Orbital segments

Usage examples of arcs.

The ship was built with a series of cylinders arranged in a ring with arcs joining each segment.

Something -’ her hands waved, describing arcs and whorls of excitement, adventure, marvels in the vast and mysterious distance of time and space.

Sass stared past it at the water, ruffled into little arcs of silver and blue.

Flights of tongue-wasps patrolled there and arcs of lightning jagged over crater and canyon in patterned displays.

Two half-arcs in violently different directions, until he ended up facing an image of Ferngal that swayed and bobbed.

Two made contact, then fell away as open arcs, snaring and taking the other rings with them.

Hubble did well enough in its day with detail down to less than one hundred milliarcseconds across.

Indeed, the old man had mentioned mete­orites and the Ghosts that appeared in bright arcs in Turnover skies.

Saplings burst into flame when arcs touched them in broad slashes, but the freemen had spurred their ponies out of the way so that no more of them fell.

His display flickered with the strain, even though the arcs crossed two meters from the attacker’s gauntlet.

So long as the others’ suits didn’t have to power their arcs or electronic defenses, they could match his more efficient unit stride for stride.

Hansen could smell the hair crisped over most of his body, but now the blazing arcs surrounded him at a slight distance.

Three arcs hacked him simultaneously and continued cutting after the pirate’s vivid armor lay in bits on the smoking ground.

Training couldn’t change the fact that when the forces closed, many of the royal troops would face the arcs of two or three opponents—and would therefore be killed.

The warriors to their immediate front, trapped between stone and a wall of ripping arcs, could neither fight nor run.