What is "circular arc"

Usage examples of "circular arc".

Here and there she thought she could see a gap in the ring system, a fine circular arc, full of stars.

She followed his beam as it inscribed a long circular arc on the wall.

They were dressed in some kind of purple uniform, and they were sitting in a loose circular arc that embraced the hillside, and they were singing.

As the other arm of Pinwheel rose to the top of its circular arc, she could make out thin plumes of white spurting behind it.

The circular arc displayed a slow dilation and contraction, like the pupil of a vast eye.

The steel barricades around the entrance had been dismantled by the previous divers, and the semi-circular arc of doors which led into the foyer was open.

In four places around its circular arc the wall was pierced by ornate arches that gave onto long vaulted passages running—.

In four places around its circular arc the wall was pierced by ornate arches that gave onto long vaulted passages runningEl peered down one, and then anotherto other domed chambers.

Now he turned the ship ninety degrees, beginning a wide circular arc with Sol at its center.

It takes considerable work for the ant to cut the circular arc in order to get a piece of leaf.

From a basically circular arc, craggy shapes projected both toward the star and away from it, splitting into branches, then subbranches, and so on till the eye lost track of the smallest.