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To arrive at

Arrive \Ar*rive"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Arrived; p. pr. & vb. n. Arriving.] [OE. ariven to arrive, land, OF. ariver, F. arriver, fr. LL. arripare, adripare, to come to shore; L. ad + ripa the shore or sloping bank of a river. Cf. Riparian.]

  1. To come to the shore or bank. In present usage: To come in progress by water, or by traveling on land; to reach by water or by land; -- followed by at (formerly sometimes by to), also by in and from. ``Arrived in Padua.''
    --Shak.

    [[AE]neas] sailing with a fleet from Sicily, arrived . . . and landed in the country of Laurentum.
    --Holland.

    There was no outbreak till the regiment arrived at Ipswich.
    --Macaulay.

  2. To reach a point by progressive motion; to gain or compass an object by effort, practice, study, inquiry, reasoning, or experiment.

    To arrive at, or attain to.

    When he arrived at manhood.
    --Rogers.

    We arrive at knowledge of a law of nature by the generalization of facts.
    --McCosh.

    If at great things thou wouldst arrive.
    --Milton.

  3. To come; said of time; as, the time arrived.

  4. To happen or occur. [Archaic]

    Happy! to whom this glorious death arrives.
    --Waller.

Usage examples of "to arrive at".

It was obvious that he was not the only one to arrive at this depressing conclusion.

But hand him a simple little social problem and he'll dither about it, trying to see all sides to arrive at the perfect answer.

I went into the pet shop, however, and that's how I came to arrive at Linda Ferns' house with my car full of fish tank, water weeds, miniature ruined castle walls, electric pump, lights, fish food, instructions, and three large lidded buckets of tropical fish.

Layton had acted suspiciously, Susan thought, the way he bolted minutes before Karen was due to arrive at the office.

According to the Wyeth Codex , the principle is based on hyperdimensional physics, phasing transport subjects from the relativistic here, through a quantum path, to arrive at a relativistic there .