Arc may refer to:

Mathematics

  • Arc (geometry), a segment of a differentiable curve
  • Circular arc, a segment of a circle
  • Arc (topology), a segment of a path
  • Arc length, the distance between two points along a section of a curve
  • Arc (projective geometry), a particular type of set of points of a projective plane
  • arc (function prefix) (arcus), a prefix for inverse trigonometric functions
  • Directed arc, a directed edge in graph theory
  • Minute and second of arc, a unit of angular measurement equal to 1/60 of one degree.
  • Wild arc, a concept from geometric topology

Science and technology

Geology

  • Arc, in geology a mountain chain configured as an arc due to a common orogeny along a plate margin or the effect of back-arc extension
  • Hellenic arc, the arc of islands positioned over the Hellenic Trench in the Aegean Sea off Greece
  • Back-arc basin, a subsided region caused by back-arc extension
  • Back-arc region, the region created by back-arc extension, containing all the basins, faults, and volcanoes generated by the extension
  • Island arc, an arc-shaped archipelago, usually so configured for geologic causes, such as sea-floor spreading, common orogeny on the margin of the same plate, or back-arc extension
  • Northeastern Japan Arc, an island arc
  • Banda Arc, a set of island arcs in Indonesia
  • Continental arc, in geology a continental mountain chain or parallel alignment of chains (as opposed to island arcs), configured in an arc
  • Eastern Arc Mountains, a continental arc of Africa
  • Volcanic arc, a chain of volcanoes positioned in an arc shape as seen from above
  • Aleutian Arc, a large volcanic arc in the U.S. state of Alaska
  • Nastapoka arc, a circular coastline in Hudson Bay

Technology

  • <code>arc</code>, the command-line interface for ArcInfo
  • ARC (file format), a file name extension for archive files
  • ARC (processor), 32-bit RISC architecture
  • Adaptive Replacement Cache, a page replacement algorithm for high-performance filesystems
  • Automatic Reference Counting, the Clang compiler's implementation of reference counting
  • Arc (programming language), a Lisp dialect designed by Paul Graham
  • Arc (web browser), a freeware web browser developed by The Browser Company
  • Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc, a cellphone
  • Audio Return Channel, an audio technology working over HDMI
  • Authenticated Received Chain, an email authentication system
  • Arc lamp, a lamp that produces light by an electric arc
  • Xenon arc lamp, a highly specialized type of gas discharge lamp
  • Deuterium arc lamp, a low-pressure gas-discharge light source
  • Hydrargyrum medium-arc iodide lamp, the trademark name of Osram's brand of metal-halide gas discharge medium arc-length lamp
  • Electric arc furnace, a furnace that heats charged material by means of an electric arc
  • Arc welding, a welding process that is used to join metal to metal
  • Arc-fault circuit interrupter, a specialized circuit breaker
  • Arc converter, a spark transmitter
  • Intel Arc, brand of graphics processing units designed by Intel
  • Arc, one side (half) of an arch

Other science and technology

  • Electric arc, an ongoing plasma discharge (an electric current through a gas), producing light and heat
  • Arc flash, the light and heat produced as part of an arc fault
  • Arc (protein), a name of product of an immediate early gene, also called Arg3.1
  • Reflex arc, a neural pathway that controls a reflex
  • Circumhorizontal arc, an optical phenomenon
  • Circumzenithal arc, an optical phenomenon

Arts and entertainment

Music

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  • A.R.C. (album), by pianist Chick Corea with bassist David Holland and drummer Barry Altschul recorded in 1971
  • Arc (Neil Young & Crazy Horse album), 1991
  • Arc (Everything Everything album), 2013
  • Arc (EP), a 2016 EP by Agoraphobic Nosebleed
  • "Arc", a song by Pearl Jam from Riot Act

Video games

  • Arc System Works, a video game developer
  • Luminous Arc, a video game series
  • The title character of Arc the Lad, a series of role-playing video games for the PlayStation and PlayStation 2

Other arts and entertainment

  • Tilted Arc, a controversial public art installation by Richard Serra
  • Arc Poetry Magazine, a Canadian literary journal
  • Character arc, the status of a character as it unfolds throughout the story
  • Story arc, an extended or continuing storyline
  • Arcs, one of the twelve basic principles of animation
  • Ultraman Arc, a 2024 Japanese television series produced by Tsubuyara Productions and TV Tokyo

Codes

  • Arcata Transit Center, Amtrak code for the station in Arcata, California
  • IATA airport code of Arctic Village Airport, a public use airport in Alaska
  • ISO 639-3 language code of the Official Aramaic language, spoken between 700 BCE and 300 BCE

Companies and organizations

  • Arc Infrastructure, an Australian railway company
  • Arc Institute, an American biomedical research organization
  • Arc International, a French manufacturer and distributor of household goods
  • Arc Publications, a UK independent publisher of poetry
  • Arc @ UNSW, the principal student organisation at the University of New South Wales
  • Arc of the United States, a charitable organization serving people with intellectual and developmental disabilities
  • Arc Holdings, a French manufacturer of household goods

Places

  • Arc (Provence), a river of southern France, flowing into the Étang de Berre
  • Arc (Savoie), a river of eastern France, tributary of the Isère river
  • Arc, short for "Arcade"; a Street suffix as used in the US

Sports

  • American Rivers Conference (abbreviation officially rendered as "A-R-C"), an NCAA Division III athletic conference
  • Arc (greyhounds), a major greyhound race in the Greyhound Board of Great Britain calendar
  • Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, a horse race in Paris

Other uses

  • Arc (Bahá'í), a number of administrative buildings for the Bahá'í Faith, located on Mount Carmel in Israel

See also

  • Joan of Arc (c. 1412–1431), national heroine of France and Catholic saint
  • ARC (disambiguation)
  • Arcs (disambiguation)
  • Arc Angel (disambiguation)
  • Arc reactor (disambiguation)
  • Arch (disambiguation)
  • Arch of Triumph (disambiguation)
  • Ark (disambiguation)
  • ARQ (disambiguation)