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Yes. The word arc is a Scrabble US word. The word arc is worth 5 points in Scrabble:

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A1R1C3

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3 letters words from 'arc'

ARC 5CAR 5

2 letters words from 'arc'

AR 2 

All 3 letters words made out of arc

arc rac acr car rca cra

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Definitions and meaning of arc

arc

Etymology

From Middle English ark, borrowed from Old French arc, from Latin arcus (“a bow, arc, arch”). Doublet of arch and arco.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) enPR: äk, IPA(key): /ɑːk/
  • (US) enPR: ärk, IPA(key): /ɑɹk/
  • Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)k
  • Homophone: ark

Noun

arc (plural arcs)

  1. (astronomy) That part of a circle which a heavenly body appears to pass through as it moves above and below the horizon. [from 14th c.]
  2. (geometry) A continuous part of the circumference of a circle (circular arc) or of another curve. [from 16th c.]
  3. A curve, in general. [from 17th c.]
  4. A band contained within parallel curves, or something of that shape. [from 17th c.]
  5. (electrics) A flow of current across an insulating medium; especially a hot, luminous discharge between either two electrodes or as lightning. [from 19th c.]
  6. A story arc. [from 20th c.]
  7. (mathematics) A continuous mapping from a real interval (typically [0, 1]) into a space.
  8. (graph theory) A directed edge.
  9. (basketball, slang) The three-point line.
  10. (film) An arclight.

Synonyms

  • (curve): curve, swoop
  • (circular arc): circular arc, circle segment
  • (directed edge): arrow, directed edge

Derived terms

  • arcweld
  • mercury arc rectifier

Translations

Verb

arc (third-person singular simple present arcs, present participle arcing or arcking, simple past and past participle arced or arcked)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To move following a curved path.
    • 2008, T. R. Elmore, Blood Ties Series, Volume 1, Tainted, Book 1 (page 106)
      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. (transitive) To shape into an arc; to hold in the form of an arc.
  3. (intransitive) To form an electrical arc.

Related terms

  • arch

Further reading

  • arc in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • arc in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
  • arc at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

  • CAR, CRA, Car, RAC, RCA, acr-, car, rac-

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan arc, from Latin arcus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷo-.

Pronunciation

  • (Balearic, Valencian) IPA(key): /ˈaɾk/
  • (Central) IPA(key): /ˈark/

Noun

arc m (plural arcs)

  1. bow (weapon)
  2. (music) bow (used to play string instruments)
  3. (geometry) arc
  4. (architecture) arch

Derived terms

  • arc de Sant Martí
  • arc de triomf
  • arc iris
  • arcada
  • arcbotant
  • arcar
  • arquejar
  • arquer

See also

  • fletxa

Further reading

  • “arc” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
  • “arc” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
  • “arc” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
  • “arc” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

From Old French arc, from Latin arcus (“bow, arch”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷo-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aʁk/

Noun

arc m (plural arcs)

  1. bow (weapon)
  2. arc (curve)
  3. (geometry) arc, circular arc, circle segment
  4. (architecture) arch

Derived terms

See also

  • flèche f
  • arche f

Anagrams

  • car

Further reading

  • “arc” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin arcus.

Noun

arc m (plural arcs)

  1. bow (weapon)
  2. (architecture) arch

Related terms

  • arcâ

See also

  • frece

Hungarian

Etymology

An archaic compound word of orr (“nose”) and száj (“mouth”), via Proto-Finno-Ugric elements. The original form of these two words was or and szá, the compound word orszá. Over time, the final vowel became short (orsza), the sz changed to c (orca), today a poetic or archaic version. The next change was the initial o to a (arca) which felt as a possessive form and later shortened to the current term.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɒrt͡s]
  • Rhymes: -ɒrt͡s

Noun

arc (plural arcok)

  1. (anatomy) face

Declension

Derived terms

References

Further reading

  • arc in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
  • arc in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (’A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2021)

Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aɾˠk/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish orc, arc (“piglet”).

Noun

arc m (genitive singular airc, nominative plural airc)

  1. piglet
  2. diminutive animal or person
Alternative forms
  • earc
Synonyms
  • arcachán
  • arcadán

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman arc, from Latin arcus (“a bow, arc, arch”).

Noun

arc m (genitive singular airc, nominative plural airc)

  1. (mathematics, geometry) arc
Derived terms
  • arclampa (“arc-lamp”)

Etymology 3

Noun

arc m (genitive singular airc, nominative plural airc)

  1. Alternative form of earc (“lizard; reptile”)

Declension

Mutation

Further reading

  • "arc" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
  • Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 orc (‘young pig’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin arcus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aɾk/

Noun

arc m (plural arcs)

  1. bow
  2. arch, arc

Derived terms

Old French

Etymology

From Latin arcus.

Noun

arc m (oblique plural ars, nominative singular ars, nominative plural arc)

  1. bow (weapon made of a curved piece of wood or other flexible material whose ends are connected by a string)
  2. (architecture) arch

Coordinate terms

  • (bow): saete

Descendants

  • → Middle English: ark, arke
    • English: arc
  • French: arc

Old High German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ark/

Adjective

arc

  1. Alternative form of arg

References

  • Joseph Wright, An Old High German Primer

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin arcus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷo-.

Noun

arc n (plural arcuri)

  1. bow (a weapon)
  2. (architecture) arch

Declension

Noun

arc n (plural arce)

  1. (geometry) arc

Declension

Derived terms

  • arcadă
  • arcan
  • arcatură
  • arcaș
  • arcui
  • arcuibil
  • arcuire
  • arcuit
  • arcuitură
  • arculeț
  • arcuș

Related terms

  • arcar

See also

  • săgeată

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /arxk/

Noun

arc f

  1. Bee (apoidea).
  2. Wasp (vespidae).
  3. Impost, tax.
  4. "Femen."(sic)

References


Source: wiktionary.org
  • a part of the circumference of a circle or other curve.
    (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)