figuring

Noun

figuring (countable and uncountable, plural figurings)

1. Calculation.
   • Alternative figurings may be available for interpreting the everyday, and alternative ways of figuring systems of privilege may be developed in contestations over social arrangements.2008, Patricia Murphy, Kathy Hall, Learning and Practice: Agency and Identities, →ISBN, page 157
   • By my figuring, he couldn't have been much over forty, but sagging, bleached-out skin and a gray to balding head made him look sixty.2011, Tim Sandlin, Western Swing: A Novel, →ISBN, page 270
2. Structure, design, or arrangement; figure.
   • We must remember, however, that all these figurings are written with reference to the tonic signature.1863, Herrman S. Saroni, Musical Grammar
   • These webbings are made in innumerable fine patternings, with silk mixtures in the design, in narrow stripings and small figurings.1894, The Clothier and Furnisher - Volume 23, page 60
3. Representation.
   • Yet when we examine how Mendes's film figures the behind, as it were, behind the father, when we look closely at the film's figurings of anality in the father/son relation, we do not see an insistence that traces of a radical Otherness emerge in figurings of archaic relations and in turn challenge...2011, Vincent J. Hausmann, Cinema, Technologies of Visibility, and the Reanimation of Desire, →ISBN, page 35