arrow An arrow is a fin-stabilized projectile launched by a bow. A typical arrow usually consists of a long, stiff, straight shaft with a weighty (and usually sharp and pointed) arrowhead attached to the front end, multiple fin-like stabilizers c ...

is a projectile launched from a bow. Arrow or arrows may also refer to:

Symbols

Arrow (symbol) An arrow is a graphical symbol, such as ← or →, or a pictogram, used to point or indicate direction. In its simplest form, an arrow is a triangle, chevron, or concave kite, usually affixed to a line segment or rectangle, and in more co ...

↑ (disambiguation) The symbol ↑, an upward pointing arrow, also called up arrow, uparrow, or upwards arrow, may refer to: Notation * ↑, a mathematical symbol for "undefined" * ↑, a notation of Knuth's up-arrow notation for very large integers * ↑, a mathemat ...

→ (disambiguation) → or -> may refer to: * one of the arrow symbols, characters of Unicode * one of the arrow keys, on a keyboard * →, >, representing the assignment operator in various programming languages * ->, a Pointer operator in C and C++ where a->b i ...

↓ (disambiguation) The arrow symbol ↓ may refer to: * The downward direction, a relative direction * The keyboard cursor control key, an arrow key * A downwards arrow, a Unicode arrow symbol * Logical NOR, operator which produces a result that is the negation of ...

** ← (disambiguation)

Places

* Arrow, Kentucky *

Arrow, Warwickshire Arrow is a village in the Stratford-on-Avon district of Warwickshire, England. Together with the entirely rural hamlet of Weethley, it forms since 1 April 2004 the civil parish of Arrow with Weethley. The parish lies midway between Redditch and ...

, England * Arrow River (New Zealand) *

River Arrow, Wales The River Arrow ( cy, Afon Arwy) is a river in the Welsh Marches, rising in Powys in Wales, then flowing into the English county of Herefordshire. It rises near Gwaunceste Hill, then flows south-east through Newchuch and Michaelchurch-on- ...

River Arrow, Worcestershire The River Arrow is a tributary of the River Avon, which flows through Worcestershire and Warwickshire in the English Midlands. Course The Arrow rises on Beacon Hill in the Lickey Hills Country Park in the Lickey Hills in the north of Worces ...

, England

People

Arrow (musician) Alphonsus Celestine Edmund Cassell MBE (16 November 1949 – 15 September 2010) was a Montserratian calypso and soca musician, regarded as the first superstar of soca from Montserrat.Thompson, Dave (2002) "Reggae & Caribbean Music", Backbeat ...

(1949–2010), calypso and soca musician *

Gilbert John Arrow Gilbert John Arrow (20 December 1873 London- 5 October 1948) was an English entomologist. Gilbert was the son of John Garner Arrow of Streatham, London. He initially trained as an architect but took an interest in insects from 1896 during which ...

(1873–1948), English entomologist *

Kenneth Arrow Kenneth Joseph Arrow (23 August 1921 – 21 February 2017) was an American economist, mathematician, writer, and political theorist. He was the joint winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with John Hicks in 1972. In economics ...

(1921–2017), American economist, joint winner of the 1972 Nobel Prize in Economics

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional entities

Arrow (comics) The Arrow is a fictional superhero created during the Golden Age of Comic Books. He was the first superhero published by Centaur Publications. The character first appeared in 1938 in ''Funny Pages'' #21 (numbered vol. 2, #10; dated September 1938 ...

, a superhero character, first appearing in 1938 * The Arrow, a fictional location, the first

Dharma Initiative The Dharma Initiative, also written DHARMA (Department of Heuristics and Research on Material Applications), is a fictional research project and organization featured in the television series ''Lost''. It was introduced in the second season epis ...

station in the television series ''

Lost Lost may refer to getting lost, or to: Geography *Lost, Aberdeenshire, a hamlet in Scotland * Lake Okeechobee Scenic Trail, or LOST, a hiking and cycling trail in Florida, US History *Abbreviation of lost work, any work which is known to have bee ...

'' *Arrow, a character from Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie.

