A comune of its province, located at the southern entrance of the Strait of Messina, is to this day called 'Scaletta Zanclea'. In the early 5th century BC, Anaxilas of Rhegium renamed it Messene (Î¼ÎµÏÏÎ®Î½Î·) in honour of the Greek city Messene (Greek: Î¼ÎµÏÏÎ®Î½Î·).
Definition of Arc. An Arc is a curved line that is a part of a circle. An Arc is a part of the circumference of a circle.
A smooth arc is the graph of a continuous function whose. derivative is also continuous (so it does not have corner points). If the arc is just a straight line between two points of coordinates. (x1,y1), (x2,y2), its length can be found by the Pythagorean theorem: L =.