Arrow

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An arrow is a projectile launched from a bow.

Arrow or Arrows may also refer to:

Contents 1 → symbol 2 Companies 3 Geography 4 Media 4.1 Books 4.2 Comics 4.3 Music 4.4 Radio 4.5 Television 5 Missiles 6 People 7 Physics 8 Transportation 8.1 Aircraft 8.2 Automobiles 8.3 Horses 8.4 Rail 8.5 Ships 9 Other products 10 Other uses 11 See also

→ symbol

Arrow (symbol), e.g. →, indicating direction or movement, including:

• →, representing a vector in physics and mathematics.
• →, representing a material implication in logic
• →, representing the set of all mathematical functions that map from one set to another in set theory
• →, representing morphism in category theory
• →, representing the direction of a Chemical reaction

Companies

• Arrow Aircraft and Motors, an American aircraft manufacturer of the 1920s and 1930s
• Arrow Aircraft Ltd., a British aircraft manufacturer of the 1930s
• Arrow Dynamics, an American roller coaster manufacturer, extant 1943–2002
• Arrow Electronics, an American electronics company founded in 1935
• Arrow Supermarkets (Australia), an Australian supermarket chain, extant until the early 1990s
• Arrow (motorcycle part manufacturer), Arrow Special Parts, an Italian motorcycle exhaust manufacturer

Geography

• Arrow, Warwickshire, England
• River Arrow (Herefordshire), England
• River Arrow (Worcestershire), England

Media

Books

• The Arrow (newsletter), a British newsletter in the 1930s, edited in 1939 by Frederick Augustus Voigt
• Arrow Books, an imprint of Random House
• ARROW, Australian Research Repositories Online to the World, a digital repository project

Comics

• Arrow (comics), a superhero character, first appearing in 1938

Music

• The Arrows, 1970s Anglo-American pop band
• The Arrow (band), Russian heavy metal band
• Arrows (band), Australian indie band
• Arrows (UK band), UK alternative band
• Arrow (musician) (born 1954), stage name of Alphonsus Cassell, Caribbean soca artist

Radio

• Arrow (radio format), playing 1970s era classic rock
• The Arrow (radio), a digital radio station in the United Kingdom
• 90.7 Arrow Jazz FM, Dutch jazz radio station
• Arrow Classic Rock, Dutch rock radio station

Television

• Arrows (TV series), The Arrows pop band's weekly ITV TV series
• The Arrow, a Canadian television miniseries
• The Arrow, a fictional location, the first DHARMA Initiative station in the television show Lost

Missiles

• Arrow missile, an Israeli surface-to-air missile
• Arrow (Russian missile), an air-to-air missile

People

• Kenneth Arrow (born 1921), American economist, joint winner of the 1972 Nobel Prize in Economics
• Arrow (musician) (born 1954), stage name of Alphonsus Cassell, Caribbean soca artist

Physics

• Arrow of time, a physics concept
• ARROW waveguide, an anti-resonant reflecting optical waveguide

Transportation

Aircraft

• Spartan Arrow, a 1930s British biplane
• Thorp Arrow, an American light aircraft design
• Avro Arrow, a proposed Canadian supersonic fighter-interceptor plane cancelled in 1959

Automobiles

• Arrow (automobile), a 1914 cyclecar from Detroit, Michigan
• Pierce-Arrow, an American automobile
• Rootes Arrow, a range of cars from the British Rootes Group from 1967–76, commonest being the Hillman Hunter
• Arrows, a former Formula One racing team

Horses

• Arrow (horse), an eventing horse ridden by Bruce Davidson

Rail

• Amtrak Arrow Reservation System, used by Amtrak employees for passenger train reservations
• Arrow (passenger train), an American midwestern route that ran until the mid-1960s

Ships

• HMS Arrow, seven ships of the British Royal Navy and one of the Royal Australian Navy
• MS Arrow, a Seatruck Ferries ship

Other products

• Arrow, a brand of shirts and collars made notable in the early 20th century in ads with The Arrow Collar Man
• Arrow (liqueur), a brand of alcoholic beverage

Other uses

• Arrow Incident, a diplomatic crisis in 1856 that led to the Arrow War, better known as the Second Opium War
• Arrow's impossibility theorem on voting systems
• Arrows in functional programming, a more general interface to computation than monads
• Arrow information paradox on trading information
• The arrow paradox, one of Zeno's paradoxes

See also

• Golden Arrow (disambiguation)
• Red Arrow (disambiguation)
• Silver Arrow (disambiguation)
• Dan Henry another name for unique directional arrows for cycling routes

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