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English
Etymology
Late Middle English figuracion, from Middle French figuration, from Latin figūrō (“to form”). Equivalent to figurate + -ion.
Pronunciation
Noun
figuration (countable and uncountable, plural figurations)
- The act of giving figure or determinate form.
- Form, outline or boundaries.
- Ornamentation or decoration, especially by the addition of figures.
- 2001, Stephen Fox, Rice University: An Architectural Tour, page 204:
- […] a shift to modernist building typologies in the early 1950s led to the abandonment of symmetry, centrality, and figuration. Since the 1980s, big-box typologies, frosted with postmodern architectural veneer, have dominated.
- Mixture of concords and discords.
- (art) Representation through visual forms.
- 1986, Frank Stella, Working Space, page 74:
- To recapitulate: consider the human form—skin, bone, and flesh. Consider the painting—surface, structure, and pigment. With a little license, the first gives us the ingredients for what might be called human or “figurative” figuration; the second gives us the ingredients for abstract or “nonfigurative” figuration.
- (sociology) A structure through which people are joined, or the process of constructing such structures.
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French
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Noun
figuration f (plural figurations)
- (theater, film) cast of extras
- Taking a back seat
- figuration
Further reading
- “figuration”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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