Music

Groups and labels

Arrows (Australian band) Arrows were an Australian band from Brisbane, Queensland formed in August 2006. The band has released two albums, an EP and two split releases. The line-up consists of Anthony Morgan (guitars, keyboard, vocals), Carl Burnett (bass) Anders Cai ...

, indie rock band established 2006 *

Arrows (British band) The Arrows were a band based in London, England. The group, which formed in 1974 and disbanded in 1977, included American singer/bassist Alan Merrill, American guitarist Jake Hooker and English drummer Paul Varley (original drummer Clive Wil ...

, 1970s Anglo-American glam rock-pop band * Delphian Complex, UK alternative band now known as Arrows *

The Arrow (band) The Arrow (previously known as Black Arrow) are a heavy metal band from Moscow, Russia. The band was founded in 1994 by Pavel Blischenko, the only member who has remained during the frequent line-up changes. The Arrow released a demo and three ...

, Russian heavy metal band *

The Arrows (Canadian band) The Arrows was a Canadian new wave band active during the 1980s (and not to be confused with the British band Arrows. Biography The Arrows were formed in 1981 by vocalist Dean McTaggart, the group's only consistent member. They recorded a sing ...

, a 1980s new wave band * The Arrows, a South African

indie rock Indie rock is a Music subgenre, subgenre of rock music that originated in the United States, United Kingdom and New Zealand from the 1970s to the 1980s. Originally used to describe independent record labels, the term became associated with the mu ...

band * The Arrows, the backing group of guitarist

Davie Allan Davie Allan is an American guitarist best known for his work on soundtracks to various teen and biker movies in the 1960s. Allan's backing band is almost always the Arrows (i.e., Davie Allan & the Arrows), although the Arrows have never had a st ...

Albums

* ''Arrow'' (Heartless Bastards album), 2012 * ''Arrows'' (Stonegard album), 2006 * ''Arrows'' (The Lonely Forest album), 2011

Songs

* "Arrow" (Gackt song), 2015 * "Arrow", a song by Candlebox from their eponymous debut album ''

Candlebox Candlebox is an American rock band from Seattle, Washington. Since its formation in 1990, the group has released seven studio albums, several charting singles, a compilation, and a CD+DVD. Candlebox found immediate success with the release of ...

'' * "Arrows" (song), 2014 song by Fences featuring Macklemore and produced by Ryan Lewis * "Arrows", a song by Fireworks from their 2011 album ''

Gospel Gospel originally meant the Christian message ("the gospel"), but in the 2nd century it came to be used also for the books in which the message was set out. In this sense a gospel can be defined as a loose-knit, episodic narrative of the words an ...

Periodicals

* ''The Arrow'' (newspaper), an Australian newspaper published between 1896 and 1933 * ''The Arrow'', a British newsletter in the 1930s, edited in 1939 by

Frederick Augustus Voigt Frederick Augustus Voigt (9 May 1892 – 8 January 1957) was a British journalist and author of German descent, most famous for his work with the ''Manchester Guardian'' and his opposition to dictatorship and totalitarianism on the European Conti ...

Radio

Arrow (radio format) Arrow is an American brand name radio format that plays classic rock from the 1970s through the 1990s. The format was popular in a number of markets in the 1990s and 2000s. The word "Arrow" is an extended acronym for "All Rock and Roll Oldies". Hi ...

, playing 1970s era classic rock * 90.7 Arrow Jazz FM, Dutch jazz radio station * ''94.5 The Arrow'', Florida radio station, see

WARO WARO is a commercial radio station located in Fort Myers, Florida, licensed to Naples, Florida, broadcasting to the Fort Myers/Naples area on 94.5 FM. WARO airs a classic rock music format branded as "94.5 The Arrow". The station previously broa ...

* ''91.9 The Arrow'', New York radio station, see WSHR *

Arrow Classic Rock Arrow Classic Rock is a Dutch radio station, that plays classic rock and some modern rock. Arrow Classic Rock broadcasts on FM and is also receivable via cable, all nationwide. Owned by Ad Ossendrijver and Willem van Kooten, the station started br ...

, Dutch rock radio station *

Arrow FM (Hastings) More Radio Hastings, formerly Arrow FM, is an Independent Local Radio station serving Hastings, Bexhill, Battle and surrounding areas. It is owned and operated by Total Sense Media and broadcasts from studios in Worthing, as part of a network ...

