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noun
The act of giving figure or determinate form.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Form, outline or boundaries.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Ornamentation or decoration, especially by the addition of figures.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Mixture of concords and discords.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Representation through visual forms.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: art, arts
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noun
A structure through which people are joined, or the process of constructing such structures.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, sciences, social-science, sociology
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noun
decorating with a design
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: decoration
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representing figuratively as by emblem or allegory
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: representation
Narrower terms: symbolizing, symbolising
History
Late Middle English figuracion, from Middle French figuration, from Latin figūrō (“to form”). Equivalent to figurate + -ion.
