What is "arcing"

Usage examples of "arcing".

It swooped and curved, arcing over the tops of the buildings and careering in spirals, a dimly glimpsed display of virtuoso aerobatics, a shadowy circus.

He threw another blazebomb into the ranks and it blew as he crouched, ants flying everywhere but still more and more from the cube in the sand, globular eyes, and he aimed more carefully and missed too much adrenalin but the next bomb flew true with a slight arcing trajectory only meters above their heads and down into them and right into the mouth of the cube, right on the upward sloping ramp, and blew just right.

The bloodstone ring, loose on his finger, sailing away from his hand as he cast the spear, arcing over the embattled swampland.

One of them approached Caph now and started haranguing him with a sound like an arcing electric current.

Pulling back on the stick, Carmen shoved the throttle to full power, sending the flyer arcing toward the clouds.

Without the internal armored bulkheads and cofferdams, the separate, parallel control runs, and redundant circuit breakers of military design, there was little to stop the train wreck of induced component failures, and a chain reaction of shorting, arcing superconductor rings raced through the compartment.

If the guidance comps, in their primitive way, felt any rebellious qualm about firing on their larger cousin, there was no indicationjust a few score fire-trails arcing away toward the boojum.

Dots of flame circled the Laputa like swarms of fireflies, some suddenly deorbiting to come arcing down on the ship.

Niles smiled as Russell tumbled from the loft in counterfeit glee, hurtling through the air, his arms pinwheeling, his body arcing into space and dropping out of the light into blackness, his voice ricocheting from the recesses of the barn as he landed with a thud in the haymow twenty feet away across the threshing floor.

Blanca replaced the single microsphere at the center of the wormhole with a long chain of microspheres arcing from one mouth to the other, stringing together virtual wormholes from the vacuum of adjacent universes.

He was in his late thirties, with dark wiry hair arcing over his forehead but cropped very close at the temples so that his ears seemed to stick out, small bright eyes like new nailheads on either side of a substantial nose, and a heavy dark moustache that turned up at the ends.

They could clearly see the Sagittarian arm, the companion spiral arm to their Aquarian home, arcing off to one side, and there in Leo lay the center of the galaxy, hidden by clouds of stars, with somewhere beating in its midst the great black hole round which the whole thing spins.

He allowed first one, then the other, to possess the spurting penis, during transfers permitting some ejaculate to escape, arcing a yard through the air.

And so he and Flynn were perfectly placed to see the grenade come arcing out of the defenders and tumble almost unhurriedly through the air toward Young Jack.

The molecules of water vapor in the clouds might allow the heavy charge accumulated in the ionosphere to leak off gradually during the long descent, avoiding any lightninglike arcing from the Thrust-tubes .