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Arba Lijoch En route to Europe, while visiting the Armenian monastery in Jerusalem, Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia, then Crown Prince Ras Tafari, met 40 Armenian orphans (አርባ ልጆች Arba Lijoch, "forty children") who had escaped from the Armenian genocide in Turkey. They impressed him so much that he received permission from the Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem to adopt and bring them to Ethiopia, where he then arranged for them to receive musical instruction, and they formed the Imperial brass band.
Arba Minch Arba Minch (Amharic, "forty springs") is a city in the of Ethiopia. Located in the Semien Omo Zone of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples Region about 355 km south of Addis Ababa, this town has a longitude and latitude of .
Arba Minch Zuria Arba Minch Zuria (Amharic "Greater Arba Minch Area") is one of the 77 woredas in the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples' Region of Ethiopia. A part of the Semien Omo Zone located in the Great Rift Valley, Arba Minch Zuria is bordered on the south by the Dirashe special woreda, on the west by Bonke, on the north by Chencha, on the northeast by Boreda Abaya, on the east by the Oromia Region, and on the southeast by the Amaro special woreda.
Arba'ah Turim Arba'ah Turim (ארבעה טורים), often called simply the Tur, is an important Halakhic code, composed by Yaakov ben Asher (Spain, 1270 -c.1340, also referred to as "Ba'al ha-Turim", "Author of the Tur").
Arba'een Arba'een (اربعين, Arabic "forty"), or Chehlum, as it is known by Urdu-speaking Muslims, is a Shi'a religious holiday that occurs forty days after the Day of Ashurah, the commemoration of the martyrdom by beheading of Husayn bin Ali, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad which falls on the 20th day of the month of Safar. Husayn and 72 supporters died in the Battle of Karbala in the year 61 AH (680 CE).
Arbaces Arbaces, according to Ctesias, one of the generals of Sardanapalus, king of Assyria and founder of the Median empire about 830 BC. From the inscriptions of Sargon II of Assyria we know one Arbaku of Arnashia as one of forty-five chiefs of Median districts who paid tribute to Sargon in 713 BC.
Arbalester Arbalester is a scrolling shoot 'em up arcade game released by Seta in 1989, licensed to Taito and Romstar. You control a fighter jet and shoot enemies in the air and on the ground, collect power-ups, and defeat bosses to advance levels.
Arban method The Arban Method (La grande méthode complète de cornet à piston et de saxhorn par Arban) is a complete pedagogical method for students of trumpet, cornet, and other valved brass instruments. The original edition was published by Jean-Baptiste Arban in 1864 and it has never been out of print since.
Arbanasi Arbanasi (Bulgarian: Арбанаси, also transliterated as Arbanassi) is a village in Veliko Tarnovo Province of Northern Bulgaria, set on a high plateau between the larger towns of Veliko Tarnovo (4 km away) and Gorna Oryahovitsa. It is known for the rich history and large number of historical monuments, such as medieval churches and examples Bulgarian National Revival architecture, which have turned it into a popular tourist destination.
Arbanasi Nunatak Arbanasi Nunatak (Nunatak Arbanasi 'nu-na-tak ar-ba-'na-si) is a 320 m high rocky peak in Vidin Heights, Livingston Island, Antarctica. The peak was named after the settlement and monastery of Arbanasi near the old Bulgarian capital of Veliko Tarnovo.
Arbatel de magia veterum Arbatel de magia veterum (English: Arbatel of the magic of the ancients) is a treatise on ceremonial magic written in Latin, first published in 1575 in Basel, Switzerland. The author is unknown, but textual evidence suggests that the author was Italian.
Arbatskaya (Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya) Arbatskaya (Арбатская) is a station on the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line of the Moscow Metro. Along with Smolenskaya and Kievskaya, it was built in 1953 to replace an older, parallel section of track which has since become part of the Filyovskaya Line.
Arbëresh language Arbëresh (or Arbërishte or Arbërisht) is the dialect of the Albanian language spoken by the Arbëreshë, the Albanian-speaking minority in Italy. It derives from the Tosk dialect spoken in southern Albania, and is spoken in Southern Italy in the regions of Calabria, Molise, Puglia, Basilicata, Campania, Abruzzi and Sicily.
