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Facet

A little face; a small, plane surface; as, the facets of a diamond.

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Characteristic 76% connected

Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; di…

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Feature 76% connected

The make, form, or outward appearance of a person; the whole turn or style of the body; esp., good appearance.

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Sector 76% connected

A part of a circle comprehended between two radii and the included arc.

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Side 76% connected

The margin, edge, verge, or border of a surface; especially (when the thing spoken of is somewhat oblong in shape), one of the longer edges as distin…

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Sphere 76% connected

A body or space contained under a single surface, which in every part is equally distant from a point within called its center.

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Surface 76% connected

The exterior part of anything that has length and breadth; one of the limits that bound a solid, esp. the upper face; superficies; the outside; as, t…

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Aspect 92% connected

The act of looking; vision; gaze; glance.

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Affront verb · 78% connection

To front; to face in position; to meet or encounter face to face.

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Brilliant adjective · 78% connection

A diamond or other gem of the finest cut, formed into faces and facets, so as to reflect and refract the light, by which it is rendere…

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Carbon noun · 78% connection

An elementary substance, not metallic in its nature, which is present in all organic compounds. Atomic weight 11.97. Symbol C. it is c…

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Carbonado noun · 78% connection

A black variety of diamond, found in Brazil, and used for diamond drills. It occurs in irregular or rounded fragments, rarely distinct…

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Carbuncle noun · 78% connection

deep-red cabochon garnet cut without facets

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Cleavage noun · 78% connection

The quality possessed by many crystallized substances of splitting readily in one or more definite directions, in which the cohesive a…

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Confront verb · 78% connection

To put face to face; to cause to face or to meet; as, to confront one with the proofs of his wrong doing.

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Crown noun · 78% connection

The upper range of facets in a rose diamond.

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Diamond adjective · 78% connection

Resembling a diamond; made of, or abounding in, diamonds; as, a diamond chain; a diamond field.

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Doop noun · 78% connection

A little copper cup in which a diamond is held while being cut.

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Draff noun · 78% connection

A narrow border worked to a plane surface along the edge of a stone, or across its face, as a guide to the stone-cutter.

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Face noun · 78% connection

Presence; sight; front; as in the phrases, before the face of, in the immediate presence of; in the face of, before, in, or against th…

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Faceted adjective · 78% connection

Having facets.

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Horizon noun · 78% connection

A plane passing through the eye of the spectator and at right angles to the vertical at a given place; a plane tangent to the earth's…

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Hyperbola noun · 78% connection

A curve formed by a section of a cone, when the cutting plane makes a greater angle with the base than the side of the cone makes. It…

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Indicatrix noun · 78% connection

A certain conic section supposed to be drawn in the tangent plane to any surface, and used to determine the accidents of curvature of…

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Infield noun · 78% connection

The diamond; -- opposed to outfield. See Diamond, n., 5.

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Little adjective · 78% connection

Small in size or extent; not big; diminutive; -- opposed to big or large; as, a little body; a little animal; a little piece of ground…

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