facular
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Etymology edit
Adjective edit
facular (not comparable)
- (astronomy) Of or pertaining to the faculae.
- facular granules
- facular atmosphere
- facular brightening
- 1873, Richard A. Proctor, The Borderland of Science: A Series of Familar Dissertations on Stars, Planets, and Meteors:
- While we were still far from the place of explosion , and intent on the study of the great facular waves which were passing swiftly beneath us , we suddenly heard a series of explosions so tremendous
References edit
- “facular”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “facular”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.