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"ARCS" is a plural of: arc. |
Date "ARCS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1671. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | ARCS ARC. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Domain | Title | ||
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Theater & Movies | |||
Consumer Goods | |||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | A Hubble telescope survey of the sky has uncovered exotic patterns, rings, arcs, and crosses ... Credit: NASA. |  | Plotting Raydist readings with Odessey protractor Note circular arcs on boat sheet denoting range-range navigation Launch party off of PIONEER. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Halos, arcs, and sundogs. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "ARCS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 94.37% of the time. "ARCS" is used about 142 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 94.37% | 134 | 27,488 |
| Noun (proper) | 5.63% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Total | 100.00% | 142 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "ARCS": Arcs-bios. | |
Ending with "ARCS": space-arcs. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
arcs.com aux | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ARCS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 弧 (arc). (various references) | ||||
German | Bögen (bows). (various references) | ||||
Italian | archi. (various references) | ||||
Korean | 아크 (arc). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | arcsay | ||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ARCS": arcsine, arcsines. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "ARCS": ectosarcs, endosarcs, futharcs, marcs, narcs, perisarcs. (additional references) | |
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"ARCS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aacs, abces, accs, acgs, acq, acr, acrass, acrss, acs, acsc, acsp, acz, Adcs, aecs, afc, afcf, afcs, Agcus, aics, airc, aircr, Ajc, Alcs, apcs, Aqc, arac, aras, arbs, Arca, Arcc, arce, arck, arcm, arct, ards, arfs, Arics, Arku, armcs, aros, Arrc, ars, Arsch, arses, Arvs, arx, avc, Awcc, ercps, ircs, Karcsa, larcs, narcs, orcs, Orczy, Rasc, Raucs, rccs, rcs, ukccs, urks. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "ARCS" (pronounced Ä"rks) |
| 4 | Ä" r k s | barks, embarks, harks, larks, marks, Marques, parks, quarks, remarks, sharks, sparks. |
| 3 | -r k s | ballparks, benchmarks, birthmarks, corks, earmarks, forks, hallmarks, landmarks, monarchs, patriarchs, pitchforks, trademarks, uncorks. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: cars, scar. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-r-s" | |
-1 letter: arc, ars, car, ras, sac. | |
-2 letters: ar, as. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-r-s" | |
+1 letter: acres, arcus, carbs, cards, cares, carks, carls, carns, carps, carrs, carse, carts, chars, crabs, crags, crams, craps, crash, crass, craws, czars, escar, marcs, narcs, orcas, races, racks, sacra, scare, scarf, scarp, scars, scart, scary, scaur, scrag, scram, scrap, serac. | |
+2 letters: acarus, acorns, across, actors, arches, arecas, braces, brachs, bracts, cabers, cadres, caesar, cagers, cairds, cairns, caners, capers, capris, carats, carbos, carers, caress, carets, cargos, caries, carles, carobs, carols, caroms, carpus, carses, cartes, carves, casern, caster, castor, caters, causer, cavers, cedars, cerias, cesura, chairs, charas, chards, chares, charks, charms, charrs, charts, chaser, cigars, claros, clears, coarse, cobras, copras, corals, corsac, costar, craals, cracks, crafts, crakes, cramps, cranes, cranks, crapes, crases, crasis, crates, craves, crawls, crazes, creaks, creams, crease, creasy, crissa, crista, croaks, cymars, darics, ericas, escarp, escars, eschar, facers, farces, fracas, francs, graces, lacers, lascar, macers, macros, nacres, narcos, pacers, parsec, racers, rachis, racism, racist, racons, rances, rascal, reacts, recaps, recast, sacker, sacral, sacred, sacrum, saucer, scalar, scaler, scarab, scarce, scared, scarer, scares, scarey, scarfs, scarph, scarps, scarry, scarts, scaurs, sclera, scoria, scrags, scrams, scrape, scraps, scrawl, screak, scream, scrota, search, secpar, seracs, soucar, sowcar, spacer, starch, tarocs, traces, tracks, tracts, triacs, vicars, wracks. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Photo Album | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Bibliography |
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