Arbëreshë Arbëreshë are an Albanian-speaking community living in southern Italy and Sicily. These people are descendants of Albanians who settled in Italy during the 15th and 16th centuries, after the great Albanian hero Skanderbeg died, and the Ottoman Empire was able to assume hegemony over the region.
Arbegona (woreda) Arbegona is one of the 77 woredas in the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples' Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Sidama Zone, Arbegona is bordered on the southwest by Hula, on the west by Dale, on the northwest by Shebedino, on the north by the Oromia Region, and on the east by Bensa.
Arbeia Arbeia is the remains of a large Roman fort in South Shields, Tyne & Wear, which has been partially reconstructed. It was first excavated in the 1870s and all modern building on the site were cleared in the 1970s.
Arbeit macht frei "Arbeit macht frei" is a German phrase meaning "work brings freedom" or "work shall set you free/will free you" or "work liberates", literally "work makes free".
Arbeiter-Illustrierte-Zeitung Arbeiter-Illustrierte-Zeitung or AIZ (in English, The Workers Pictorial Newspaper) was a weekly German illustrated magazine published between 1924 and 1938 in Berlin and Prague. Anti-Fascism and pro-Communism in stance, it was published by Willi MĂĽnzenberg and is best remembered for the brilliantly propagandistic photomontages of John Heartfield.
Arbeitseinsatz Arbeitseinsatz (labour intake) was forced labour (Zwangsarbeit) during World War II when German men were called up for military service and German authorities rounded up labourers in the occupied territories to fill in the vacancies. Arbeitseinsatz was not restriced to the industry sector and to arm factories, it also took place e.
Arbeitsgemeinschaft fĂĽr Osteosynthesefragen Arbeitsgemeinschaft fĂĽr Osteosynthesefragen (commonly called AO) (German for Association for the Study of Internal Fixation) is a non profit organization dedicated to improving the care of patients with musculoskeletal injuries and their sequelae through research, development, education and quality assurance in the principles, practice, and result of fracture treatment.
Arbeitsgemeinschaft Online-Forschung The Arbeitsgemeinschaft Online-Forschung (AGOF) (Working Group Online Research) was founded 2002 in Darmstadt to do research on the coverage of commercial german websites. Aim of the AGOF is a continous study of the behaviour of all Germans older than 14 in the Internet.
Arbeitsrat fĂĽr Kunst The Arbeitsrat fĂĽr Kunst (German: 'Workers council for art' or 'Art Soviet') was a union of architect, painters, sculptors and art writers, who were based in Berlin from 1918 to 1921. It developed as a response to the Workers and Soldiers councils and was dedicated to the goal of bringing the current developments and tendencies in architecture and art to a broader population.
Arbella The Arbella was the flagship of the Winthrop Fleet on which, between April 8 and June 12, 1630, Governor John Winthrop, other members of the Company and Puritan emigrants transported themselves and the Charter of the Massachusetts Bay Company from England to Salem, thereby giving legal birth to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. John Winthrop is reputed to have given the famous 'City upon a Hill' sermon aboard the ship, though research indicates that the sermon may actually have been delivered previously in England.
Arbella Stuart Arbella Stuart (or "Arabella" and/or "Stewart") (1575 - 27 September 1615), was an English Renaissance noblewoman who was for some time considered a possible successor to Queen Elizabeth I on the English throne.
Arbelos In geometry, an arbelos is a plane region bounded by a semicircle of radius 1, connected to semicircles or radius r and (1 − r), all oriented the same way and sharing a common baseline. (The baseline of a semicircle is a straight line forming the diameter which connects the ends of the arc.
Arben Xhaferi Arben Xhaferi (in Macedonian: Арбен Џафери) is president of the Democratic Party of Albanians in Macedonia (PDSH). Xhaferi is an influential fighter in the battle between minority Albanians and the majority Macedonians in Republic of Macedonia and has been both vocal in calling for a change in the Preamble of the Constitution of Republic of Macedonia.
