figuring

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figuring

/ˈfɪɡ.ə.ɹɪŋ/ Australia, UK
/ˈfɪɡ.jɚ.ɪŋ/ Canada, US
/ˈfɪɡ.ɚ.ɪŋ/ Canada, US

noun figurings

countable, uncountable Calculation. Alternative figurings may be available for interpreting the everyday, and alternative ways of figuring systems of privilege may be developed in contestations over social arrangements.
countable, uncountable Structure, design, or arrangement; figure. We must remember, however, that all these figurings are written with reference to the tonic signature.
countable, uncountable Representation. Yet when we examine how Mendes's film figures the behind, as it were, behind the father, when we look closely at the film's figurings of anality in the father/son relation, we do not see an insistence that traces of a radical Otherness emerge in figurings of archaic relations and in turn challenge p

verb

gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of figure

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Closest in meaning: calculation, computation, reckoning, math, thinking, claiming, expressing, estimating, calculating, computing, determining, deducing, inferring, assuming, concluding, reasoning

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@misc{figuring_2026,
  title = {figuring},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/figuring},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}