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arcuate

arcuate adjective: curved into the shape of a bow.

Adjective

arcuate (comparative more arcuate, superlative most arcuate)

  1. curved into the shape of a bow.
    • arcuate stalks
    • The cause of the confusion in sounds, and the inconfusion in species visible, is, for that the sight worketh in right lines, and so there can be no coincidence in the eye; but sounds that move in oblique and arcuate lines, must needs encounter and disturb the one the other.1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted...

arcuate meaning in Tamil and Bengali

arcuate in Tamil

மூளை இணைப்பான், வில்வளை, வில்போல் வளைந்த, கவான் வடிவான

arcuate in Bengali

ধনুকের মতো বাঁকা

Forms of arcuate

comparativemore arcuate
superlativemost arcuate

Origin of arcuate

From Latin arcuātus.

Words formed from arcuate

Phrases with arcuate

Questions about arcuate

What does arcuate mean?
Arcuate means curved into the shape of a bow.
What is arcuate in Tamil?
Arcuate in Tamil is மூளை இணைப்பான், வில்வளை, வில்போல் வளைந்த. See Arcuate meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is arcuate?
Arcuate is an adjective.

Words near arcuate in the dictionary

  1. Arcturian
  2. arcturid
  3. arcturids
  4. Arcturus
  5. arcual
  6. arcuate
  7. arcuate fasciculi
  8. arcuate fasciculus
  9. arcuated
  10. arcuately
  11. arcuation

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