an aspect or phase, as of a subject or personality
3. architecture
the raised surface between the flutes of a column
4.
any of the lenses that make up the compound eye of an insect or other arthropod
5. anatomy
any small smooth area on a hard surface, as on a bone
verbWord forms: -ets, -eting, -eted, -ets, -etting or -etted
6. (transitive)
to cut facets in (a gemstone)
Word origin
C17: from French facette a little face
Examples of 'facetted' in a sentence
facetted
Our study will explore a multi-facetted focus for both the instructional process and student work.
Estefania Dominguez, Véronique Rivière 2015, 'Les consignes en classe de langue : activité polyfocalisée et rôle du regard', Recherches en didactique des langues et des cultureshttp://journals.openedition.org/rdlc/715. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)