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Synonyms for arc

Grammar : Noun
Spell : ahrk
Phonetic Transcription : É‘rk

Définition of arc

Origin :
  • late 14c., originally in reference to the sun's apparent motion in the sky, from Old French arc "bow, arch, vault" (12c.), from Latin arcus "a bow, arch," from PIE root *arku- "bowed, curved" (cf. Gothic arhvazna "arrow," Old English earh, Old Norse ör; also, via notion of "supple, flexible," Greek arkeuthos, Latvian ercis "juniper," Russian rakita, Czech rokyta, Serbo-Croatian rakita "brittle willow"). Electrical sense is from 1821.
  • noun curve
Example sentences :
  • But of the arc which He disclosed no one group of His followers has as yet perceived the whole.
  • Extract from : « The Conquest of Fear » by Basil King
  • Simba indicated the sun, and swept his hand across the arc of the heavens.
  • Extract from : « The Leopard Woman » by Stewart Edward White
  • Had that animal Coupeau gone to the Arc de Triomphe to get his dram?
  • Extract from : « L'Assommoir » by Emile Zola
  • It is, of course, not necessary to use mercury vapor for the arc.
  • Extract from : « The Automobile Storage Battery » by O. A. Witte
  • The night wore on, and the moon crept up into the arc of the sky.
  • Extract from : « The Fiery Totem » by Argyll Saxby
  • An arc light had sprung into being, and—he stopped with a gasp.
  • Extract from : « Mixed Faces » by Roy Norton
  • He redoubled his efforts and increased the arc in which he swung.
  • Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science July 1930 » by Various
  • Do you know that you can make an arc light with two ordinary pencils?
  • Extract from : « Common Science » by Carleton W. Washburne
  • I was moving in an arc in the direction of the distorted square cluster there.
  • Extract from : « Cogito, Ergo Sum » by John Foster West
  • If we arc to save people's souls by the writing of verses, well and good.
  • Extract from : « Silhouettes » by Arthur Symons

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