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fasc.

fasc. is the abbreviation of fascicle.

fasc. is the abbreviation of fasciculus.

Meaning of fascicle

Noun

fascicle (plural fascicles)

  1. A bundle or cluster.
  2. A bundle of skeletal muscle fibers surrounded by connective tissue.
  3. A cluster of flowers or leaves, such as the bundles of the thin leaves (or needles) of pines.
  4. A discrete bundle of vascular tissue.
  5. A discrete section of a book issued or published separately, generally as a temporary measure while the work is in progress.
    • The OED [Oxford English Dictionary] was initially published in a series of 125 slim fascicles between the years 1884 and 1928. The first complete edition in ten volumes was published in 1928.1993, Donna Lee Berg, A Guide to the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 3
    Synonyms:
    serial

Meaning of fasciculus

Noun

fasciculus (plural fasciculi)

  1. A small bundle of nerve, muscle or tendon fibers.
  2. One of the divisions of a book published in separate parts; a fascicle.

Forms of fasc.

pluralfasc.
pluralfascs.
alternative formfasc

Questions about fasc.

What is fasc. the abbreviation of?
Fasc. is the abbreviation of fascicle.

Words near fasc. in the dictionary

  1. fas est et ab hoste doceri
  2. Fasano
  3. Fasanos
  4. FASB
  5. fasc
  6. fasc.
  7. fascaplysin
  8. fasces
  9. fascet
  10. fascets
  11. faschism

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fasc. (page history and authors); fascicle (page history and authors); fasciculus (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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