mobility through controlling access location, design, spacing and operation.
Access Media Network Access Media Network (AMN) is a business automation and technology organization unifying speech, music, audio, images and movies with two-way communications. The core definition of the AMN, founded by Dale Burleigh Schalow in 1992, was a premise for consumer-based music access, originally called Accessible Music Network.
Access network An access network is that part of a communications network which connects subscribers to their immediate service provider. It is contrasted with the core network, for example the Network Switching Subsystem in GSM.
Access point base station An Access Point Base Station - sometimes called a 'femtocell', is a scalable, multi-channel, two-way communication device extending a typical base station by incorporating all of the major components of the telecommunications infrastructure. A typical example is a UMTS access point base station containing a Node-B, RNC and SGN with only an Ethernet (or ATM/TDM) connection to the Internet or Intranet.
Access to Abortion Services Act The Access to Abortion Services Act is a law in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Enacted in September 1995, it protects access to abortion services by limiting demonstrations outside of abortion clinics, doctor's offices, and doctor's homes.
Access to Information Act Access to Information Act 1983 or Information Act is a Canadian act providing the right of access to information under the control of a government institution is within the accordance of the principles that government information should be available to the public, but with necessary exceptions to the right of access should be limited and specific. Decisions on the disclosure of any government information should always be reviewed independently of government.
Access to Insight Access to Insight is a popular Theravada Buddhist website providing access to a huge collection of translated texts from the Tipitaka, as well as contemporary materials published by the Buddhist Publication Society and many teachers from the Thai Forest Tradition.
Access to knowledge The Access to Knowledge movement (also known as A2K) is a loose collection of civil society groups, governments, and individuals who seek to link access to knowledge to fundamental principles of justice, freedom, and economic development.
Access Television Network Access Television Network (ATN) is a company based in Irvine, California which distributes infomercials and other paid programming through about 300 cable television systems airing in more than 35 million households. ATN's around-the-clock digital satellite feeds are generally broadcast by cable systems on existing channels during the early morning hours when no regular programming is scheduled.
Access Virus The Access Virus is a German made virtual analog synthesizer which was first produced in 1997 and has since been upgraded frequently, with the company releasing new models about every two years. The latest of these are the Access Virus TI and Polar models, both of which were released in November 2005.
Access Yea Community Education Access Yea Community Education (AYCE) is a program run by Yea High School in Yea, Victoria, Australia. The school helps smaller community schools to reach the expected standard of education through extra funding and providing teachers.
Accessibility Accessibility is a general term used to describe the degree to which a system is usable by as many people as possible. In other words, it is the degree of ease with which it is possible to reach a certain location from other locations.
Accessibility relation Accessibility relation is a binary relation R between possible worlds which has very powerful uses in both the formal/theoretical aspects of modal logic as well as in its applications to things like epistemology, metaphysics, and value theory.
Accessible Contemporary Music Accessible Contemporary Music (ACM) is a Chicago-based ensemble dedicated to bringing contemporary classical music to new audiences. By performing in non-traditional venues like Jazz clubs, theatres, churches and schools and by collaborating with artists in other disciplines they have brought new music to a wide variety of people.
Accessible information AiDA (Accessible Information on Development Activities) is the largest online directory of official development aid activities. It offers a quick overview of who is doing what in international development, where they are doing it, and with what funds.
Accessio In Ancient Roman property law, accessio is a term which signifies that two things are united in such a way that one is considered to become a component part of the other; one thing is considered the principal, and the other is considered to be an accession or addition to it. Sometimes it may be doubtful which is to be considered the principal thing and which the accession.
Accession Accession (from Lat. accedere, to go to, to approach), in law, a method of acquiring property adopted from Roman law (see: accessio), by which, in things that have a close connection with or dependence on one another, the property of the principal draws after it the property of the accessory, according to the principle, accessio cedet principali.
Accession Day Accession Day is the anniversary of the day a monarch succeeds to the throne upon the death of the previous monarch. It was inuagurated during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, and first observed as day of national celebration on November 17th, 1570.
Accession number (bioinformatics) An accession number in bioinformatics is a unique identifier given to a DNA or protein sequence record to allow for tracking of different versions of that sequence record and the associated sequence over time in a single data repository. Because of its relative stability, accession numbers can be utilized as foreign keys for referring to a sequence object, but not necessarily to a unique sequence.
Accession number (library science) The term accession number is used to describe the sequential number given to each new book, magazine subscription, or recording as it is entered in the catalog of a library. If an item is removed from the collection, its number is usually not reused for new items.
Accession of the Republic of Macedonia to the European Union The membership of the Republic of Macedonia in the European Union is the highest strategic interest and priority for the Republic of Macedonia, referred to by the European Union (EU) as the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), shared by the majority of its citizens and all the relevant political agents. The motto of Republic of Macedonia in its path towards the EU is "The Sun, too, is a star".
Accession of Turkey to the European Union Turkey's formal application to join the European Community—the organisation that has since developed into the European Union—was made on 1987-04-14. Turkey has been a European Union (then the EEC) Associate Member since 1964.
Accessory (legal term) An accessory is a person who assists in the commission of a crime, but does not actually participate in the commission of the crime as a joint principal. The distinction between an accessory and a principal is a question of fact and degree:
Accessory navicular bone An accessory navicular bone is a bone of the foot that occasionally develops abnormally in front of the ankle towards the inside of the foot. This bone is present in approximately 10% of the general population and is usually asymptomatic.
Accessory process Of the tubercles noticed in connection with the transverse processes of the lower thoracic vertebrae, the inferior is situated at the back part of the base of the transverse process, and is called the accessory process.
Accessory Transit Company The Accessory Transit Company was a company set up by Cornelius Vanderbilt and others during the California Gold Rush in the 1850s, to transport would-be prospectors from the east coast of the United States to the west coast.
AcciĂł Ciutadana de PremiĂ  de Dalt AcciĂł Ciutadana de PremiĂ  de Dalt (Catalan, "Citizens Action of PremiĂ  de Dalt") is a local political formation in PremiĂ  de Dalt, province of Barcelona, Spain. The group is led by Ernest Freixas.
Accident An accident is an unfortunate event which occurs unexpectedly and unintentionally. Physical examples include unintended collisions or falls, being injured by touching something sharp, hot, or electric, or ingesting poison.
Accident (fallacy) The logical fallacy of accident, also called destroying the exception or a dicto simpliciter ad dictum secundum quid, is a deductive fallacy occurring in statistical syllogisms (an argument based on a generalization) when an exception to the generalization is ignored. It is one of the thirteen fallacies originally identified by Aristotle.
Accident (film) Accident is a 1967 dramatic film based on a novel by Nicholas Mosley and directed by Joseph Losey with a script by Harold Pinter. It is the second writer/director collaboration of Pinter and Losey, preceded by The Servant and followed by The Go-Between.
Accident Compensation Corporation The Accident Compensation Corporation (Te Kaporeihana Āwhina Hunga Whara, ACC) is a New Zealand Crown Entity responsible for administering the Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Compensation Act ; which supports citizens, residents, and temporary visitors who have suffered accidental injuries. ACC is the sole (and compulsory) provider of accident insurance for all work and non-work injuries.

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