ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Fac

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Pronunciation /fæk/ · Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Fac is a noun meaning (colloquial) A faculty within a university.

Meaning

(colloquial) A faculty within a university.

More Meanings

  1. (typography, 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.

Example Sentences

Here's to Hibben. We call him Jack The whitest man in all the fac. Of Princeton spirit he does not lack
I had my essay on a memory stick so it just needed to be printed out in the Arts Fac; I'd intended to re-read it for sense but meeting Liv seemed more important.
The Fac Initial, a cheap substitute for the Pierced Initial, is made by combinations of small borders about an interior letter. As these borders are troublesome to construct and too often plainly show their joints, the Fac Initial is seldom made now.
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 composed so many as reach something beyond the Depth of the Fac, that by justifying it up to the lines, its touching the letters underneath may be prevented.

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Related Words

Related dictionary entries include lining, cladding, veneer, caf, sis, fcc.

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