, UK *

The Arrow (radio) The Arrow was a British digital radio station playing classic and contemporary rock music. It broadcast on DAB Digital Radio (in London) and was also streamed over digital satellite TV and online. The station was operated by Global; prior to Gl ...

, a former digital radio station in the United Kingdom

Television

* ''Arrow'' (TV series), a 2012 television series about the fictional comic book superhero, Green Arrow * ''Arrows'' (TV series), the Arrows pop band's 1976-7 weekly ITV TV series * ''The Arrow'' (miniseries), a 1996 Canadian television miniseries * "Arrow" (''Smallville''), an episode of the TV series ''Smallville''

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

Arrow Books Random House is an American book publisher and the largest general-interest paperback publisher in the world. The company has several independently managed subsidiaries around the world. It is part of Penguin Random House, which is owned by Germ ...

, an imprint of Random House * ''

War of the Arrows ''War of the Arrows'' (), alternately titled ''Arrow: The Ultimate Weapon'', is a 2011 South Korean period action film starring Park Hae-il, Ryu Seung-ryong and Moon Chae-won. Set after the Second Manchu invasion of Korea (Qing invasion), the fil ...

'', or ''Arrow: The Ultimate Weapon'', a 2011 South Korean film

Brands and enterprises

* Arrow (liqueur), a brand of alcoholic beverage *

Arrow (motorcycle part manufacturer) Arrow Special Parts is an Italian motorcycle exhaust system manufacturer founded in 1985. History Arrow was founded in 1985 in Italy by Giorgio Giannelli to make high performance exhaust systems. The company's first association with motorsports ...

, Arrow Special Parts, an Italian motorcycle exhaust manufacturer * Arrow, a brand of shirts and collars made notable in the early 20th century in ads with

The Arrow Collar Man The Arrow Collar Man was the name given to the various male models who appeared in advertisements for shirts and detachable shirt collars manufactured by Cluett Peabody & Company of Troy, New York. The original campaign ran from 1905–31, tho ...

Arrow Air Arrow Air was a passenger and cargo airline based in Building 712 on the grounds of Miami International Airport (MIA) in an unincorporated area of Miami-Dade County, Florida. At different times over the years, it operated over 90 weekly schedul ...

, airline *

Arrow Aircraft and Motors Arrow Aircraft and Motor Corporation was an American aircraft manufacturer based in Havelock, Nebraska in the 1920s and 1930s. It built a variety of light sporting aircraft. History The Arrow Aircraft Corporation founded on 27 March 1926 in Ha ...

, an American aircraft manufacturer of the 1920s and 1930s * Arrow Aircraft Ltd., a British aircraft manufacturer of the 1930s *

Arrow Dynamics Arrow Dynamics was an American manufacturing and engineering company that specialized in designing and building amusement park rides, especially roller coasters. Based in Clearfield, Utah, the company was the successor to Arrow Development (194 ...

, an American roller coaster manufacturer, extant 1943–2002 *

Arrow Electronics Arrow Electronics is an American ''Fortune'' 500 company headquartered in Centennial, Colorado. The company specializes in distribution and value added services relating to electronic components and computer products. The company was ranked N ...

, an American electronics company founded in 1935 *

Arrow Films Arrow Films is a British independent film distributor and restorer specialising in world cinema, arthouse, horror and classic films. It sells Ultra HD Blu-rays, Blu-rays and DVDs online, and also operates its own subscription video on-dema ...

, an independent UK film distributor *

Arrow Film Corporation Arrow Film Corporation was an American film production and distribution company during the silent era from 1915 to 1926. An independent company it operated alongside the established studios. Originally formed to supply films for Pathé Exchang ...

, a US silent film studio *

Arrow SNC Arrow SNC was an Italian aircraft engine Aerospace manufacturing, manufacturer based in Piacenza. The company specialized in the design and manufacture of two-stroke engines for ultralight and homebuilt aircraft. The company is no longer in bus ...

, an Italian aircraft engine manufacturer *

Arrow Supermarkets Arrow Supermarkets was an Australian supermarket chain, which operated until the early 1990s. Arrow was marketed as a discount supermarket and were often located in neighbourhood shopping centres also incorporating shops such as Target discoun ...

