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facs

facs is the plural of fac.

Meaning of fac

Noun (1)

fac (plural facs)

  1. (rare) A factotum letter, or a similar kind of ornamentally bordered letter formerly used at the start of a chapter or section of a book.
    • If a Fac or Flowered letter be deeper than the Composing-stick we measure the exact width of it by Quotations, or common Quadrats; which we put into our Stick, and the Fac into the Galley, and then compose, and empty each time so many lines as our measure in the Stick will allow, till we have...1771, Philip Luckombe, The History and Art of Printing, page 385

Noun (2)

fac (plural facs)

  1. (colloquial) A faculty within a university.
    • Here's to Hibben. We call him Jack
      The whitest man in all the fac.
      Of Princeton spirit he does not lack1973, Princeton Alumni Weekly, volume 74, page vii

Noun (1) capitalized: FACS

FACS

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of family and consumer sciences.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of facial action coding system.
    • In FACS, every one of the forty-three distinctive muscle movements in the face is assigned a number, called an "action unit."2019, Malcolm Gladwell, Talking to Strangers, page 147

Noun (2) capitalized: FACs

FACs

  1. (plural) plural of FAC

Phrases with facs

Questions about facs

What is facs the plural of?
Facs is the plural of fac.
What part of speech is facs?
Facs is a noun.

Words near facs in the dictionary

  1. faconne
  2. faconnes
  3. facons
  4. FACP
  5. FACPs
  6. facs
  7. facsimile
  8. facsimile machine
  9. facsimile machines
  10. facsimiled
  11. facsimileing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: facs (page history and authors); FACS (page history and authors); FACs (page history and authors); fac (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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