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Definition of Arcking
1. arc [v] - See also: arc
Lexicographical Neighbors of Arcking
Literary usage of Arcking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American and English Railroad Cases: A Collection of All Cases Affecting by Frank Cyrus Smith, Thomas Johnson Michie, United States Courts, Great Britain Courts, Canada Courts (1908)
"St. Louis Transit Co the full extent of the mill voltage turned on, it would be
more likely to produce arcking and a severe shock than if the conditions ..."
2. Author's & Printer's Dictionary: A Guide for Authors by Frederick Howard Collins (1912)
"-a*; abbr. arch. architect/, -ural, -ure; abbr. arch. arcking, not arc-. ARCM,
Associate of the Royal College of Music; ARCO, ditto Organists ; ARCS, ..."
3. Transactions by Institution of Civil Engineers London. Engineering conference, 1907 (1907)
"The switches for opening the circuits of such magnets present difficulties in
overcoming arcking due to the high self-induction, and the insulation of the ..."
4. Russia in Upheaval by Edward Alsworth Ross (1918)
"the peasants make pets of their pigs and cattle and that they keep many dogs.
If they work their horses hard, it is usually because they must. The arcking ..."
5. Internal-combustion Engines: Their Principles and Applications to Automobile by Wallace Ludwig Lind (1920)
"If this leakage were allowed to continue, the induced voltage would be lowered,
the breaker points would become badly pitted owing to the arcking, ..."
6. Harper's Wireless Book: How to Use Wireless Electricity in Telegraphing by Alpheus Hyatt Verrill (1913)
"Sometimes a reactance-coil is placed in circuit with an open-core transformer,
which prevents the spark from "arcking," which is the tendency of a spark to ..."
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