A smooth surface (as of a bone or cut gemstone)

Usage examples of facet.

Textures rippled into visibility: a mottled striation of greens in the annelid segments, facets in the trilateral chameleon eyes.

In 1980 the Aquarian Conspiracy was in full swing and its success can be seen in every facet of our private and national life.

He saw, for one instant, the massive cliffs of ice glittering like volcanic glass in iron twilight and below them the beveled and faceted jewel face of a shallow antigrav dome closing in all the valley beneath.

A bland, phlegmatic smile hung on his brown face with its heavy-bearded cheeks, and he was buffing the facets of his bald head gently with the palms of both hands.

Smooth facets of buildings have given way to cobbly insides of concrete blasted apart, all the endless-pebbled rococo just behind the shuttering.

In the next, a true oddity, reading matter caught not in the facets of decagons but on supple wry-grass paper, lovingly handmade, bound with cor-tail thread, surrounded by covers fashioned from the speckled hides of razor-raptors, dyed hin-demuth, pebbled searay, even, astonishingly, perwillon.

He struggled with the strange mechanism of his mind which permitted ascension or descension into the strange facets of the universe.

An alliance of government and industry, unfettered by so-called ethicists and alleged Luddites, who want to push the envelope on all facets of creation.

The voice that answered was deeply resonant and set an overhead chandelier of a thousand faceted crystals to shivering.

Voyvodan chuckled deeply, setting faceted crystal all over the chamber to chiming.

Another statue, this of a panther, hung about the throat with strands of gold and pearl, and in another place, one of a wolf or an enormous dog, this hung with chains of silver and ice-blue faceted sapphires.

The trail curled off to one side, winding among the beautifully faceted ruins of a small city.

It was nothing to what would have happened if they had run innocently into the midst of the faceted city, where buildings were intelligent minerals who spoke among themselves in slow chords that dissolved organic intelligence with terrible thoroughness.

Even as her hair began to lift, seeking other energies to draw on, the faceted universe the Stones were building blurred.

The gem was much longer than it was thick, and rudely faceted around the edges.