Figuring
noun, verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Calculation. countable, uncountable
"Alternative figurings may be available for interpreting the everyday, and alternative ways of figuring systems of privilege may be developed in contestations over social arrangements."
- 2 problem solving that involves numbers or quantities wordnet
- 3 Structure, design, or arrangement; figure. countable, uncountable
"We must remember, however, that all these figurings are written with reference to the tonic signature."
- 4 Representation. countable, uncountable
"Yet when we examine how Mendes's film figures the behind, as it were, behind the father, when we look closely at the film's figurings of anality in the father/son relation, we do not see an insistence that traces of a radical Otherness emerge in figurings of archaic relations and in turn challenge problematic, idealized claims that relations between men can transcend Symbolic mediation."
- 1 present participle and gerund of figure form-of, gerund, participle, present
Example
More examples"Figuring a way to make a dollar comes ahead of thinking about how to do the job better."
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