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FIGURE 8
Dictionary entry overview: What does figure 8 mean?
• FIGURE 8 (noun)
The noun FIGURE 8 has 1 sense:
1. a two-dimensional figure having the shape of the number eight
Familiarity information: FIGURE 8 used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A two-dimensional figure having the shape of the number eight
Classified under:
Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes
Synonyms:
figure 8; figure eight; figure of eight
Hypernyms ("figure 8" is a kind of...):
plane figure; two-dimensional figure (a two-dimensional shape)
Context examples
A measurement of the Cabot rings (red-purple staining, threadlike, ring or figure 8 shaped filaments in an erythrocyte) in a biological specimen.
(Cabot Ring Count, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
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