Facet

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun The narrow plane surface between flutings of a column.

II. Facet ·vt To cut facets or small faces upon; as, to facet a diamond.

III. Facet ·noun A smooth circumscribed surface; as, the articular facet of a bone.

IV. Facet ·noun A little face; a small, plane surface; as, the facets of a diamond.

V. Facet ·noun One of the numerous small eyes which make up the compound eyes of insects and crustaceans.