Used in a Sentence

figuration

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for figuration.

Editorial note

At any reasonable scale you typically wouldn’t use plain DNS if you have to do that kind of figuration.

Examples11
Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

The act of giving figure or determinate form.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of figuration gathered in one view.

noun

The act of giving figure or determinate form.

noun

Form, outline or boundaries.

noun

Ornamentation or decoration, especially by the addition of figures.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for figuration.

noun

The act of giving figure or determinate form.

noun

Form, outline or boundaries.

noun

Ornamentation or decoration, especially by the addition of figures.

noun

Mixture of concords and discords.

Example sentences

1

At any reasonable scale you typically wouldn’t use plain DNS if you have to do that kind of figuration.

2

Furthermore, his early and mid-period music is dominated by the kinds of themes and figuration you'd expect from a professional piano noodler.

3

The cost of living in the Bay Area is -- and I say this with no figuration -- frightening.

4

As I'm not Christian, and my own culture also prefers art without human or divine figuration, I absolutely love Muslim art.

5

When the kernel’s device autocon- figuration subsystem calls the ugenhc driver to probe the device, the ugenhc driver tries to open /dev/ugen on the host.

6

(It’s actually more like a 10% for the purposes of the study he cites.) I refer back to Occupy’s figuration for two reasons.

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Were Islam to keep on growing (I do personally think it's more on the decline), I think we could expect interesting outcomes, artistically speaking, as Muslims visual arts, because they tend to shy away from figuration, are somewhat orthogonal to Western's forms.

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> Were Islam to keep on growing (I do personally think it's more on the decline), I think we could expect interesting outcomes, artistically speaking, as Muslims visual arts, because they tend to shy away from figuration, are somewhat orthogonal to Western's forms.

Quote examples

1

We found that it creates its con- figuration files on the user data partition in the folder “misc/wifi/”.

2

Har, "with no figuration" is a good substitute for old "literally".

3

Totally off-topic but considering the primary sense of `literally' is being figuratively eroded all around me, “with no figuration” might be the best option we'll end up with.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use figuration in a sentence?

At any reasonable scale you typically wouldn’t use plain DNS if you have to do that kind of figuration.

What does figuration mean?

The act of giving figure or determinate form.

What part of speech is figuration?

figuration is commonly used as noun.