Arp

¹ American  

[ahrp] / ɑrp /

noun

1. Bill, pen name of Smith, Charles Henry.

2. Hans or Jean 1888?–1966, French painter and sculptor.

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ARP ² American  

1. Stock Exchange. adjustable-rate preferred.

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Arp British  

/ arp /

noun

1. Jean (ʒɑ̃) or Hans (hans). 1887– 1966, Alsatian sculptor, painter, and poet, cofounder of the Dada movement in Zürich, noted particularly for his abstract organic sculptures based on natural forms

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Example Sentences

Masson, like many of the most persuasive artists in “Dreamworld”—Picasso, Arp, André Kertész, Calder, Dorothea Tanning—engaged for a time with innovative Surrealist ideas but, evolving, didn’t forever worship at the altar of the absurd.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 27, 2025

INO opened its dome for sky calibration on 27 September and the next night imaged Arp 282, a pair of galaxies some 319 million light-years from Earth.

From Science Magazine • Oct. 19, 2022

The brand’s name is polysemic, deriving from the ARP 2600 modular synthesizer, the Greek word for harp and the work of the German French artist Jean Arp.

From New York Times • May 24, 2022

As Jean Arp once said, “My wife brandishes compass and ruler day and night,” and that is more than evident from the taut perfection of many of her best geometric designs.

From Washington Post • Dec. 31, 2021

Arp points to other cases in which a galaxy with a small red shift is flanked by two quasars of large and almost identical red shift.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan