Usually means: Aspect or feature of something.
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We found 44 dictionaries that define the word facet:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. facet: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. facet: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. facet: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. facet: Collins English Dictionary
  5. facet: Vocabulary.com
  6. Facet, facet: Wordnik
  7. facet: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. facet: Wiktionary
  9. facet: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. facet: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. facet: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. facet: Dictionary.com
  13. facet: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. facet: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Facet (disambiguation), Facet (geometry), Facet (mathematics), Facet (psychology), Facet: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Facet: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. facet: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. facet: Rhymezone
  19. facet, facet (het): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. facet: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. facet: Free Dictionary
  22. facet: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. facet: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. facet: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Facet (anatomy), facet: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Facet: MedFriendly Glossary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  5. Neurotrauma Glossary (No longer online)
  6. facet: Medical dictionary
  7. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. FACET: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Facet: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. Mathematical Programming (No longer online)
  3. Fishkeeping glossary (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Entomology (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. facet: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Facet: Gems and Precious Stones
  2. Glossary of Diamonds (No longer online)

(Note: See faceted as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Any one of the flat surfaces cut into a gem.
noun:  One among many similar or related, yet still distinct things.
noun:  One of a series of things, such as steps in a project.
noun:  (anatomy) One member of a compound eye, as found in insects and crustaceans.
noun:  (anatomy) A smooth circumscribed surface.
noun:  (anatomy) Any of the small joints at each segment of the spine that provide stability and help guide motion
noun:  (architecture) The narrow plane surface between flutings of a column; a fillet.
noun:  (mathematics) A face of codimension 1 of a polytope.
noun:  (computing) A criterion that can be used to sort and filter, such as the colour or size of products in an online store.
verb:  To cut a facet into a gemstone.

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