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Definitions: Facet |
FacetNoun1. A distinct feature or element in a problem; "he studied every facet of the question". 2. A smooth surface (as of a bone or cut gemstone). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "facet" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Chemistry | To cut or make facets upon; as, to facet a diamond. Source: European Union. (references) |
| One of the small plane surfaces produced on a diamond or other precious stone in cutting esp. to enhance its brillance and beauty. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Information | 1. an aspect under which a group of concepts may be looked at to have something general in common 2. in a faceted classification any one group of classes having certain common characteristics, constituting a category. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mechanical Engineering | The angular portion of a cutting blade immediately behind the cutting edge. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. One of the polished plane surfaces of a gemstone, cut so as to enhance the stone's brilliance and beauty. b. To cut facets. c. A nearly planar surface produced on a rock fragment by abrasion, as by wind sandblasting, by the grinding action of a glacier, or by a stream that differentially removes material from the upstream side of a boulder, cobble, or pebble inclined at 50 degrees or less to the direction of the impinging current. d. Asymmetrically scalloped rock surfaces. Syn:flute e. Any plane surface produced by erosion or faulting and intersecting a general slope of the land; e.g., a triangular facet. f. Any part of a landscape defined as a unit for geographic study on thebasis of homogeneous topography. (references) |
Public Administration | Attributes used to group concepts according to their nature. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
FACET | English | French and American Cooperation Entrepreneurship Technology | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: FacetSynonym: aspect (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Exteriority | Noun: exteriority; outside, exterior; surface, superficies; skin; (covering); superstratum; disk, disc; face, facet; extrados. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Facet |
| English words defined with "facet": aspect ♦ -et ♦ facet plane, Faceting, Facette. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "facet": cross classification, culet ♦ dependent facet ♦ facet classification, facet name ♦ if-needed facet ♦ laurel leaf ♦ main facets ♦ spur-end facet, star facet ♦ telescoped array. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | And there is no aspect, no facet, no moment of life that can't be improved with pizza. (Is It College Yet?; writing credit: Glenn Eichler; Peggy Nicoll) | |
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Economic History | Saudi Arabia | Financing is increasingly becoming an important facet of business dealings with Saudi Government agencies. (references) |
Luxembourg | As Luxembourg earns almost 90 percent of its GDP from foreign trade related activities, integration is a significant facet of its economy. (references) | |
Minorities | Burundi | State discrimination against Hutus, who constitute an estimated 85 percent of the population, affects every facet of society, but most strikingly higher education and certain branches of the Government such as the armed services and the judicial system. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Facet" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Facet" is used about 205 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 205 | 21,272 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "facet": dependent facet ♦ facet classification ♦ facet cup ♦ facet name ♦ facet plane. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "facet": quarter-facet. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
facet | 173 |
facet syndrome | 44 |
facet joint | 41 |
facet fuel pump | 40 |
facet video | 31 |
facet injection | 31 |
facet multimedia | 30 |
block facet | 29 |
disease facet | 21 |
facet injection joint | 19 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "facet"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | faqe guri të çmuar (pane), ventil, tipar (attribute, character, feature, lineament, point, property, trait), aspekt (aspect, bearing, complexion, light, visage). (various references) | |
Arabic | نتوء (bulge, bump, bunch, cusp, jut, knob, ledge, lump, nub, projection, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, salience, salient, shell, snag, spur, stick, stick up), وجيه (faced, notable, privileged, reputed, substantial, weighty, worthy), عدسة قرنية, السطيح مسطح صغير. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | фасетка, фасет, аспект (aspect, dimension). (various references) | |
Chinese | 小平面. (various references) | |
Czech | faseta, stránka (aspect, leaf, page, side), aspekt (aspect). (various references) | |
Danish | facet (bevel, flat, sloped edge), ægflanke. (various references) | |
Dutch | facet (bevel, facet name, flat, range, sloped edge), vlak facet, vlak (bottom, bottom plating, cant, cant of tumbler, even, exactly, flat, level, planar, plane, planking, sharp, side, side of a tumbler, smooth, tier), groepskenmerk. (various references) | |
Finnish | fasetti (bevel, flat, sloped edge). (various references) | |
French | facette (face, facet name, facies). (various references) | |
German | Facette (bevel, sloped edge). (various references) | |
Greek | όψη (aspect, complexion, countenance, elevation, face, guise, look, obverse, scene, semblance, sight, subscheme, view, visage). (various references) | |
Hebrew | שטח", פן (face, surface), אספקט (aspect, side), "בט (aspect). (various references) | |
Hungarian | csiszolt felület. (various references) | |
Indonesian | faset, gelombang (phase, surge, wave). (various references) | |
Italian | faccetta (pane). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 小面 , 切り子 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | きり", しょうめ" (facade, front, frontage, main). (various references) | |
Korean | 면 (Cotton). (various references) | |
