The act of forming or bending into an arch shape; curving upward in an arc.
From Middle English 'arche,' from Old French 'arche,' from Latin 'arcus' (bow, arch). The '-ing' suffix creates the present participle form.
You see arching everywhere in nature—cats arching their backs, bridges spanning rivers—it's such a fundamental shape that it appears in both biology and architecture!
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