Arbet Kozhaya Arbet Kozhaya, also known as Arbet Qozhaya or Arabet Kozhaya, is one of the fifty-six towns and villages, which make up the Zgharta District (Zgharta Zawie) in northern Lebanon.The village name is spelt as either Arbet Kozhaya or Arbet Qozhaya, depending on way the Arabic name is translated.
Arbetar-Tidningen Arbetar-Tidningen (Workers Newspaper) was a communist newspaper from Göteborg, Sweden, published 1929-1974. AT was started directly after the 1929 split of the Communist Party of Sweden (SKP), when the Kilbom faction took the regional SKP publication Väst-Svenska Kuriren with them.
Arbetarnas Bildningsförbund ABF, short for Arbetarnas Bildningsförbund (The Workers' Enlightenment League) is the Swedish educational section of the labour movement. ABF conducts seminars, classes and study circles on all kinds of subjects, including workshops, languages and music, although the main aspects of ABF are the pro-socialistic political views.
Arbeter Fraynd Arbeter FrayndAs it was spelled in the Paris edition, which corresponds to the contemporary literary Yiddish and to the dialects of most Yiddish readers at that time. Originally, the title used to be spelled Arbeyter Fraynd (אַרְבֵּייטֶער פְרַיינְד), which seems to reflect the Galician and Polish Yiddish dialects.
Arbetsförmedlingen Arbetsförmedlingen is a Swedish employment agency with over 325 local offices around Sweden. Its offices belong in the respective counties' labour boards, which are included in the Swedish Labour Market Agency (AMV).
Arbi Barayev Arbi Barayev, was a renegade leader of Special Purpose Islamic Regiment, a militant Chechen rebel group. He was also known as The Terminator or his personal count of 170 murders, including the executions of three Britons and a New Zealander kindapped in 1998.
Arbidol Arbidol (Russian Cyrillic Арбидол) is an antiviral drug manufactured by Masterlek in Moscow, Russia. It is an alternative to Tamiflu (manufactured by Roche Pharmaceuticals) used in the fight against avian flu.
Arbil Arbil (also written Erbil or Irbil; BGN: Arbīl; , Arbīl; Kurdish: , Hewlêr; Syriac: ܐܪܒܝܠ, Arbela) is believed by many to be the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world and is one of the larger cities in Iraq [http://www.worldtravelguide.
Arbil Governorate Arbīl (Arabic: أربيل, Kurdish: هه‌ولێر Hewlêr; also transliterated as Irbil or Erbil) is a governorate of Iraq located in the north of the country. It derives its name from the city of Arbil, which is also its capital ().
Arbitrage In economics, arbitrage is the practice of taking advantage of a price differential between two or more markets: a combination of matching deals are struck that capitalize upon the imbalance, the profit being the difference between the market prices. When used by academics, an arbitrage is a transaction that involves no negative cash flow at any probabilistic or temporal state and a positive cash flow in at least one state; in simple terms, a risk-free profit.
Arbitrage betting Betting arbitrage or sports arbitraging is a particular case of arbitrage arising on betting markets due to either bookmakers' different opinions on event outcomes or plain errors. By placing one bet per each outcome with different betting companies, the bettor can make a profit.
Arbitral tribunal An arbitral tribunal (or arbitration tribunal) is a panel of one or more adjudicators which is convened and sits to resolve a dispute by way of arbitration. The tribunal may consist of a sole arbitrator, or there may be two or more arbitrators, which might include either a chairman or an umpire.
Arbitrary Choices and actions are considered to be arbitrary when they are done not by means of any underlying principle or logic, but by whim or some decidedly illogical formula. For example, rearranging, for no reason, the letters of the alphabet so the letters appear in a staggered fashion (e.
Arbitrary code In computer security, arbitrary code is executable code introduced externally that runs despite the intent of the original programmer. The code is injected into a currently-running application or its memory space, thus making the application execute the code.
