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ARC

UK:^*^*UK and possibly other pronunciationsUK and possibly other pronunciations'ARC': /ˌeɪɑːˈsiː/; 'arc': /'ɑːk/US:USA pronunciation: IPA and respellingUSA pronunciation: IPA/ɑrk/ ,USA pronunciation: respelling(ärk)

Inflections of 'arc' (v): (⇒ conjugate)

arcs: v 3rd person singular

arcing: v pres p

arcking: v pres p (Rare)

arced: v past

arcked: v past (Rare)

arced: v past p

arcked: v past p (Rare)

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::

ARC abbreviation for

AIDS-related complex: an early condition in which a person infected with the AIDS virus may suffer from such mild symptoms as loss of weight, fever, etc

arc /ɑrk/USA pronunciation n.

[countable]

Mathematicsany unbroken part of the circumference of a circle:an arc of twenty degrees.
something curved or arched like a bow.
Electricitythe light formed in a gap between two electrodes when electricity flows through them:the arc of the light bulb.

v. [no object]

Electricityto form an electric arc:The current arced across the electrodes.
to move in a curved line:The ball arced through the air.

ARC or A.R.C., an abbreviation of:

American Red Cross.

arc (ärk),USA pronunciation n., v., arced (ärkt)USA pronunciation or arcked, arc•ing

(är′king)USA pronunciation

or arck•ing.

Mathematics[Geom.]any unbroken part of the circumference of a circle or other curved line.
ElectricityAlso called electric arc. a luminous bridge formed in a gap between two electrodes. Cf. spark¹ (def. 2).
Astronomythe part of a circle representing the apparent course of a heavenly body.
anything bow-shaped.

v.i.

Electricityto form an electric arc.
to move in a curve suggestive of an arc.

Latin arcus bow, arch, curve
Middle English ark 1350–1400

ARC (ärk),USA pronunciation

Pathology, n. See AIDS-related complex.

ARC,

American Red Cross.

Also, A.R.C.

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::

arc /ɑːk/ n

something curved in shape
part of an unbroken curved line
the manner in which a situation, story, etc develops over a period of time
a luminous discharge that occurs when an electric current flows between two electrodes or any other two surfaces separated by a small gap and a high potential difference
a section of a curve, graph, or geometric figure

vb (arcs, arcing, arced, arcs, arcking, arcked)

(intransitive) to form an arc

prefix

specifying an inverse trigonometric function: usually written arcsin, arctan, arcsec, etc, or sometimes sin^–1, tan^–1, sec^–1, etc

Etymology: 14th Century: from Old French, from Latin arcus bow, arch

'ARC' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):

AIDS-related complex - Arc de Triomphe - arc light - arc welding - arch - arcuate - ark - carbon - carbon arc - Champs-Elysées - Charles VII - chip - discharge - Domrémy-la-Pucelle - Dunois - electrode - fogbow - foil - follow through - Honegger - ignitron - Jeanne d'Arc - Joan of Arc - klieg light - limb - line - lob - Maid of Orléans - minute - North America - octant - Orléans - parkade - parsec - Pechora - Péguy - pitch - praseodymium - precession of the equinoxes - quadrant - radian - Rais - reflex - reflex arc - right angle - Romania - Rouen - samarium - amplitude - anthelic arc

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Synonyms: arch, curve, segment of a circle, more...

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