fascicule
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.14 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An installment of a printed work, a fascicle.
noun
Alternative form of fascicle.
Example Sentences
- "In Piers' hotel room at Avignon there was a ton of these fascicules, some of which I could even remember having heard him deliver in those far-off days."
- "Perlia advocates, however, the assumption that the posterior longitudinal fascicule connecting the oculo-motor center with the medulla oblongata, […]"
- "In the large tactile hairs, or sinus hairs, — i.e., those provided with a blood-sinus, — several nerve-fibres form a fascicule and enter the follicle near the base; […]"
Etymology
From French fascicule, from Latin fasciculus.