Arbitrary waveform generator An arbitrary waveform generator (AWG) is a piece of electronic test equipment used to generate electrical waveforms. These waveforms can be either repetitive or single-shot (once only) in which case some kind of triggering source is required (internal or external).
Arbitrary-precision arithmetic On a computer, arbitrary-precision arithmetic, also called bignum arithmetic, is a technique that allows computer programs to perform calculations on integers or rational numbers (including floating-point numbers) with an arbitrary number of digits of precision, typically limited only by the available memory of the host system. It is often implemented by storing a number as a variable-length array of digits in some base, in contrast to most computer arithmetic which uses a fixed number of bits related to the size of the processor registers.
Arbitration Arbitration is a legal technique for the resolution of disputes outside the courts, wherein the parties to a dispute refer it to one or more persons (the "arbitrators" or "arbitral tribunal"), by whose decision (the "award") they agree to be bound. In the United States and other countries, the term is sometimes used in the context of describing alternative dispute resolution (ADR), a category that more commonly refers to mediation (a form of settlement negotiation facilitated by a neutral third party).
Arbitration award An arbitration award (or arbitral award) is a determination on the merits by an arbitration tribunal in an arbitration, and is analogous to a judgment in a court of law. It is referred to as an 'award' even where all of the claimant's claims fail (and thus no money needs to be paid by either party), or the award is of a non-monetary nature.
Arbitration clause An arbitration clause is a commonly used clause in a contract that requires the parties to resolve their disputes through an arbitration process. Although such a clause may or may not specify that arbitration occur within a specific jurisdiction, it always binds the parties to a type of resolution outside of the courts, and is therefore considered a kind of forum selection clause.
Arbitration Commission of the Peace Conference on the former Yugoslavia The Arbitration Commission of the Peace Conference on the Former Yugoslavia (commonly known as Badinter Arbitration Committee) was a commission set up by Council of Ministers of the European Economic Community in 1991 to provide Peace Conference on the Former Yugoslavia with legal advice. Robert Badinter was elected as President of the Commission by the four other members, all presidents of Constitutional Courts in the EEC.
Arbitration in the United States of America Arbitration, in the context of United States law, is a form of alternative dispute resolution — specifically, a legal alternative to litigation whereby the parties to a dispute agree to submit their respective positions (through agreement or hearing) to a neutral third party (the arbitrator(s) or arbiter(s)) for resolution. In practice arbitration is generally used as a substitute for judicial systems, particularly when the judicial processes are viewed as too slow, expensive or biased.
Arbitration Rock The Arbitration Rock was set in 1769 as the boundary marker between the two Long Island townships of Newtown and Bushwick. Since Newtown was in Queens County and Bushwick in Kings County, this rock the size of a Volkswagen Beetle also served to mark the dividing line between these two English colonial New York counties.
Arbok are one of the fictional species of Pokémon creatures from the multi-billion-dollar Pokémon media franchise—a collection of video games, anime, manga, books, trading cards, and other media created by Satoshi Tajiri. The purpose of Arbok in the games, anime, and manga, as with all other Pokémon, is to battle both wild Pokémon—untamed creatures that characters encounter while embarking on various adventures— and tamed Pokémon creatures owned by Pokémon trainers.
Arbor Heights, Seattle, Washington Arbor Heights is a neighborhood in West Seattle, Washington, made up of the area south of S. Roxbury Street, north and east of Puget Sound, and west of the Seattle city limits (excluding the downhill portion on the west side of this region).
Arbor Low Arbor Low is a late Neolithic henge monument, lying in the Derbyshire Peak District approximately three miles west of Youlgreave. It is the best-known prehistoric monument in the Peaks and was part of a wider Neolithic ritual landscape.
Arbor Mist Arbor Mist is the brand name of an alcoholic beverage which blends seasonal wines such as merlot, zinfandel and chardonnay with fruit flavorings. Arbor Mist has a lower alcohol content than most wines, and is usually cheaper than other similar alcoholic beverages.
Arbor Place Mall Arbor Place Mall, the only mall directly serving the western suburbs of Atlanta, is located in Douglasville, GA in Douglas County. Originally opened in 1999, the mall was to open originally with Dillard's, Parisian, Sears and Upton's.
