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facelet

facelet noun: any of the individual coloured squares making up one side of a Rubik's cube; the face of a cubie.

Noun

facelet (plural facelets)

  1. Any of the individual coloured squares making up one side of a Rubik's cube; the face of a cubie.
    • If you have a picture on the face with a definite orientation of the center facelet, you have to solve for rotations of the center facelets as well as for the usual Rubik's cube movements.1996 August 14, David and Enid Karr, “Re: Rubik's variants”, in rec.puzzles (Usenet)
  2. (Java programming language) An element of an open-source Web template system for JSF.
    • When creating a Java web project using JSF, a facelet is automatically generated.2015, David R. Heffelfinger, Java EE 7 Development with NetBeans 8, page 58

Forms of facelet

pluralfacelets

Origin of facelet

From face + -let.

Questions about facelet

What does facelet mean?
Facelet means any of the individual coloured squares making up one side of a Rubik's cube; the face of a cubie.
What part of speech is facelet?
Facelet is a noun.
What is the plural of facelet?
The plural of facelet is facelets.

Words near facelet in the dictionary

  1. faceless bureaucrats
  2. faceless man
  3. faceless men
  4. facelessly
  5. facelessness
  6. facelet
  7. facelets
  8. facelick
  9. facelicked
  10. facelicking
  11. facelicks

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