Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Something shaped like a curve or arch.
- noun Mathematics A segment of a circle.
- noun An electric arc.
- noun Astronomy The apparent path of a celestial body as it rises above and falls below the horizon.
- noun A progression of events suggesting narrative cohesion, especially one that rises to a climax and settles to a final conclusion.
- intransitive verb To form an arc.
- intransitive verb To move or seem to move in a curved path.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In geometry, any part of a curved line, as of a circle, especially one which does not include a point of inflection or cusp.
- noun In astronomy, a part of a circle traversed by the sun or other heavenly body; especially, the part passed over by a star between its rising and setting.
- noun In architecture, an arch.
- noun Obsolete form of
ark . - noun An abbreviation of
Associate of the Royal College of Organists .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Geom.) A portion of a curved line.
- noun A curvature in the shape of a circular arc or an arch
- noun obsolete An arch.
- noun The apparent arc described, above or below the horizon, by the sun or other celestial body. The
diurnal arc is described during the daytime, thenocturnal arc during the night. - noun See under
Voltaic . - intransitive verb (Elec.) To form a voltaic arc, as an electrical current in a broken or disconnected circuit.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun graph theory A
directed edge . - verb intransitive To move following a curved path.
- verb intransitive To form an electrical arc.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun something curved in shape
- verb form an arch or curve
- noun a continuous portion of a circle
- noun electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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The main arc is a murder mystery around an original Melrose character, Laura Leighton's Sydney Andrews.
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Most of the arc is there, buried or only mentioned or simply still in my head instead of on the page.
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Layering in Depth of Character 2010
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The peak of the arc is the revelation, where the character experiences the most significant transformation.
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On viewing from the opposite edge of the lentil, forming the division of the two great scaly plates, a sac or canal, k. proceeding from the posterior part of the lentil, there is distinctly visible the body u, which we call the arc; where there are five transverse hairy bands of a yellow colour, while the rest is white.
New observations on the natural history of bees Fran��ois Huber 1790
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Tying it into The Avengers arc is probably the only reason I'd watch it. blog comments powered by Disqus
Possible Synopsis for The First Avenger: Captain America Sounds a Lot Like…Captain America | /Film 2010
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Their political arc is now in descent, and their leaders are distancing themselves.
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Anon: The next story arc is called "Family Reunion".
Doing the Hokey Kokey Roger Langridge 2010
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The first 5 seasons were top notch, had they ended off then 24 would have gone out on top. (6-8 have been terrible, but I agree with you that Anil Kapoors arc is pretty interesting)
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ARC stands for Advance Reading Copy, and galley is a cooler term that contains history: printers used to place type into metal trays and run off a few copies that would then be proofed by editors.
reesetee commented on the word arc
In bookselling: Advanced Reading Copy.
August 22, 2008
gulyasrobi commented on the word arc
"arc" in Hungarian means: face
August 1, 2012