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multifaces

  1. plural of multiface
  2. (plural only) multiple faces.
    • 1972, Egyptian Journal of Microbiology - Volume 24, page 340:
      It is an element of multifaces, essential, toxic, carcinogen and anticarcinogen at the same time.
    • 1975, Ramayyar Subramanian, Entrepreneurship in Small-scale Industries in Madurai City and Its Environs, page 107:
      Before blueprints for entrepreneurial training can be prepared, objective data on the multifaces of the small entrepreneurial man, his characteristics and influencing factors have to be gathered either for improving the existing on-going programme or for starting a new one.
    • 1990, Harold Bloom, Clarissa Dalloway, page 95:
      Having recognized and rejected the multifaces of power and coercion, she has achieved, through a mature and comprehending acceptance of self and others, her moral victory.
    • 1996, William Eastlake, Lyric of the Circle Heart: The Bowman Family Trilogy, page 150:
      His body was turning all hot and then suddenly cold with the same rhythm that the multifaces in the mirror switched from crouching gargoyles to giants.
    • 2006, Boniface Gregory Fernandes, Making Delhi a Better Place, page 259:
      Walking or driving through it, reveals the viscissitudes - the multifaces of the metropolis.
    • 2015, Y. F. Huang, J. J. Geng, “Collision between Neutron Stars and Asteroids as a Mechanism for Fast Radio Bursts”, in arXiv[1]:
      Fast radio bursts thus may be one side of the multifaces of the neutron star-small body collision events, which are previously expected to lead to X-ray/gamma-ray bursts or glitch/anti-glitches..