Both Uses of
facet
in
Childhood's End
- He did not believe that he had ever seen more than a few facets of the Supervisor's personality: the real Karellen was unknown and perhaps unknowable to human beings.†
Chpt 4 *
- The great, many-faceted crystals stood grouped in intricate geometrical patterns, motionless in the eras of cold, growing slowly along the veins of mineral when the world was warm again.†
Chpt 18
Definition:
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(facet) a distinct feature or element in a problem
or more rarely: a smooth surface (as of a bone or cut gemstone)