Definitions for ARC

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ARC arc

Spelling: [ahrk]

IPA: /ɑrk/

Arc is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 13 anagrams from letters in ARC (acr).

Definitions for ARC

noun

1. Geometry. any unbroken part of the circumference of a circle or other curved line.
2. Also called electric arc. Electricity. a luminous bridge formed in a gap between two electrodes. Compare spark1 (def 2).
3. Astronomy. the part of a circle representing the apparent course of a heavenly body.
4. anything bow-shaped.
5. Pathology. AIDS-related complex.
6. Jeanne [zhahn] /ʒɑn/ (Show IPA), Joan of Arc.

verb (used without object)

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

Origin of ARC

1350-1400; Middle English ark Latin arcus bow, arch, curve

Examples for ARC

It is, of course, not necessary to use mercury vapor for the arc.

At this point in the arc, he doubts what Hershel is telling him.

Had that animal Coupeau gone to the arc de Triomphe to get his dram?

The night wore on, and the moon crept up into the arc of the sky.

So the plan is for Ken to draw an arc with Dale doing covers, and then Dale does an arc with Ken doing covers.

But of the arc which He disclosed no one group of His followers has as yet perceived the whole.

How much did you know about your arc and all its twists before shooting?

A Molotov cocktail tumbled in an arc overhead and erupted briefly in a blaze.

And the scene had such a huge beginning, middle, and end, and such an arc.

Simba indicated the sun, and swept his hand across the arc of the heavens.