The act of giving figure or determinate form. / Form, outline or boundaries. / Ornamentation or decoration, especially by the addition of figures. / Mixture of concords and discords.

Relating to figurations.

plural of figuration

Calculation. / Structure, design, or arrangement; figure. / Representation.

present participle of figure

(of a natural material) Having a pattern considered attractive appearing on a section. / Adorned with a figure or figures.

simple past tense and past participle of figure

To shape; to give a figure.

Forming a figure. / (music) Florid.

(chiefly US) To calculate, to solve a mathematical problem. / (chiefly US) To come to understand. / To think, to assume, to suppose, to reckon. / (chiefly US, intransitive) To be reasonable.