simple arc

American  

noun

Mathematics.

1. a curve that does not cross itself and has no points missing; a curve that can be put into one-to-one correspondence with the closed interval from 0 to 1.

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Example Sentences

As a former denizen of academia and the business world, I’d also point out that the straightforward nature of a flight—takeoff, cruise, landing—lends itself to a blessedly simple arc of job satisfaction.

From Slate • May 31, 2016

Ponsoldt’s direction veers toward the conventionally bathetic, in exactly the same way that the script veers toward a simple arc of drama.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 5, 2015

On the south, topographic conditions made the margin depart from a simple arc.

From Climatic Changes Their Nature and Causes by Huntington, Ellsworth