having a set of mutually perpendicular axes; meeting at right angles; "wind and sea may displace the ship's center of gravity along three orthogonal axes"; "a rectangular Cartesian coordinate system"
a vaguely specified social event; "the party was quite an affair"; "an occasion arranged to honor the president"; "a seemingly endless round of social functions"
a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship
having three units or components or elements; "a ternary operation"; "a treble row of red beads"; "overcrowding made triple sessions necessary"; "triple time has three beats per measure"; "triplex windows"
a predetermined set of movements in dancing or skating; "she made the best score on compulsory figures"
a model of a bodily form (especially of a person); "he made a figure of Santa Claus"
the impression produced by a person; "he cut a fine figure"; "a heroic figure"
a unitary percept having structure and coherence that is the object of attention and that stands out against a ground
a diagram or picture illustrating textual material; "the area covered can be seen from Figure 2"
an amount of money expressed numerically; "a figure of $17 was suggested"
a combination of points and lines and planes that form a visible palpable shape
understand; "He didn't figure her"
be or play a part of or in; "Elections figure prominently in every government program"; "How do the elections figure in the current pattern of internal politics?"