Arborea (Dungeons & Dragons) In Dungeons & Dragons, fantasy role-playing game, Arborea or more fully, the Olympian Glades of Arborea, is a chaotic good-aligned plane of existence. It is one of a number of alignment-based Outer Planes that form part of the standard Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) cosmology, used in the Planescape, Greyhawk and some editions of the Forgotten Realms campaign settings.
Arboretum An arboretum is a botanical garden primarily devoted to trees and other woody plants, forming a living collection of trees intended at least partly for scientific study. An arboretum specialising in growing conifers is known as a pinetum.
Arboretum at Arizona State University The Arboretum at Arizona State University is an arboretum located in small exhibit sites scattered across walkways and open areas throughout the campus of the Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona. All of the sites are open to the public daily without charge, since the campus' public areas are not shut off from city streets.
Arboretum Creek Arboretum Creek is a stream in Seattle, Washington, USA, whose entire length of approximately 4000 feet lies within the boundaries of the Washington Park Arboretum. Its average channel width is 4 feet and its average channel depth is 2 feet.
Arboretum of the University of Central Florida The Arboretum of the University of Central Florida is an arboretum and botanical garden in Orlando, Florida, USA. Covering 80 acres (32 hectares), it contains more than 600 species of plants, including more than 100 bromeliads, in cultivated gardens.
Arborglyph Arborglyphs are tree carvings made in the bark of Aspen trees by Basque and Irish shepherds throughout the Pacific Northwest United States. They have been documented in areas between northern California and Boise, Idaho.
Arboricity The arboricity of an undirected graph is the minimum number of forests into which its edges can be partitioned. Equivalently it is the minimum number of spanning trees needed to cover all the edges of the graph.
Arboriculture Arboriculture is the selection, planting, care, and removal of individual trees, shrubs, vines, and other perennial woody plants, and the study of how they grow and respond to cultural practices and the environment.
Arborist An arborist (or tree surgeon) is a professional who practices arboriculture, the management and maintenance of trees (generally in an urban environment). While trees provide many benefits, they can also be very large, heavy, and complex organisms that require professional monitoring and treatment to ensure they are healthy and safe.
Arborite Arborite is a brand of composite material manufactured by the Arborite Company, founded in Canada in 1948 after the initial development of the product in 1942 by Howard Smith Paper Mills. (The company is currently owned by Forbo International, a Swiss firm, although it maintains operations in Canada and elsewhere).
Arbormon Arbormon is a fictional character in Digimon and is a major character in Digimon Frontier. He was voiced by Richard Cansino (US), who did an impersonation of Sylvester Stallone as Rocky, and Kenji Nomura (Japan).
Arborsculpture Arborsculpture is a branch of arboriculture specifically involved with the shaping of tree trunks, branches and roots into structures with ornamental or functional utility. Basic techniques involve pruning, grafting and bending single or multiple trees into shapes that grow thicker and stronger as they add annual rings.
Arbourthorne Arbourthorne ward—which includes the districts of Arbourthorne, Gleadless, and Norfolk Park—is one of the 28 electoral wards in City of Sheffield, England. It is located in the southeastern part of the city and covers an area of 4.
Arbovirus An Arbovirus (short for Arthropod-borne virus) is a virus that is primarily transmitted by arthropods, such as ticks and mosquitoes. The term Arbovirus is not part of the taxonomic classification of viruses, that is, viruses from different families and even orders can be arboviruses.
Arboye Arboye is a town in eastern Ethiopia and the administrative centre of the Jeju woreda. Located in the Arsi Zone of the Oromia Region, 168 kilometers southeast of Addis Ababa on the road between Adama and Dire Dawa, this town has a latitude and longitude of .
Arbre du Ténéré , known in English as the Tree of Ténéré, was a solitary acacia, of either Acacia raddiana or Acacia tortilus, that was once considered the most isolated tree on Earth — the only one within more than 400 km. It was a landmark on caravan routes through the Ténéré region of the Sahara in northeast Niger — so well known that it is the only tree to be shown on a map at a scale of 1:4,000,000.
