Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of various large bright spots or veined patches on the sun's photosphere, usually near sunspots.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In astronomy, one of the small spots often seen on the sun's disk, which appear brighter than the rest of his surface.
Wiktionary
- n. astronomy A bright spot or patch between sunspots
WordNet 3.0
- n. a bright spot on a planet
- n. a large bright spot on the sun's photosphere occurring most frequently in the vicinity of sunspots
Etymologies
- Latin, small torch, diminutive of fax, fac-, torch. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Toward the edges of the Sun, again, are very brilliant and highly luminous regions, which generally surround the spots, and have been termed _faculæ_ (_facula_, a little torch).”
“He considers it indeed "highly probable that the preparatory sign of a new spot is always a small, bright patch of facula.”
A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition
“: "Si autem velut a lumine lumina accensa sunt ... velut verbi gratia a facula faculæ, generatione quidem et magnitudine fortasse distabunt ab invicem; eiusdem autem substantive cum sint cum principe emissionis ipsorum, aut omnes impassibiles perseverant aut et pater ipsorum participabit passiones.”
“Neque enim quæ postea accensa est facula, alterum lumen habebit quam illud quod ante eam fuit. ”
“• Regnabit Dominus in facula &c 4] Ante faecula re* gnavit Chriftus finecarne; regnavitefiam in carn* in faecula.”
Internet Archive: Opera omnia sanctorum patrum graecorum: graece et latine
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘facula’.
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phrontistery - f
from phrontistery.info
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Logolepsy
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Sunbeam
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inspiral, activation, envision, myselves, recognition, imagination, repattern, exponential, flashforward, syncronicity, swish, sensation and 177 more...
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Wordie/Wordnik Curio Cabinet
Oddments culled from my "main" lists that belong in a display cabinet of their own, plus sundry other curiosities. :-)
zeugma, ziggurat, xiphoid, xeric, whizgigging, whangdoodle, viviparous, vivific, vinolent, verjuice, vellicate, velleity and 1193 more...
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The word collector
My collection of words that are intriguing, but don't fit my other lists.
snailery, aplasia, postulant, aigrette, caravel, frigate, capeskin, suffusion, schist, varlet, sepulchral, anisotropy and 317 more...
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