, an Australian supermarket chain, extant until the early 1990s

Computing

Arrow (computer science) In computer science, arrows or bolts are a type class used in programming to describe computations in a pure and declarative fashion. First proposed by computer scientist John Hughes as a generalization of monads, arrows provide a referentially ...

, a more general interface to computation than monads *

Arrows (Unicode block) Arrows is a Unicode block containing line, curve, and semicircle symbols terminating in barbs or arrows. Block Emoji The Arrows block contains eight emoji: U+2194–U+2199 and U+21A9–U+21AA. The block has sixteen standardized variants de ...

, a Unicode block containing line, curve, and semicircle symbols terminating in barbs or arrows

Physics

Arrow of time The arrow of time, also called time's arrow, is the concept positing the "one-way direction" or " asymmetry" of time. It was developed in 1927 by the British astrophysicist Arthur Eddington, and is an unsolved general physics question. This ...

, a physics concept * ARROW waveguide, an anti-resonant reflecting optical waveguide

Transportation

Aircraft

Avro Arrow The Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow was a delta-winged interceptor aircraft designed and built by Avro Canada. The CF-105 held the promise of Mach 2 speeds at altitudes exceeding and was intended to serve as the Royal Canadian Air Force's (RCAF) ...

, a prototype Canadian supersonic fighter-interceptor cancelled in 1959 *

FreeX Arrow The FreeX Arrow is a German single-place, paraglider that was designed and produced by FreeX of Egling Egling is a municipality in the district of Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen in Bavaria Bavaria ( ; ), officially the Free State of Bavaria ...

, a German paraglider design *

Dornier Do 335 The Dornier Do 335 ''Pfeil'' ("Arrow") was a heavy fighter built by Dornier for Germany during World War II. The two-seater trainer version was called ''Ameisenbär'' ("anteater"). The ''Pfeil''s performance was predicted to be better than other ...

, an experimental Nazi heavy fighter *

Piper PA-28 The Piper PA-28 Cherokee is a family of two-seat or four-seat light aircraft built by Piper Aircraft and designed for flight training, air taxi and personal use.Plane and Pilot: ''1978 Aircraft Directory'', pages 62–64. Werner & Werner Corp, ...

, "Arrow", a retractable gear variant of the Piper Aircraft PA-28 "Cherokee" *

Spartan Arrow The Spartan Arrow is a British two-seat biplane aircraft of the early 1930s, built by Spartan Aircraft Limited. History Built as a successor to the company's first design the Simmonds Spartan, the Arrow was a two-seat biplane with a spruce a ...

, a 1930s British biplane * Thorp Arrow, an American light aircraft design

Automobiles

Whitmore Arrow The Arrow was a cyclecar marketed as a light car manufactured in M.C. Whitmore Co, Dayton, Ohio, in 1914. The Arrow had a four-cylinder,1 ½ liter water-cooled engine, and sold for $395. References

;Notes ;Bibliography * Cyclecars Defun ...

, a 1914 cyclecar from Detroit, Michigan *

Arrows Grand Prix International Arrows Grand Prix International was a British Formula One team active from to . It was known as Footwork from 1991 to 1996. Origins The Arrows Grand Prix International team was founded in Milton Keynes, England in November 1977, by Italian ...

, a former Formula One racing team *

Rootes Arrow Rootes Arrow was the manufacturer's name for a range of cars produced under several badge-engineered marques by the Rootes Group (later Chrysler Europe) from 1966 to 1979. It is amongst the last Rootes designs, developed with no influence from fu ...

, a range of cars from the British Rootes Group from 1967 to 1976, commonest being the Hillman Hunter *

Pierce-Arrow The Pierce-Arrow Motor Car Company was an American motor vehicle manufacturer based in Buffalo, New York, which was active from 1901 to 1938. Although best known for its expensive luxury cars, Pierce-Arrow also manufactured commercial trucks ...

, an American automobile * Plymouth Arrow, a Chrysler import, 1976–1980 * Project Arrow, a Canadian electric vehicle project

Missiles and rockets

Arrow (Israeli missile) The Arrow or ''Hetz'' ( he , חֵץ, ) is a family of anti-ballistic missiles designed to fulfill an Israeli requirement for a missile defense, missile defense system that would be more effective against ballistic missiles than the MIM-104 Patrio ...

