volcanic arc

How the polling firms and the media adjust to new realities also seems to be a rather long arc.
The Gun Battle Since Newtown|Cliff Schecter|December 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
So the plan is for Ken to draw an arc with Dale doing covers, and then Dale does an arc with Ken doing covers.
Gail Simone’s Bisexual Catman and the â€?Secret Sixâ€™|Rich Goldstein|December 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST
A Molotov cocktail tumbled in an arc overhead and erupted briefly in a blaze.
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The stream of bubbly from the popped champagne bottle creates an angelic arc over her, and lands right in the glass.
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At this point in the arc, he doubts what Hershel is telling him.
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In this position, the line of cavalry formed the chord of the arc described by the river, and occupied by us.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various
The volcanic eruptions of the mountains on the west broke down its barriers, and let its waters flow.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846|Various
But scorn is far more volcanic than glacial and a poor barrier between sex and judgment.
Ancestors|Gertrude Atherton
The sequestered spot, a seat beneath a plane tree, with a lonesome arc-lamp shining full upon it, was occupied.
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol|William J. Locke
Formosa, a large island in the Chinese sea, almost wholly inundated by volcanic agency, during a storm.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology|Joel Munsell

Scientific definitions for volcanic arc

volcanic arc

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A curved chain of volcanoes in the overriding tectonic plate of a subduction zone. Volcanic arcs form as the result of rising magma formed by the melting of the downgoing plate. They are curved because of the curvature of the Earth. The Andes mountains form a volcanic arc. See also island arc.

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