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fac - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
noun
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun
from Wiktionary , Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
noun ornamental letter formerly used at the start of a chapter or section of a book .
Etymologies
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Abbreviation of facsimile .
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The passage is this; speaking of "eminent persons buried" at Waltham Abbey, he says: "we spoil all, if we forget Robert Passellew, who was _dominus fac totum_ in the middle -- and _fac nihil_ towards the end -- of the reign of Henry III."
Notes and Queries, Number 20, March 16, 1850 Various
The next line creates a simple wrapper function to hide away the accumulator base value of int fac = (int n) = fac_.
B# .NET Technical Community Homepage bart 2010
I know as a fac (and it pretty well shows the young genlmn's carryter), that he went that very day and ordered 2 new coats, on porpos to be introjuiced to the lords in.
The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
I know as a fac (and it pretty well shows the young genlmn’s carryter), that he went that very day and ordered 2 new coats, on porpos to be introjuiced to the lords in.
The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush 2006
F * éff fábulous * fábyələss façàde * fəsàd fâcelift one word fac êtious * fəsêeshəss fácîle fáction
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
F * éff fábulous * fábyələss façàde * fəsàd fâcelift one word fac êtious * fəsêeshəss fácîle fáction
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
Some Scheme implementations accepts the more readable name fac depends on the implementation: some implementations support infinite precision numbers (this is required by the R6RS) but some implementations do not.
Artima Weblogs 2008
To see this little seventy year old nun saying "fac " over and over again is ...
hamletwildie Diary Entry hamletwildie 2004
The Lord deals wi 'fac 's nane the less' at they canna help bein 'teeps.
Donal Grant, by George MacDonald George MacDonald 1864
I was, during several years, a kind of fac -totum servant to a country clergyman, where I picked up a good many scraps of learning, particularly -- in some branches of the mathematics.
The Letters of Robert Burns Robert Burns 1777
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