arc

Etymology

From Middle English [Term?], borrowed from Old French arc, from Latin arcus (“a bow, arc, arch”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɑːk/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɑɹk/

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)k
• Homophone: ark

A geometric arc, upper right.

An electric arc between two nails.

Noun

arc (plural arcs)

1. (astronomy) That part of a circle which a heavenly body appears to pass through as it moves above and below the horizon. [from 14th c.]
2. (geometry) A continuous part of the circumference of a circle (circular arc) or of another curve. [from 16th c.]
3. A curve, in general. [from 17th c.]
4. A band contained within parallel curves, or something of that shape. [from 17th c.]
5. (electrics) A flow of current across an insulating medium; especially a hot, luminous discharge between either two electrodes or as lightning. [from 19th c.]
6. A story arc. [from 20th c.]
7. (mathematics) A continuous mapping from a real interval (typically [0, 1]) into a space.
8. (graph theory) A directed edge.
9. (basketball, slang) The three-point line.

Verb

arc (third-person singular simple present arcs, present participle arcing or arcking or arking, simple past and past participle arced or arcked or arked)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To move following a curved path.
   • 2008, T. R. Elmore, Blood Ties Series, Volume 1, Tainted, Book 1 (page 106)

     A warring bloodhunter detected it and skillfully arced his sword through its spinal column before it could return to follow through with its attack.

   • 2011 February 4, Gareth Roberts, “Wales 19-26 England”, in BBC‎:

     Gatland's side got back to within striking distance when fly-half Jones's clever pass sent centre Jonathan Davies arcing round Shontayne Hape.

2. (transitive) To shape into an arc; to hold in the form of an arc.
   • 1953, James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain, New York: Knopf, Part One,

     His mother, her eyes raised to heaven, hands arked before her, moving, made real for John that patience, that endurance, that long suffering, which he had read in the Bible and found so hard to image.

3. (intransitive) To form an electrical arc.

External links

• arc in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• arc in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• arc at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• CAR, Car, RAC, RCA, acr-, car, rac-

Etymology

From Old Occitan arc, from Latin arcus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷo-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aɾk/

Noun

arc m (plural arcs)

1. bow (weapon)
2. (music) bow (used to play string instruments)
3. (geometry) arc
4. (architecture) arch

Etymology

From Old French arc, from Latin arcus (“bow, arch”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷo-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aʁk/

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Noun

arc m (plural arcs)

1. bow (weapon)
2. arc (curve)
3. (geometry) arc, circular arc, circle segment
4. (architecture) arch

Anagrams

• car

External links

• “arc” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Etymology

From Latin arcus.

Noun

arc m (plural arcs)

1. bow (weapon)
2. (architecture) arch

Etymology

The original form of the word was orca.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɒrt͡s]

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Noun

arc (plural arcok)

1. face

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aɾˠk/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish orc, arc (“piglet”).

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman arc, from Latin arcus (“a bow, arc, arch”).

Etymology 3

Declension

Mutation

Further reading

• "arc" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• “1 orc (‘young pig’)” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Etymology

From Latin arcus.

Noun

arc m (oblique plural ars, nominative singular ars, nominative plural arc)

1. bow (weapon made of a curved piece of wood or other flexible material whose ends are connected by a string)
2. (architecture) arch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ark/

Adjective

arc

1. Alternative form of arg

References

• Joseph Wright, An Old High German Primer

Etymology

From Latin arcus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷo-.

Noun

arc n (plural arcuri)

1. bow (a weapon)
2. (architecture) arch

Noun

arc n (plural arce)

1. (geometry) arc

Noun

arc f

1. Bee (apoidea).^[1]
2. Wasp (vespidae).^[1]
3. Impost, tax.^[1]
4. "Femen."(sic)^[1]

References