arc

名词 n. 动词 v.
/ɑːk/    /ɑɹk/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. That part of a circle which a heavenly body appears to pass through as it moves above and below the horizon.
  2. A continuous part of the circumference of a circle (circular arc) or of another curve.
    — The arc of a circle may be very little, but, given that, it is possible to construct the entire figure.
  3. A curve, in general.
    — Swing it from side to side in a high arc overhead.
  4. A band contained within parallel curves, or something of that shape.
  5. A flow of current across an insulating medium; especially a hot, luminous discharge either between two electrodes or as lightning.
  6. Ellipsis of story arc. abbreviation,alt-of,ellipsis
    — 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.
  7. Ellipsis of story arc.; A period or phase in a person's life. Internet,broadly
    — I'm hitting the gym three times a week or more at the moment. I'm in my gym bro arc.
  8. A continuous mapping from a real interval (typically [0, 1]) into a space.
  9. A directed edge.
  10. The three-point line. slang
  11. An arclight.
    — For all practical purposes the old carbon arcs, which were the backbone of film lighting, are no longer used.
动词 v.
  1. To move following a curved path. ambitransitive
    — A warring bloodhunter detected it and skillfully arced his sword through its spinal column before it could return to follow through with its attack.
  2. To shape into an arc; to hold in the form of an arc. transitive
    — His mother, her eyes raised to heaven, hands arked before her, moving, made real for John that patience, that endurance, that long suffering, which he had read in the Bible and found so hard to image.
  3. To form an electrical arc. intransitive

词形变化

arcs plural arcs present,singular,third-person arcing participle,present arcking participle,present,rare arced participle,past arced past arcked participle,past,rare arcked past,rare

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷ-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷos
Proto-Italic *arkuos
Latin arcus
Old French arcbor.
Middle English ark
English arc
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.
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷ-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷos
Proto-Italic *arkuos
Latin arcus
Old French arcbor.
Middle English ark
English arc
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.
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