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arc::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | discharge, electric arc, electric discharge, spark |
| Type of | electrical conduction |
| Has types | brush discharge, corona, corona discharge, corposant, electric glow, flashover, saint elmo's fire, saint elmo's light, saint ulmo's fire, saint ulmo's light, st. elmo's fire |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | bow |
| Type of | curved shape, curve |
| Has types | rainbow |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | curve, curved shape |
| Has types | limb |
| Derivation | arcuate |
Examples of arc
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The Rams shot well from outside the 3-point arc, connecting on five of 12 shots.
From the stltoday.com
The Tigers connected on eight shots from beyond the arc in the first half alone.
From the stltoday.com
Trico shot well from outside the 3-point arc, connecting on five of eight shots.
From the stltoday.com
For the game, Butler made only three of 31 attempts from inside the 3-point arc.
From the chron.com
Florida made eight of its first 12 shots from behind the arc in the second half.
From the kentucky.com
Carey Johnson rushed for 127 yards and Michael Dutra ran for two ARC touchdowns.
From the sacbee.com
Georgetown is shooting just 30.1 percent from beyond the arc in conference play.
From the washingtonpost.com
He hadn't made much of anything before stepping behind the 3-point arc, however.
From the dailynews.com
Three of the four are shooting 40 percent or better from behind the 3-point arc.
From the post-gazette.com
- Discharge: electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field
- Arch: form an arch or curve; "her back arches"; "her hips curve nicely"
- A continuous portion of a circle
- Bow: something curved in shape
- Arc is a composition of feedback, guitar noise, and vocal fragments that was realized from various shows on the 1991 Neil Young and Crazy Horse US tour, which was originally released with Weld in a special-edition 3-CD set called Arc-Weld. ...
- Canadian artist-run centres (ARC or ARCs) are a series of galleries and art spaces developed by artists in Canada since the 1960s. "Artist-run centre" is the common term of use for artist-initiated and managed organizations in Canada. ...
- An electric arc is an electrical breakdown of a gas which produces an ongoing plasma discharge, resulting from a current flowing through normally nonconductive media such as air. A synonym is arc discharge. The phenomenon was first described by Vasily V. ...
- ARC is a lossless data compression and archival format by System Enhancement Associates (SEA). It was very popular during the early days of networked BBS. The file format and the program were both called ARC. ...
- (ARCNESS) a large eastern province in Tencendor.
