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:
“When you can’t figure out what to do, it’s time for a nap.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.”
—Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)
“The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)