Crossword clues for facet
facet
- Feature in newspaper is great!
- Distinct feature, as of a problem
- Smooth gem surface
- Gem's cut surface
- Cut gem feature
- Cut gem face
- Surface of a diamond
- Small plane surface of a cut gem
- Side to be considered
- Side of an issue or a diamond
- Side of a prism
- Side of a cut gem
- Sapphire side
- Rhinestone surface
- Peridot's plane
- Part of a gem
- Part of a cut gem
- Gem's plane
- Feature of a cut gemstone
- Feature of a cut gem
- Emerald side
- Diamond cutter's creation
- Cut gemstone feature
- Cut diamond's feature
- Aspect — smooth cut surface
- Any of a gemstone's flat sides
- about the drug lord Tony Montana / Aspect
- Diamond side
- Side of a gemstone
- Aspect of a problem
- Gem surface
- Diamond plane
- Rhinestone feature
- Side of a diamond
- Jeweler's creation
- A distinct feature or element in a problem
- A smooth surface (as of a bone or cut gemstone)
- A cabochon lacks this
- Phase or aspect
- Diamond surface
- Diamond part
- Gem side
- Sparkler part
- Gem's polished surface
- Plane surface
- Diamond feature
- Aspect of a personality
- Part of a cut gemstone
- Gemstone surface
- Gem feature
- Aspect ultimately tiresome, in truth
- Newspaper covers one aspect
- Flat surface on a cut gem
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Facet \Fac"et\, n. [F. facette, dim. of face face. See Face.]
A little face; a small, plane surface; as, the facets of a diamond. [Written also facette.]
(Anat.) A smooth circumscribed surface; as, the articular facet of a bone.
(Arch.) The narrow plane surface between flutings of a column.
(Zo["o]l.) One of the numerous small eyes which make up the compound eyes of insects and crustaceans.
Facet \Fac"et\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Faceted; p. pr. & vb. n. Faceting.] To cut facets or small faces upon; as, to facet a diamond.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1620s, "one side of a multi-sided body," from French facette (12c., Old French facete), diminutive of face "face, appearance" (see face (n.)). The diamond-cutting sense is the original one. Transferred and figurative use by 1820. Related: Faceted; facets.
Wiktionary
n. 1 Any one of the flat surfaces cut into a gem. 2 One among many similar or related, yet still distinct things. 3 One of a series of things, such as steps in a project. 4 (context anatomy English) One member of a compound eye, as found in insects and crustaceans. 5 (context anatomy English) A smooth circumscribed surface. 6 (context architecture English) The narrow plane surface between flutings of a column. 7 (context mathematics English) A face of codimension 1 of a polytope. vb. To cut a facet into a gemstone.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Facets are flat faces on geometric shapes. The organization of naturally occurring facets was key to early developments in crystallography, since they reflect the underlying symmetry of the crystal structure. Gemstones commonly have facets cut into them in order to improve their appearance by allowing them to reflect light.
A facet is a flat surface of a geometric shape, e.g., of a cut gemstone.
Facet may also refer to:
- Facet (geometry), the formalization of the same notion
- Facet (psychology), a component of a personality trait
- Zygapophyseal joint, known as a facet joint, is a vertebral joint
- In faceted classification, an attribute of an item that can be used for navigation
- A part of a compound eye
Facets may refer to:
- Facets (album), an album by Jim Croce
- "Facets" (DS9 episode), an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
- Facets Multi-Media, a Chicago-area non-profit arts organization
- FACETS ("Fast Analog Computing with Emerging Transient States"), a neuroscience project
In geometry, a facet is a feature of a polyhedron, polytope, or related geometric structure, generally of dimension one less than the structure itself.
- In three-dimensional geometry a facet of a polyhedron is any polygon whose corners are vertices of the polyhedron, and is not a face.To facet a polyhedron is to find and join such facets to form the faces of a new polyhedron; this is the reciprocal process to stellation and may also be applied to higher-dimensional polytopes.
- In polyhedral combinatorics and in the general theory of polytopes, a facet of a polytope of dimension n is a face that has dimension n − 1. Facets may also be called (n − 1)-faces. In three-dimensional geometry, they are often called "faces" without qualification.
- A facet of a simplicial complex is a maximal simplex, that is a simplex that is not a face of another simplex of the complex. For simplicial polytopes this coincides with the meaning from polyhedral combinatorics.
In psychology, a facet is a specific and unique aspect of a broader personality trait. Both the concept and the term "facet" were introduced by Paul Costa and Robert McCrae in the first edition of the NEO-Personality Inventory (NEO-PI) Manual. Facets were originally elaborated only for the neuroticism, openness to experience, and extraversion traits; Costa and McCrae introduced facet scales for the agreeableness and conscientiousness traits in the Revised NEO-PI (NEO PI-R). Each of the Big Five personality traits in the Five Factor Model contains six facets, each of which is measured with a separate scale. The use of facets and facet scales has since expanded beyond the NEO PI-R, with alternative facet and domain structures derived from other models of personality. Examples include the HEXACO model of personality structure, psycholexical studies, circumplex models (e.g., Goldberg's Abridged Big-Five Dimensional Circumplex), the Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire (MPQ), and the California Psychological Inventory.
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.