Figure may refer to:
- A shape, drawing, or representation
- Figure, wood appearance
- Musical figure, distinguished from musical motif
- Shaping a mirror on a reflective telescope
- Noise figure, in telecommunication
- Dance figure, an elementary dance pattern
- Vivian Davis Figures, Democratic member of the Alabama State Senate
- A person's figure, human physical appearance
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Famous quotes containing the word figure:
“A beautiful person among the Greeks, was thought to betray by this sign some secret favor of the immortal gods; and we can pardon pride, when a woman possesses such a figure that wherever she stands, or moves, or leaves a shadow on the wall, or sits for a portrait to the artist, she confers a favor on the world.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“A child... who has learned from fairy stories to believe that what at first seemed a repulsive, threatening figure can magically change into a most helpful friend is ready to believe that a strange child whom he meets and fears may also be changed from a menace into a desirable companion.”
—Bruno Bettelheim (20th century)
“... only
A figure spun on stirring of the air,
And so, untrue.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)