Manx | gruaie (brow, cheek, face, grim countenance, profile, silhouette, temple). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | acetfay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | faceta (facetiael, flat), ante (in view of). (various references) | |
Romanian | faţetã (side), aspect (appearance, aspect, cast, character, complexion, conformation, figure, form, guise, look, person, phase, physiognomy, shape, similitude). (various references) | |
Russian | фаска (chamfer), фасетка, грань (edge, face, heel, margin, pane, plane, verge, vertice). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | gledište (aspect, observation point, slant, view, view point, viewpoint), brušenje, aspekt (aspect). (various references) | |
Spanish | faceta (angle, bezel, flat). (various references) | |
Swedish | fasett (bevel, flat, sloped edge). (various references) | |
Thai | เหลี่ยมมุม, เจียระไน, "้านมุมมอง. (various references) | |
Turkish | faseta, yön (aspect, bearings, channel, complexion, course, direction, directional, sense, trend, way), taraf (contractor, end, hand, member, part, party, side, way), görünüş (appearance, aspect, epiphany, face, look, mien, outlook, semblance, sight, spectacle), elmasın yontulmuş yüzü, elmas yontmak. (various references) | |
Ukranian | грань (border, border-land, margin, pane, plane), гранувати, аспект (aspect, bearing, complexion, phase, side, way). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | facies. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "facet": facete, faceted, facetely, facetiae, faceting, facetious, facetiously, facetiousness, facetiousnesses, facets, facetted, facetting. (additional references) | |
Words containing "facet": multifaceted. (additional references) | |
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"Facet" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acet, afsat, dacet, fabet, faca, facat, Faccetta, Faccio, faceit, facel, facent, faceo, facest, faceti, facex, facey, Fachen, Fachtna, facio, facist, facit, faco, Facom, Factel, facti, facue, faget, fakel, Fancott, fanet, Farcet, faret, faset, fasit, fasolt, fasset, fawcet, fayst, Fccset, Fcit, Fecit, Fekete, Fewcott, fibet, Fikret, fiset, flacit, Foccart, focet, Fossett, fraacht, fracht, Nacett, vacet, yacet. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "facet" (pronounced fa"sut) |
| 4 | -a" s u t | Basset, tacit. |
| 3 | -s u t | complicit, corset, cosset, deficit, dulcet, elicit, explicit, faucet, illicit, implicit, knesset, Lancet, russet, solicit. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-f-t" | |
-1 letter: cafe, cate, face, fact, fate, feat, feta, tace. | |
-2 letters: ace, act, aft, ate, cat, eat, eft, eta, fat, fet, tae, tea. | |
-3 letters: ae, at, ef, et, fa, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-f-t" | |
+1 letter: affect, facete, facets, faucet. | |
+2 letters: acetify, affects, catface, crafted, faceted, facture, falcate, faucets, fracted, furcate, outface, refract. | |
+3 letters: affected, affecter, artefact, artifice, beatific, califate, catfaces, conflate, craftier, defecate, facelift, facetely, facetiae, faceting, facetted, factored, factures, falcated, falconet, fanciest, fasciate, feracity, footpace, footrace, forecast, fracture, furcated, furcates, outfaced, outfaces, perfecta, postface, praefect, refracts, seacraft, trifecta, typeface. | |
+4 letters: acetified, acetifies, affecters, affecting, affection, affective, afflicted, affricate, aftercare, afterclap, afterdeck, artefacts, artificer, artifices, bifurcate, cafeteria, cafetoria, califates, catfishes, chaffiest, chieftain, cofeature, conflated, conflates, craftiest, craftsmen, defalcate, defecated, defecates, disaffect, effectual, fabricate, facecloth, facelifts, faceplate, facetious, facetting, factitive, factorage, factories, factorize, faculties, falconets, fasciated, fascinate, fecundate, fluctuate, footpaces, footraces, forcemeat, forecasts, fornicate, fortalice, fractured, fractures, fricative, fruitcake, infarcted, infracted, interface, laticifer, lightface, obfuscate, officiate, perfectas, postfaces, praefects, refracted, refractor, seacrafts, suffocate, tackified, tackifier, tackifies, teacupful, transfect, trifectas, tufaceous, typefaces, ventifact, whiteface. | |
+5 letters: acetifying, affectable, affectedly, affections, affectless, afflictive, affricates, aftercares, afterclaps, afterdecks, afterpiece, aftershock, artificers, backfitted, beachfront, benefactor, bifurcated, bifurcates, cafeterias, cafetorium, catafalque, catchflies, chieftains, clofibrate, cofavorite, cofeatured, cofeatures, confidante, confiscate, cotransfer, craftiness, defacement, defalcated, defalcates, defalcator, defecating, defecation, diffracted, disaffects, effacement, effectuate, efficacity, fabricated, fabricates, facecloths, facelifted, faceplates, facilitate, facilities, factorable, factorages, factorized, factorizes, fanaticize, farfetched, fascinated, fascinates, fecundated, fecundates, felicitate, feracities, fianchetti, fianchetto, flatulence, flatulency, flocculate, fluctuated, fluctuates, flycatcher, forcemeats, forecasted, forecaster, forecastle, fornicated, fornicates, fortalices, fractioned, fratricide, fricatives, fruitcakes, fugacities, hovercraft, interfaced, interfaces, laticifers, lightfaced, lightfaces, malefactor, maleficent, obfuscated, obfuscates, oceanfront, officiated, officiates, prefascist, refractile, refracting, refraction, refractive, refractors, refractory, sanctified, sanctifier, sanctifies, satchelful, spacecraft, stagecraft, statecraft, suffocated, suffocates, tackifiers, teacupfuls, teacupsful, tradecraft, trafficked, trafficker, transfects, trifurcate, tuffaceous, ultrafiche, unaffected, ventifacts, vociferant, vociferate, watercraft, whitefaces. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 61 63 65 74 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. .- -.-. . - |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01100001 01100011 01100101 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F a c e t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0061 0063 0065 0074 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4067697186 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Translations: Ancient 12. Abbreviations | 13. Acronyms 14. Derivations 15. Rhymes 16. Anagrams | 17. Orthography 18. Bibliography |
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