Synonyms:
discharge, spark, arc, electric_arc, electric_discharge
Meaning: electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field
Synonyms:
arc
Meaning: a continuous portion of a circle
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
arch, curve, arc
Meaning: form an arch or curve; "her back arches"; "her hips curve nicely"
Usage examples
I went toward the next one, swinging the flaring hose in a slow arc as I advanced.
What is this, a card party or a hen fight? Carol, you stop admiring yourself as the Joan of Arc of the hired girls, or I'll spank you.
But it didn't work. We had an arc there of a most terrifying character, but they never moved a muscle." Another episode at Goerck Street did not find the visitors quite so stoical.
Baptized before without the choice, But this time consciously, of grace Unto supremest name, Called to my full, the crescent dropped, Existence's whole arc filled up With one small diadem.
He thought he had found the truth; but no, before long the position of the planet, as calculated, and as recorded by Tycho, differed by eight minutes of arc, or about one-eighth of a degree.
Then Jacqueline the Countess, seeing her cause in danger--like another Joan of Arc, though she was indeed a younger and much more beautiful girl general,--seized the lion-banner of her house, and, at the head of her reserve troops, charged through the open gate straight into the ranks of her victorious foes.