Arch (disambiguation)
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An arch is a curved structure capable of spanning a space while supporting significant weight. It may also refer to the act of arching, or curving, an object such as the human back.
Arch may also refer to:
- Gateway Arch, an iconic monument in St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
- The Arch, structure at the north entrance to the University of Georgia which symbolizes the university, and whose design is taken from the state seal
- Arch (fingerprint), a basic pattern
- Arch, Switzerland, a municipality in the Swiss canton of Bern
- Arch 22, a commemorative arch in The Gambia
- Arch Coal, an American coal mining and processing company
- Arch form, a sectional structure for a piece of music
- Arch Linux, a Linux distribution founded by Judd Vinet that emphasizes simplicity
- Arches of the foot, a part of human feet
- GNU arch, in software, a source code management tool
- Natural arch, a rock form with a naturally occurring passageway
- The Arch (Hong Kong), a residential skyscraper in Kowloon, Hong Kong
- The protein archaerhodopsin-3, a light-driven proton pump used for research in optogenetics, a technology for controlling brain activity using light (Nature 463 p98).
- Inverted breve, a diacritic sign
- arch-, prefix derived from the Greek archon, which means "higher in hierarchy".[1]
- Joseph Arch (1826 – 1919), English politician
ARCH may refer to:
- Action on Rights for Children, a nonprofit children’s rights organisation in the U.K.
- Autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity, a time series regression model of the standard deviation (volatility) of a financial time series
- ARCH+, German magazine
Arches is the plural of arch, an architectural structure. It may also refer to:
- Arches (Lerdahl) (2011), composition by Fred Lerdahl
- Arches Cluster, a massive, young, cluster of stars
- Arches of the foot
- Arches paper
- SS Arches, original name of the SS English Trader
Places
- Arches, Cantal, a commune of the Cantal département, in France
- Arches, Vosges, a commune of the Vosges département, in France
- Arches National Park in the U.S. state of Utah
See also
- Archery (Shooting arrows using a bow)
- Archway (disambiguation)
- Arch Rock (disambiguation)
- Arc (disambiguation)