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Verb
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arcs, plural;
  1. Move with a curving trajectory
    • - the ball arced across the room
  2. Form an electric arc
    • - check that switches operate properly with no sign of arcing
Noun
  1. A part of the circumference of a circle or other curve

  2. A curved shape, or something shaped like a curve
    • - the huge arc of the sky
  3. A curving trajectory
    • - he swung his flashlight in a wide arc
  4. Indicating the inverse of a trigonometrical function

  5. A luminous electrical discharge between two electrodes or other points

  6. (in a novel, play, or movie) The development or resolution of the narrative or principal theme
    • - his transformation provides the emotional arc of the story
  1. discharge: electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field
  2. arch: form an arch or curve; "her back arches"; "her hips curve nicely"
  3. a continuous portion of a circle
  4. bow: something curved in shape
  5. Arc is a composition of feedback, guitar noise, and vocal fragments that was realized from various shows on the 1991 Neil Young and Crazy Horse US tour, which was originally released with Weld in a special-edition 3-CD set called Arc-Weld. ...
  6. Canadian artist-run centres (ARC or ARCs) are a series of galleries and art spaces developed by artists in Canada since the 1960s. "Artist-run centre" is the common term of use for artist-initiated and managed organizations in Canada. ...
  7. The Arc is a number of Bahá'í administrative buildings at the Bahá'í World Centre on Mount Carmel located at Haifa, Israel. ...
  8. The Colombian National Armada (Armada Nacional Colombiana or de Colombia) is the naval armed force of Colombia. It is also known simply as the National Armada (Armada Nacional), or as the Armada of the Republic of Colombia (Armada de la República de Colombia).
  9. An electric arc is an electrical breakdown of a gas which produces an ongoing plasma discharge, resulting from a current flowing through normally nonconductive media such as air. A synonym is arc discharge. The phenomenon was first described by Vasily V. ...
  10. ARC is a lossless data compression and archival format by System Enhancement Associates (SEA). It was very popular during the early days of networked BBS. The file format and the program were both called ARC. ...
  11. (ARCNESS) a large eastern province in Tencendor.
  12. (ARCS) Advanced Review Copies. Not the final book, these are advance and un-finalized copies of the book that are sent to reviewers.
  13. (Arcs) Partial circles used to describe rounded corners of material and show bends in material. Artificial age-hardening process of material accelerated by temperature.
  14. (ARCS) Academic & Research Computing Services, the application programming organization at MIT's IPC
  15. (ARCS) Airline Routing and Connections Service
  16. (ARCS) The grouping of Arctic regions including Alaska, Russia, Canada and Scandinavia invented by Anatoly Karlin, who believes that the opening of the Arctic will turbo-charge their economies.
  17. (ARCS) acronym for Keller's Theory of Motivation (attention, relevance, confidence and satisfaction).
  18. (ARCs) Admiralty Raster Chart System
  19. (Arcs) Lines that begin and end with a node. Intersections of arcs are always connected with a node. Arcs also make up part of a polygon. An example of data that would use this form would be roads.
  20. (Arcs) in a u-dimensional space are sets of points such that every hyperplane contains at most u points of the arc. An arc containing s points is called an s-arc.
  21. A lighting unit that generates illumination from an electrical arc between two carbon electrodes. (Lighting)
  22. In astrology, the curved path of a stellar body and the angular measurement of this path.
  23. a word made from the initial letters of Affinity, Reality and Communication, which together equate to Understanding. It is pronounced by stating its letters, A-R-C. To Scientologists it has come to mean good feeling, love or friendliness, such as, “He was in ARC with his friend. ...
  24. A section of a circle that is measured in degrees or radians.
  25. (in a novel, play, or movie) the development or resolution of the narrative or principal theme.