Pixie and Arch
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (n.) A low creeping evergreen plant (Pyxidanthera barbulata), with mosslike leaves and little white blossoms, found in New Jersey and southward, where it flowers in earliest spring.
- (n.) An old English name for a fairy; an elf.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
noun
- A curved shape in the vertical plane that spans an opening.
- A curved bony structure supporting or enclosing organs (especially the inner sides of the feet. )
- A passageway under a curved masonry construction.
- usage: "they built a triumphal arch to memorialize their victory"
- synonyms: archway
- Architecture) a masonry construction (usually curved) for spanning an opening and supporting the weight above it. (
verb
adjective
- Used of behavior or attitude. ( characteristic of those who treat others with condescension)
- synonyms: condescending, patronizing, patronising
- Expert in skulduggery.
- usage: "an arch criminal"
- Naughtily or annoyingly playful.
- usage: "teasing and worrying with impish laughter"; "a wicked prank"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (n.) A flat arch is a member constructed of stones cut into wedges or other shapes so as to support each other without rising in a curve.
- (v.t.) To form or bend into the shape of an arch.
- (n.) A chief.
- (v.i.) To form into an arch; to curve.
- (n.) Any part of a curved line.
- (n.) Any place covered by an arch; an archway; as, to pass into the arch of a bridge.
- (a.) Cunning or sly; sportively mischievous; roguish; as, an arch look, word, lad.
- (v.t.) To cover with an arch or arches.
- (a.) Chief; eminent; greatest; principal.
- (n.) Usually a curved member made up of separate wedge-shaped solids, with the joints between them disposed in the direction of the radii of the curve; used to support the wall or other weight above an opening. In this sense arches are segmental, round (i. e., semicircular) or pointed.
- (n.) Any curvature in the form of an arch; as, the arch of the aorta.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
ARCH is Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity. It is a time series approach that models volatility as function of previous returns.