Figuration

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The act of forming something into a particular shape.
  • n. A shape, form, or outline.
  • n. The act of representing with figures.
  • n. A figurative representation.
  • n. Music Ornamentation of a passage by embellishing and often repeating figures.
  • n. Music The pattern made by such embellishment or repetition.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The act of giving figure or determinate form; determination to a certain form.
  • n. Mixture of concords and discords.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act of giving figure or determinate form; determination to a certain form.
  • n. Mixture of concords and discords.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Formation as to figure or outline; external conformation; determination to a certain form: as, the figuration of crystals.
  • n. The act or process of figuring; a shaping into form, or a marking or impressing with a figure or figures.
  • n. In music: In strict composition, such as fugue-writing, the introduction of passing-notes into the counterpoint
  • n. In general composition, the process, act, or result of rhythmically, melodically, or contrapuntally varying or elaborating a theme by adding passing-notes or accompaniment figures, or even by transforming single tones into florid passages
  • n. The preparation of a figured bass (which see. under bass).
  • n. In phillol., change in the form of words without change of sense.
  • n. Figurative representation; prefiguration.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. representing figuratively as by emblem or allegory
  • n. decorating with a design
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