Noun: arc
Sample Sentences
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The arc of a circle may be very little, but, given that, it is possible to construct the entire figure. [1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados:]
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Swing it from side to side in a high arc overhead.
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an arc of pupils around their teacher.
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For while most comics have designated entry points into the story in the form of arcs, Homestuck is one elaborate, self-referencing inside joke collapsed inside its own funhouse mirror reflection. [2015 February 24, Lilian Min, “How the Internet Invented a New Kind of Storytelling”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 29 Apr 2015:]
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I'm hitting the gym three times a week or more at the moment. I'm in my gym bro arc.
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I miss my drawing arc. I feel like I was much more creative back then.
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For all practical purposes the old carbon arcs, which were the backbone of film lighting, are no longer used. [2012, Kris Malkiewicz, Film Lighting:]
Nouns inflected like arc
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷ-
3. Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷos
4. Proto-Italic *arkuos
5. Latin arcus
6. Old French arcbor.
7. Middle English ark
8. English arc
9. Inherited from Middle English ark, from Old French arc, from Latin arcus (“a bow, arc, arch”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷos (“bow, arrow”). Doublet of arch, arco, and arrow. See: Middle English Nouns '
ark', Middle English Nouns '
ark', Latin Nouns '
arcus'.