Arc \Arc\, n. [F. arc, L. arcus bow, arc. See {Arch}, 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. --Milton.
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}.
Arc \Arc\ ([aum]rk), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Arcked} ([aum]rkt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Arcking}.] (Elec.) To form a voltaic arc, as an electrical current in a broken or disconnected circuit. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
THE PLAYER ran a few paces along the gravel and flicked his boule through the air in a fierce arc.
"They're squandering money," said Paul Sadler, 65, who bicycled up shortly after the arc was turned on.
The most memorable is a huge, slow arc that each dancer traces with one arm, in which the whole upper body opens and expands; and this is contrasted with a sharp lift of the heels while the dancers close their flexed arms before their faces.
Cape Verde, Morocco, Portugal and Spain turned away the Khark 5, which made an arc Saturday around the Canaries before heading south across open seas.
Yet the "yield curve," the arc that represents interest rates from short- to long-maturity securities, is exceptionally steep, making it even more desirable to keep funding on the short side.
Other improvements in the program will involve the Lorain works' No. 3 seamless pipe mill, a steelmaking ladle arc furnace and Lorain's No. 4 blast furnace.
These are then turned into liquid steel in an electric arc furnace. But CRU says the high cost of energy and scrap reduce the potential competitiveness of the mini-mill in Western Europe and Japan.
After nearly 24 hours of heavy combat, the rebels had entrenched themselves in neighborhoods along a wide arc on the northern fringe of San Salvador.
In 1911, to test the concept that gravity and acceleration are equivalent, Einstein stuck his neck out: He predicted that starlight grazing the sun's surface would be curved by 0.83 seconds of arc by solar gravity.
The action occurs in a single day: delectably and simply shown by a portable yellow sun, which is moved from dawn to dusk in a huge arc.
Rescue teams working under arc lights used heavy lifting equipment and hydraulic jacks through the early morning hours Tuesday searching the mangled debris for more trapped victims.
How that happened intrigues other Western states in the arc of resource lands stretching from the Great Plains to the Rockies and down to the deserts.
Now we've managed to convince more top restaurants to take local wines, and they've been pleased with their choice,' he says. Like much in Liguria, the wine-growing region forms two sides of an arc with Genoa at its head.
The eclipse will be total in an arc about 125 miles wide from the northern Baltic Sea and southeast Finland, across the Kola Peninsula and northeast Soviet Union, to the Aleutian Islands near Alaska.
The Antilles now consists of five islands, scattered in a lazy arc from the coast of Venezuela toward Puerto Rico.
Hurricane warnings were issued for the Leeward Islands along an arc from the French and Dutch island of St. Martin-St.
William C. Coleman will always be known for the little arc lamp, which he introduced in 1903 to light rural homes without electricity.
CBS was set to start running repeats of the Sonny Steelgrave "arc," as the show's producers call each storyline, but pulled the episodes to await a decision on whether the show will be renewed.
Mr. Terrile and his colleagues haven't yet conceded, and busily plot the arc, showing it inexplicably clumpy in one part, gossamer thin in another.
The mini-mills start not with ore but scrap metal, which they simply liquefy in an electric arc furnace. All these factors have given the minis large cost advantages in low- grade steel markets.
Toxic dust from electric arc steel furnaces' emission control equipment, for instance, would be mixed with a cement-like compound that would bind it tightly.