Definitions for ARCS

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ARCS arc

Spelling: [ahrk]

IPA: /ɑrk/

Arcs is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 37 anagrams from letters in ARCS (acrs).

Definitions for ARCS

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.

verb (used without object)

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

Origin of ARCS

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

Examples for ARCS

Again and again the cold scene was lighted up by the arcs of the aurora.

To the author the arcs appear distorted from those of true circles.

Those episodes were great but they lacked some of the great things that happen when you let arcs grow.

arcs of circles are then drawn to touch these three circles.

That contained under three arcs of great circles of a sphere.

Secondly, "an ellipse or oval" is composed of four arcs of circles.

These arcs have been made of both the open and enclosed type.

They are made in sets of arcs of concentric circles (see fig. 80, A).

From these arcs most of the light is emitted by the arc itself, hence the name "flame-arcs."

But at the Ends of the arcs they retain'd their Order unchanged.