Arbroath Abbey Arbroath Abbey was founded in 1178 by King William the Lion for a group of Tironensian Benedictine monks from Kelso Abbey. It was consecrated in 1197 with a dedication to the deceased Saint Thomas Becket, whom the king had met at the English court.
Arbroath railway station Arbroath railway station serves the town of Arbroath in Angus, Scotland. The station was originally opened on February 1 1841 as a link station to connect the Arbroath and Forfar Railway with the Dundee and Arbroath Railway.
Arbuckle Reservoir The Arbuckle Reservoir is a reservoir located in southern Oklahoma, just south of Sulphur in Murray County. The secluded lake is a principal water supply reservoir for the city of Ardmore, some 30 miles to the southwest.
Arburg The German machine construction company ARBURG GmbH + Co KG, which has always been a family-run business, is a world leader with its injection-moulding machines of small and medium clamping forces. The comprehensive machine range with clamping forces of between 125 kN and 5000 kN and the corresponding peripherals are used in the production of plastic parts for the automotive sector, for communication and entertainment electronics, for medical technology, domestic appliances and in the packaging industry, for example.
Arbuscular mycorrhiza An arbuscular mycorrhiza (plural mycorrhizae or mycorrhizas) is a type of mycorrhiza in which the fungus penetrates the cortical cells of the roots of a vascular plant. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi belong to the division Glomeromycota.
Arbusto Energy Arbusto Energy (sometimes referred to as Arbusto Oil), was a petroleum and energy company formed in Midland, Texas, in 1977, by George Walker Bush and a group of investors which included Dorothy Bush, Lewis Lehrman, William Henry Draper III, Bill Gammell, and James R. Bath.
Arbuthnott Commission The Arbuthnott Commission on Boundary Differences and Voting SystemsExternal link: Arbuthnott Commission website was set up in July 2004 by Alistair Darling, then Secretary of State for Scotland, under the chairmanship of Sir John Arbuthnott, to examine various consequences of having four different systems of voting in Scotland, and different boundaries for constituencies of the House of Commons (Parliament of the United Kingdom, at Westminster) and the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood).
Arbutus Cove Arbutus Cove is located in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada in the municipality of Saanich, British Columbia. It is a popular beach for skimboarders and kayakers, and one of the few suburban beaches in Victoria where fires are not prohibited.
Arbutus Ridge Arbutus Ridge is a mostly residential neighbourhood in the city of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It is bordered by 16th Avenue in the north, 41st Avenue in the south, Mackenzie Street in the west, and East Boulevard in the east.
Arby's Arby's is a fast food restaurant franchise in the United States and Canada that is primarily known for selling roast beef sandwiches, potato cakes, curly fries and Jamocha milkshakes and chicken strips. The company's target market attempts to be more adult-oriented than other fast food restaurants.
Arc (geometry) In Euclidean geometry, an arc is a closed segment of a differentiable curve in the two-dimensional plane; for example, a circular arc is a segment of a circle. If the arc segment occupies a great circle (or great ellipse), it is considered a great-arc segment.
Arc (projective geometry) Let pi be a finite projective plane (not necessarily Desarguesian) of order q. A (k,d) -arc A (kleq 1,dleq 1)is a set of k points of pi such that each line intersects A in at most d points, and there is at least one line that does intersect A in d points.
Arc Car Wash ARC Car Wash ARC is a trading name of a conveyor car wash company owned by Anduff Car Wash Ltd and has over 300 sites in the UK. It is part of the IMO Car Wash Group which collectively has over 900 sites worldwide and is the worlds largest independent car wash operator.
Arc de Triomphe The Arc de Triomphe is a monument in Paris that stands in the centre of the Place Charles de Gaulle, formerly the Place de l'Étoile, at the western end of the Champs-Élysées. It is the linchpin of the historic axis (L'Axe historique) leading from the courtyard of the Louvre Palace, a sequence of monuments and grand thoroughfares on a route leading out of Paris.
