figuring

substantivo

1. 1

   Calculation.

   Alternative figurings may be available for interpreting the everyday, and alternative ways of figuring systems of privilege may be developed in contestations over social arrangements.

   By my figuring, he couldn't have been much over forty, but sagging, bleached-out skin and a gray to balding head made him look sixty.

2. 2

   Structure, design, or arrangement; figure.

   We must remember, however, that all these figurings are written with reference to the tonic signature.

   These webbings are made in innumerable fine patternings, with silk mixtures in the design, in narrow stripings and small figurings.

3. 3

   Representation.

   Yet when we examine how Mendes's film figures the behind, as it were, behind the father, when we look closely at the film's figurings of anality in the father/son relation, we do not see an insistence that traces of a radical Otherness emerge in figurings of archaic relations and in turn challenge problematic, idealized claims that relations between men can transcend Symbolic mediation.

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1. 1

   Também uma forma de figurepresent participle and gerund of figure

Formas

plural

figurings