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face

Front part of the head, extending from the forehead to the chin and housing the eyes, nose, mouth, and jaws. The receding of the jaw and the increasing size of the brain in human evolution has made the face essentially vertical, with two distinctively human features: a prominent, projecting nose and a clearly defined chin. The face and braincase follow different patterns of growth. While the face grows more slowly, it ends up much larger compared to the braincase in adults than at birth. The facial muscles move the features to express emotion.

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face

1. Mountaineering a steep side of a mountain, bounded by ridges

2. Nautical aeronautics the aft or near side of a propeller blade

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face [fās]

(anatomy)

The anterior portion of the head, including the forehead and jaws.

(civil engineering)

The surface of the area that has been excavated in constructing a tunnel.

In building construction, the exposed surface of a wall, masonry unit, or sheet of material.

To install a surface layer of one material over another, such as laying brick on a wall built of concrete blocks.

(crystallography)

crystal face

(design engineering)

The surface of a flange on a pipe that is fitted against another flange.

(electronics)

faceplate

(geology)

The main surface of a landform.

The original surface of a layer of rock.

(graphic arts)

A particular style or size of letter as distinguished from another style or size. Also known as typeface.

The printing surface of a printing plate or the front surface of a piece of paper.

(materials)

The veneer on the exposed surface of a sheet of plywood.

(mathematics)

One of the plane polygons bounding a polyhedron.

A face of a simplex is the subset obtained by setting one or more of the coordinatesa_i, defining the simplex, equal to 0; for example, the faces of a triangle are its sides and vertices.

The face of a half space is the plane that bounds it.

One of the regions bounded by edges of a planar graph.

(mining engineering)

A surface on which mining operations are being performed. Also known as breast.

(textiles)

The side of a fabric which is more attractive than the other side because of features such as weave, luster, or finish.

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Face

Lovewit’s house servant; connives to make profit by alchemy. [Br. Lit.: The Alchemist]

See : Butler

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Face

cunning butler, sets up scam in master’s absence. [Br. Lit.: The Alchemist]

See : Humbuggery