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Arc   /ɑrk/   Listen
noun
Arc  n.  
1.
(Geom.) A portion of a curved line; as, the arc of a circle or of an ellipse.
2.
A curvature in the shape of a circular arc or an arch; as, the colored arc (the rainbow); the arc of Hadley's quadrant.
3.
An arch. (Obs.) "Statues and trophies, and triumphal arcs."
4.
The apparent arc described, above or below the horizon, by the sun or other celestial body. The diurnal arc is described during the daytime, the nocturnal arc during the night.
Electric arc, Voltaic arc. See under Voltaic.



verb
Arc  v. i.  (past & past part. arcked; pres. part. arcking)  (Elec.) To form a voltaic arc, as an electrical current in a broken or disconnected circuit.






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... at Rouen the day before yesterday about six, and the hotel we stopped at was quite decent, and although the windows of my room looked upon the inner courtyard they at least had shutters. I wanted to go and see the marks the flames of Joan of Arc's burning had made on the wall, but every one was so hungry, we had to have dinner so early, there wasn't time. Canard a la Rouennaise is good, it is done here with a wine called Grenache. I had two helpings, and just as we were finishing, the Vicomte and "Antoine" came in ...
— The Visits of Elizabeth • Elinor Glyn

... those moments, had felt, thought, concluded with lightning swiftness. Her soul swept through a great arc of intuition. ...
— The False Chevalier - or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette • William Douw Lighthall

... the objects which the builders had in view when they raised such magnificent constructions. One holds that the Great Pyramid, at any rate, was built to embody cosmic discoveries, as the exact length of the earth's diameter and circumference, the length of an arc of the meridian, and the true unit of measure. Another believes the great work of Khufu to have been an observatory, and the ventilating passages to have been designed for "telescopes," through which observations were to be made upon the ...
— Ancient Egypt • George Rawlinson

... delightful street, as it went on its winding way, led not to Bedford Square or the new University College Hospital, but to Paris through the Arc de Triomphe at one end, and to the river Seine at the other; or else, turning to the right, to St. Cloud through the Bois de Boulogne of Louis Philippe Premier, Roi des Francais—as different from the Paris and the Bois de Boulogne of to-day as a ...
— Peter Ibbetson • George du Marier et al

... to rents.—2. Be it further enacted, That the said chiefs, or a majority of them, be, and they arc hereby authorised to make such alterations, by covenant and agreement, respecting the payment and receipt of any rents due, or that may become due on any of the existing leases, as the commissioners appointed ...
— Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians • Elias Johnson


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