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

These and other early simulations showed that the unusual, sometimes spectacular features highlighted by Arp and others could be explained solely by gravitational interactions.

From Scientific American • Nov. 16, 2021

You could even throw Brancusi in there or Jean Arp or Henry Moore.”

From New York Times • May 31, 2020

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