Facet

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. One of the flat polished surfaces cut on a gemstone or occurring naturally on a crystal.
  • n. Anatomy A small, smooth, flat surface, as on a bone or tooth.
  • n. Biology One of the lenslike visual units of a compound eye, as of an insect.
  • n. One of numerous aspects, as of a subject. See Synonyms at phase.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Any one of the flat surfaces cut into a gem.
  • n. One among many similar or related, yet still distinct things.
  • n. One of a series of things, such as steps in a project.
  • n. One member of a compound eye, as found in insects and crustaceans.
  • n. A face of codimension 1 of a polytope.
  • v. To cut a facet into a gemstone.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A little face; a small, plane surface.
  • n. A smooth circumscribed surface.
  • n. The narrow plane surface between flutings of a column.
  • n. One of the numerous small eyes which make up the compound eyes of insects and crustaceans.
  • v. To cut facets or small faces upon.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A little face; a small surface; specifically, in lapidary work, a small polished surface, usually of some geometrical form; one of the many variously shaped segments or faces into which the surface of a gem is broken in order to increase its brilliancy.
  • n. In architecture the fillet between the flutings of a column.
  • n. In anatomy, a smooth, flat, circumscribed articular surface of bone. See second cut under dorsal.
  • n. In entomology, the surface of an ocellus of the compound eye of an insect; also, an ocellus.
  • To cut a facet or facets upon: as, to facet a diamond.
  • n. A book; especially, a child's book of instruction; a primer.
  • n. In the embryo of Pentastomum, the circular thickening left on the detached integument at the site of the dorsal cone after the separation of the embryo from the integument. Also facette. Compare cervical cross.
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  • n. a smooth surface (as of a bone or cut gemstone)
  • n. a distinct feature or element in a problem
    • Verb Form
    faceted    faceting    facets    facetted    facetting   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    subfigure   
    Cross Reference
    double-skill facet    skill facet   
    Variant
    facetted    facetting    facette   
    Form
    faceted    faceting    multifaceted   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    face    templet    lozenge    table    cut    culet   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Cassatt    multifacet   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    shard    flaw    glitter    aspect    grouping    segment    ramification    complexity    speck   
     
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