Arcuate

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  • adjective. Having the form of a bow; curved.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Bent or curved in the form of a bow; arched: as, “oblique and arcuate lines,” Bacon, Nat. Hist., § 224.
  • The uncinate fasciculus of Meynert, passing across the bottom of the Sylvian fissure to connect the frontal and temporosphenoidal convolutions of the brain.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Bent or curved in the form of a bow.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. curved into the shape of a bow
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. forming or resembling an arch
  • Word Usage
    "In 1999 Gregory V. Hoppa, the late Randy Tufts, and a team of planetary scientists from the University of Arizona went a long way toward cracking the code, positing that the most mysterious fault lines identifiable on Europa — the wave-form-like "arcuate" fractures spiraling eerily across the crystalline landscapes near its poles — are almost certainly a result of Jupiter's shifting tidal pull on subsurface water."
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