Arcs Defined
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noun, plural of arc
[Middle English ark, from Old French arc, from Latin arcus.]
- anything bow-shaped. a curve. something arched or curved. a curved path. a continuous progression or line of development.
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Architecture.
- another term for arch, a bowed or curved structure capable of spanning a space while supporting significant weight (e.g. a doorway in a stone wall), or a free-standing structure, such as a triumphal arch.
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Astronomy.
- the part of a circle representing the apparent path described above and below the horizon by a celestial heavenly body.
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Computing.
- a connection between two network nodes.
- an edge in a tree (a tree is a data structure in computer programs).
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Electricity & Engineering.
- a luminous bridge formed in a gap between two electrodes.
- an electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
- arc lamp, a device that produces light by an electric arc.
- electric arc or voltaic arc, an ongoing plasma discharge (an electric current through a gas), producing light and heat.
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Geology.
- volcanic arc or island arc, a chain of volcanic mountains or islands formed by plate tectonics.
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Geometry.
- any unbroken part of the circumference of a circle or other curved line; a continuous portion of a circle.
- a degree measurement on the circumference of a circle.
- a segment of a differentiable curve.
- in projective geometry, a particular type of set of points of a projective plane.
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Graph Theory.
- a directed edge of a graph.
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Internet.
- A crosslink between two websites.
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Literature.
- story arc, an extended or continuing storyline.
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Methematics.
- a segment of a circle.
- a degree measurement on the circumference of a circle.
- a continuous mapping from the real interval.
- an ordered string of vertices (x,y coordinate pairs) that begin at one location and end at another. connecting the arc's vertices creates a line. the vertices at each endpoint of an arc are called nodes.
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Transportation Systems.
- in a multimodal network, a travel arc is a connection of two nodes in the same mode, while a transfer arc is a representation of transfer between two nodes in different modes.
Sources: dictionary.com; wikipedia.org; merriam-webster.com
