arc

1. 1.

   form an arch or curve

   “her back arches”

   “her hips curve nicely”

   Synonymsarchcurve

   Broaderbend

   Narrowercamber

Other forms of arc

plural

arcs·

past tense or participle

arcked

present participle

arcking

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about arc

What does arc mean?

arc means "electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in arc?

arc has 1 syllable: arc. In IPA it is /ˈɑɹk/.

What is another word for arc?

Close synonyms include discharge, spark, electric arc, electric discharge, bow. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is arc a common word?

arc is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with arc?

3 words rhyme with arc. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.