Arc Dome Wilderness The Arc Dome Wilderness is a protected wilderness area in the Toiyabe Range of Nye County, in the central section of the state of Nevada in the western United States. It covers an area of approximately 115,000 acres (465 km²), and is administered by the Toiyabe National Forest.
Arc Dream Publishing Arc Dream Publishing is a small role-playing game publishing company founded in 2002 by Pagan Publishing veteran Dennis Detwiller and editor Shane Ivey after the release of their first roleplaying game Godlike: Superhero Roleplaying in a World on Fire, 1936-1946 was published by Hobgoblynn Press.
Arc Flashlight Arc Flashlight LLC was an American manufacturer that produced innovative LED flashlights, several of which were the genesis of or inspiration for products from other manufacturers. Arc Flashlight LLC began operation May 2001, and went out of business September 22, 2004.
Arc length Determining the length of an irregular arc segment—also called rectification of a curve—was historically difficult. Although many methods were used for specific curves, the advent of calculus led to a general formula that provides closed-form solutions in some cases.
Arc mapping Arc mapping is a technique used in fire investigation, usually performed by a forensic electrical engineer. It relies on finding the locations of electrical arcs and other electrical faults that occurred during the fire; the locations of the electrical faults can then, under some circumstances, indicate the progression of the fire over time.
Arc Manche Arc Manche is a transnational region covering parts of southern England and northern France. Its purpose is to encourage collaboration between local authorities and businesses on either side of the English Channel, and to allow local authorities to collectively apply for EU funding.
Arc of Infinity Arc of Infinity is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four twice-weekly parts from January 3 to January 12, 1983. Janet Fielding returned as companion Tegan Jovanka in this serial, rejoining the Fifth Doctor and Nyssa on their travels.
Arc programming language Arc is a dialect of Lisp, currently developed by Paul Graham. He wants to make it a language for hackers, because "a programming language is good as a programming language (rather than, say, an exercise in denotational semantics or compiler design) if and only if hackers like it.
Arc the Lad (video game) Arc the Lad is a strategy tactical role-playing video game developed by G-Craft for the Playstation. It was released in 1995 in Japan, and released in North America on April 18, 2002 as part of Arc the Lad Collection.
Arc welding Arc welding refers to a group of welding processes that use a welding power supply to create an electric arc between an electrode and the base material to melt the metals at the welding point. They can use either direct (DC) or alternating (AC) current, and consumable or non-consumable electrodes.
Arc'teryx Arc'teryx is an outdoor clothing and sporting goods company founded in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, in 1991. The company still maintains its headquarters, design studios, and primary manufacturing facilities at that location.
Arc-PVD The arc evaporation process is a Physical vapor deposition (PVD) process that takes place under a vacuum atmosphere and is used for coating of mainly metallic substrates but can be used to coat other materials such as glass or ceramics.
Arc/INFO ASCII grid An Arc/INFO ASCII grid is a raster file format, which was designed by ESRI for exchange with other GIS programs. It is an ASCII file with a simple structure, where the first six lines indicate the reference of the grid, followed by the values listed in the order they would naturally appear (left-right, top-down).
Arcada Software Arcada Software was a computer software company that was formed in early 1994 by the merger of Conner Software (the software division of Conner Peripherals) of Lake Mary, Florida, and Astora Software, formerly Quest Development Corporation, of San Luis Obispo, California.
Arcade (TV series) Arcade is an Australian television soap opera shown in 1980 that became one of the biggest flops in the history of Australian television. It aired on the Ten Network with the first episode shown on January 20 1980.
Arcade and Attica Railroad Incorporated in 1917, the Arcade and Attica Railroad is a shortline railroad that hauls freight between Arcade, New York and North Java, New York. The railroad originally connected Arcade with Attica, New York, however the right of way north of North Java was abandoned in 1957 due to flooding on the Tonawanda Creek.
Arcade Building (Toronto) The Arcade Building on Yonge Street was built in 1884 and was the equivalent of the Toronto Eaton Centre in the late 1800s. The 4 storey building was demolished in the 1970s and replaced by a modern building with the same name.

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