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arc (AHRK)
A curved line, arch, crescent, bow: "The rainbow formed a beautiful arc in the sky."
Both arc and arch come from the Latin element arcus, "bow". Archery and archer also come from this same Latin element.
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arc (AHRK) (noun)
A curved line, arch, crescent, bow: The rainbow formed a beautiful arc in the sky.
Both arc and "arch" come from the Latin element arcus, "bow". Archery and archer also come from this same Latin element.
ark (AHRK) (noun)
1. The chest containing the Ten Commandments of God, written on stone tablets and carried by the Hebrews during their long desert wanderings: As they wandered the desert, the Hebrews carried the Ark with them because it contained their sacred documents.
2. The boat mentioned in the Bible which God commanded Noah to build for shelter during the Great Flood: Noah was commanded to build an ark, big enough for two of each species of animals, in anticipation of the flood.
3. A large, flat-bottomed or awkward boat: They lived on an ark, or house boat, on the Seine River in Paris.
2. The boat mentioned in the Bible which God commanded Noah to build for shelter during the Great Flood: Noah was commanded to build an ark, big enough for two of each species of animals, in anticipation of the flood.
3. A large, flat-bottomed or awkward boat: They lived on an ark, or house boat, on the Seine River in Paris.
When Wilbur decided to move off the isolated island, he determined to build an ark to carry his possessions. The builder designed the ark using a long arc shaped bow.
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(Latin: arcus, bow, a curved structure)
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A portion of the circumference of a circle that is represented as a curved line.
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(a radiographic technique that produces an image of a detailed cross section of bodily tissue using a narrow collimated beam of x-rays that rotates in a full arc around a patient to image the body in cross-sectional slices)
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arc minute, arc second
Units for measuring small angles, used in astronomy.
An arc minute (symbol ') is one-sixtieth of a degree, and an arc second (symbol ") is one-sixtieth of an arc minute. Small distances in the sky, as between two close stars or the apparent width of a planet's disk, are expressed in minutes and seconds of arc.
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