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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Arctic \Arc"tic\, adjective [OE. artik, OF. artique, F. arctique, L. arcticus, fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? a bear, also a northern constellation so called; akin to L. ursus bear, Skr. ?ksha.] Pertaining to, or situated under, the northern constellation called the Bear; northern; frigid; as, the arctic pole, circle, region, ocean; an arctic expedition, night, temperature.
Note: The arctic circle is a lesser circle, parallel to the equator, 23[deg] 28' from the north pole. This and the antarctic circle are called the polar circles, and between these and the poles lie the frigid zones. See {Zone}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Arctic \Arc"tic\, noun
1. The arctic circle.
2. A warm waterproof overshoe. [U.S.]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
Arctic
adjective
1: at or near the north pole [syn: {north-polar}]
2: of or relating to the Arctic; "Arctic circle"
3: extremely cold; "an arctic climate"; "a frigid day"; "gelid waters of the North Atlantic"; "glacial winds"; "icy hands"; "polar weather" [syn: {frigid}, {gelid}, {glacial}, {icy}, {polar}]
noun
1: the regions north of the Arctic Circle centered on the North Pole [syn: {Arctic Zone}, {North Frigid Zone}]
2: a waterproof overshoe that protects shoes from water or snow [syn: {galosh}, {golosh}, {rubber}, {gumshoe}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
151 Moby Thesaurus words for "arctic": Siberian, aestival, affectless, algid, anesthetized, antarctic, austral, autistic, autumn, autumnal, below zero, biting, bitter, bitterly cold, bleak, blunt, boreal, brisk, brumal, canicular, catatonic, chill, chilly, cold, cold as charity, cold as death, cold as ice, cold as marble, cold-blooded, coldhearted, cool, crisp, cutting, dispassionate, drugged, dull, east, eastbound, easterly, eastermost, eastern, easternmost, emotionally dead, emotionless, equinoctial, freezing, freezing cold, frigid, frosted, frosty, frozen, gelid, glacial, heartless, hibernal, hiemal, hyperborean, ice-cold, ice-encrusted, icelike, icy, immovable, impassible, impassive, inclement, inexcitable, insusceptible, keen, meridional, midsummer, midwinter, nipping, nippy, nonemotional, north, northbound, northeast, northeasterly, northeastern, northerly, northern, northernmost, northwest, northwesterly, northwestern, numbing, objective, obtuse, occidental, oriental, out of season, out of touch, passionless, penetrating, piercing, pinching, raw, rigorous, seasonal, self-absorbed, severe, sharp, sleety, slushy, snappy, solstitial, soulless, south, southbound, southeast, southeasterly, southeastern, southerly, southern, southernmost, southwest, southwesterly, southwestern, spiritless, spring, springlike, stone-cold, subzero, summer, summerlike, summerly, summery, supercooled, unaffectionate, unemotional, unfeeling, unimpassioned, unimpressionable, unloving, unpassionate, unresponding, unresponsive, unsusceptible, unsympathetic, untouchable, vernal, west, westbound, westerly, western, westernmost, winter, winterbound, winterlike, wintery, wintry
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
Arctic A {real-time} {functional language}, used for music synthesis. ["Arctic: A Functional Language for Real-Time Control", R.B. Dannenberg, Conf Record 1984 ACM Symp on LISP and Functional Prog, ACM]. (1995-01-16)
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