The human polyhedron has as many facets as a curiously-cut gem, and Vincent Farley's gift lay in the ability always to present the same side to the same person.
His attitude toward Ardea had always been a pose; but it was a pose maintained so faithfully that it had become one of the facets of the polyhedron.
The somewhat divergent cones and facetsof the insect's eye (Fig.
The answer to this question can only be found when it is remembered that there are thousands of these facets and cones giving thousands of spots of light.
Her abdomen will be twice as long, her colour more golden, and clearer; her sting will be curved, and her eyes have seven or eight thousandfacets instead of twelve or thirteen thousand.
They articulate uponfacets of the hinder outer corners of the basihyal.
The inner condyle, the intercondylar sulcus, and a portion only of its outer condyle, articulate with corresponding facets of the tibia.
For the record I shall state that the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy is investigating all facets of the shooting, including the medical treatment performed on President Kennedy.
I've picked up a bargain," he would say to himself as he leaned over the rail and watched the millions of tinyfacets of the sea reflecting the sunset.
She was conscious of both love and happiness as tangible facets of her existence.
For answer Leoni threw back his head and held one hand on high full in the light of the moon, which flashed and scintillated from the many facets of a brilliant gem.
If I were giving advice to a young fellow of talent, with two or three facets to his mind, I would tell him by all means to keep his wit in the background until after he had made a reputation by his more solid qualities.
It is from fresh-fallen snow alone that much inconvenience is felt; owing, I suppose, to the light reflected from the myriads of facets which the crystals of snow present.
As the sun rose, the light reflected from these myriads of facets had a splendid effect.
Cut an hundred facets on it an thou wilt; but if its falseness be found out, ere I will it, thou diest.
We will do the cutting of India whilst William Leedes facets yonder pigeon's egg Echebar wore in his turban.
The wonder, however, is, not that a searcher of such penetration as Pasteur should have discovered the facets of the tartrates, but that an investigator so powerful and experienced as Mitscherlich should have missed them.
On each occasion new facets were thus produced, and these new facetsshowed the kind of dissymmetry which the optical character demanded.
With regard to the discovery of crystalline facets in the tartrates, which has been dwelt upon by M.
It seems hardly possible that these facets could have any other origin except by transmission after being acquired by ages of use of sitting posture.
It appears they have facets on the bones, fitting them for the sitting posture.
They are made up of thousands of facets (a facet is just a small, plain surface) as many as thirty thousand facets in one eye.
It will show you all the tiny hairs on the body, and the little rings and the feelers and the facets of the eyes, and many another wonderful thing.
You remember, I told you about the thousands of facetsin the big eyes of the darning-needle?
I apprehend filing would be difficult, and the facets would have to be made by a rose cutter or mill; but if the discs are fairly round, then, in fact, no facets are required.
In the case of a small disc it is sufficient to polish two or three facets on the edge, and to examine the glass in a field of uniform illumination through the windows thus formed.
The facets being ready, the glass discs are cemented to them by centering cement, which may be used quite generally for small lenses.
When the cutting of facets has been omitted on a concave surface, the best cement is hard pitch.
The compound eye in the fly is made up of vast numbers of six-sided eyes crowded together, appearing under a glass like a honeycomb; yet each of these facets is a complete eye.
At times one known as Podocerus builds a singular nest for its better security, and one of the giants of the tribe has eyes so huge that they are made up of facets and entirely cover the head.
The eyes are compound and simple, made up of many facets (Fig 219).
No other thing can scratch or mar the polished facets and sharp corners of the diamond.
From this beginning cutters gradually added additional facets to increase the brilliancy until there were thirty-four in all.
In a perfectly cut diamond, the facets are so carefully arranged that entering rays of light jump from wall to wall of this transparent enclosure and emerge again at the very point of entry.
Illustration] Diamonds are so brilliant, the radiance from the facets so bewildering to the eye, that the flaws cannot be seen by the human eye unless the imperfection is pronounced and at the top surface of the diamond.
The fifty-eight facets are cut and polished one at a time on a rapidly-revolving wheel charged with diamond dust and oil.
The whole is a magnitude of many facets (little faces).
The intellectuality is designed to deal with facets of truth; it is made to manipulate segments, parts, fractions, and cannot chart its way through a continuum such as reality.
Logic, therefore, deals with the symbolism existing between and among facetsof truth, and not directly with truth itself, although the conclusions reached by the logicians may be true enough from an intrinsic standpoint.
The stars which owe their light to suns are so many facets of sunlight.
In the large eyes the facetsare very distinct and suitable for examination.
The packing of the eyes together gives rise to their angular form or their straight sides, each of the little surfaces or facets being hexagonal, or bounded by six sides (fig.
Were these then projections of her personality--aspects and facets of her divided self--emanations now withdrawn?
The colour of Steel is darker than that of Iron, and the facets which appear on breaking it are smaller.
This star is nothing but a particular disposition of the parts of the Antimony, which have the property of running naturally into facets and needles.
It is very convenient, too, for illustrating those theories of the preface, as for example, that the business of the poet is "the right appreciation of such facets of our own day as God will let us perceive .
Perhaps it tries to include too many facets of life--or death; perhaps we get a slight impression as regards technique that the poet is consciously experimenting; and there is a shade of morbidity haunting it.
The bezel facets are mathematically correct to the minutest fraction--thirty-three, including the table.
You identify that as the Koh-i-noor, of course, by a slight inaccuracy in one of the facets adjoining the collet.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "facets" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
