facet

The word facet (from the French facet for "small diamond surface" and the Latin facies for "side", "front" or "face") stands for:

• small sanded surfaces on gemstones, glass etc. to create light effects, see cut (gemstone)
• part of the compound eye, see ommatidium
• a bevel on the edge of a print template, see facet (printing technology)
• the veneering of a tooth crown, see Veneer
• a side surface of an n-dimensional polytope, see Polytope (Geometry) #Convex Polytopes
• a property in the object orientation, see attribute (object)
• a description class in the documentation, see facet classification
• a (homogeneous) content area of personality traits , which is delimited during the design and analysis of methods
• a ground surface of a cutting edge, see cut (cutting edge)

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Wiktionary: Facet  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

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