# Arc vs Formula - What's the difference?

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## As an acronym arc

is (pathology) aids-related complex.

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# arc

## English

(wikipedia arc)

### Noun

(en noun)
• (astronomy) That part of a circle which a heavenly body appears to pass through as it moves above and below the horizon.
• (geometry) A continuous part of the circumference of a circle (circular arc) or of an other curve.
• A curve, in general.
• A band contained within parallel curves, or something of that shape.
• (electrics) A flow of current across an insulating medium; especially a hot, luminous discharge between either two electrodes or as lightning.
• A story arc.
• (mathematics) A continuous mapping from a real interval (typically [0, 1]) into a space.
• (graph theory) A directed edge.
• #### Synonyms

* (curve) curve, swoop * (circular arc) circular arc, circle segment * (directed edge) arrow, directed edge

### Verb

• To move following a curved path.
• * {{quote-news, year=2011
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• To form an electrical arc.

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# formula

## English

### Noun

(wikipedia formula)
• (mathematics) Any mathematical rule expressed symbolically.
• $x = \frac \left\{-b \pm \sqrt\left\{b^2 - 4ac\right\}\right\}\left\{2a\right\}$ is a formula for finding the roots of the quadratic equation ax2 + bx + c = 0 .
• (chemistry) A symbolic expression of the structure of a compound.
• H2O is the formula for water (Dihydrogen monoxide)
• a plan or method for dealing with a problem or for achieving a result
• The company's winning formula includes excellent service and quality products.
• A formulation; a prescription; a mixture or solution made in a prescribed manner; the identity and quantities of ingredients of such a mixture.
• The formula of the rocket fuel has not been revealed.
• Drink given to babies to substitute for mother's milk.
• (logic) A syntactic expression of a proposition, built up from quantifiers, logical connectives, variables, relation and operation symbols, and, depending on the type of logic, possibly other operators such as modal, temporal, deontic or epistemic ones.
• #### Synonyms

* (in mathematics) mathematical formula * (in chemistry) chemical formula

#### Hyponyms

* (logic) sentence

#### Derived terms

* (l) * formulate * formulation * Formula One * formula racing * multiformula