, an Israeli anti-ballistic missile system * Arrow (Russian missile), an air-to-air missile * "Arrow" or

Strela (rocket) Strela (russian: Стрела, ''arrow'') is a Russian orbital carrier rocket, derived from the Soviet/Russian UR-100NU missile. It conducted its maiden test launch on 5 December 2003, carried its first functional payload on 27 June 2013, and a s ...

, Russian orbital launch rocket

Rail

* Amtrak Arrow Reservation System, used by Amtrak employees for passenger train reservations *

Arrow (rail line) Arrow is a hybrid rail (light rail with some features similar to commuter rail) line in San Bernardino County, California, United States. Opened on October 24, 2022, the line runs from the San Bernardino Transit Center in Downtown San Bernardino ...

, a hybrid rail line in San Bernardino County, California, United States * ''Arrow'' (MILW train), an American Midwestern route that ran until the mid-1960s *

Arrow (railcar) The Jersey Arrow is a type of electric multiple unit (EMU) railcar developed for the Pennsylvania Railroad, and used through successive commuter operators in New Jersey, through to NJ Transit. Three models were built, but only the third model is ...

, a railroad car of the Pennsylvania Railroad *

IE 2600 Class The 2600 Class is a type of Diesel Multiple Unit operated on the Rail transport in Ireland, Irish railway network by Iarnród Éireann, used mainly for short-haul Commuter (Irish Rail), Commuter services. They sometimes operate Cork to Dublin ser ...

, also known as Arrow, a railcar of Irish Rail *

IE 2700 Class The 2700 and 2750 Classes (nicknamed "Sparrows" panish Arrows were two related types of diesel multiple unit operated by Iarnród Éireann. The 2700 Class units were 2-car sets; 25 cars were built by GEC Alsthom in 1997 and 1998, and began en ...

, also known as Arrows, a railroad car of Iarnród Éireann

Ships

* ''Arrow'' (barque), built in 1902 for the Anglo-American Oil Co Ltd. * ''Arrow'', a New Zealand company sailing ship, the first enter Nelson Harbour, New Zealand * ''Arrow'', a Chinese-owned lorcha, whose detainment triggered the

Second Opium War The Second Opium War (), also known as the Second Anglo-Sino War, the Second China War, the Arrow War, or the Anglo-French expedition to China, was a colonial war lasting from 1856 to 1860, which pitted the British Empire and the French Emp ...

** The ''Arrow'' Incident, a diplomatic crisis in 1856 that led to the Arrow War, better known as the

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

Mathematics

* Arrow, the

lower limit topology In mathematics, the lower limit topology or right half-open interval topology is a topology defined on the set \mathbb of real numbers; it is different from the standard topology on \mathbb (generated by the open intervals) and has a number of in ...

on the real line * Arrow, representing a

morphism In mathematics, particularly in category theory, a morphism is a structure-preserving map from one mathematical structure to another one of the same type. The notion of morphism recurs in much of contemporary mathematics. In set theory, morphisms a ...

, linking objects in

category theory Category theory is a general theory of mathematical structures and their relations that was introduced by Samuel Eilenberg and Saunders Mac Lane in the middle of the 20th century in their foundational work on algebraic topology. Nowadays, cate ...

Other uses

* Arrow information paradox, on trading information *

Arrow's impossibility theorem Arrow's impossibility theorem, the general possibility theorem or Arrow's paradox is an impossibility theorem in social choice theory that states that when voters have three or more distinct alternatives (options), no ranked voting electoral syste ...

, on voting systems * The arrow paradox, one of

Zeno's paradoxes Zeno's paradoxes are a set of philosophical problems generally thought to have been devised by Greek philosopher Zeno of Elea (c. 490–430 BC) to support Parmenides' doctrine that contrary to the evidence of one's senses, the belief in pluralit ...

Arrow declaration In UK patent litigation, an Arrow declaration is a declaration or order sought, for reasons of legal certainty, from a court that a product (or process) to be launched was old (i.e., not novel) or obvious in patent law terms at a particular date, ...

, in UK patent litigation