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Fascicle
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Fascicle has 2 senses
- fascicle(n = noun.communication) fascicule - an installment of a printed work; Array is a kind of installment, instalment
- fascicle(n = noun.body) fasciculus, fiber bundle, fibre bundle - a bundle of fibers (especially nerve fibers); Array has particulars: fornix, trigonum cerebrale, nerve, nervus
is a kind of nerve tissue, nervous tissue
is a part of nervous system, systema nervosum
CIDE DICTIONARY
Fascicle, n. [L. fasciculus, dim. of fascis. See Fasces.].
- A small bundle or collection; a compact cluster; as, a fascicle of fibers; a fascicle of flowers or roots. [1913 Webster]
- One of the divisions of a book published in parts; fasciculus. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Fascicle, n.
1 (also fascicule) a separately published instalment of a book, usu. not complete in itself.
2 a bunch or bundle.
3 (also fasciculus) Anat. a bundle of fibres.
1 (also fascicule) a separately published instalment of a book, usu. not complete in itself.
2 a bunch or bundle.
3 (also fasciculus) Anat. a bundle of fibres.
Derivative
fascicled adj. fascicular adj. fasciculate adj. fasciculation n.
Etymology
L fasciculus bundle, dimin. of fascis: see FASCES
ROGET THESAURUS
Fascicle
Assemblage
N assemblage, collection, collocation, colligation, compilation, levy, gathering, ingathering, muster, attroupement, team, concourse, conflux, congregation, contesseration, convergence, meeting, levee, reunion, drawing room, at home, conversazione, assembly, congress, convention, conventicle, gemote, conclave, posse, posse comitatus, Noah's ark, miscellany, collectanea, museum, menagerie, museology, crowd, throng, group, flood, rush, deluge, rabble, mob, press, crush, cohue, horde, body, tribe, crew, gang, knot, squad, band, party, swarm, shoal, school, covey, flock, herd, drove, atajo, bunch, drive, force, mulada, remuda, roundup, array, bevy, galaxy, corps, company, troop, troupe, task force, army, regiment, host, populousness, clan, brotherhood, fraternity, sorority, association, volley, shower, storm, cloud, group, cluster, Pleiades, clump, pencil, set, batch, lot, pack, budget, assortment, bunch, parcel, packet, package, bundle, fascine, fasces, bale, seron, seroon, fagot, wisp, truss, tuft, shock, rick, fardel, stack, sheaf, haycock, fascicle, fascicule, fasciculus, gavel, hattock, stook, accumulation, congeries, heap, lump, pile, rouleau, tissue, mass, pyramid, bing, drift, snowball, snowdrift, acervation, cumulation, glomeration, agglomeration, conglobation, conglomeration, conglomerate, coacervate, coacervation, coagmentation, aggregation, concentration, congestion, omnium gaterum, spicilegium, black hole of Calcutta, quantity, collector, gatherer, whip, whipper in, assembled, closely packed, dense, serried, crowded to suffocation, teeming, swarming, populous, as thick as hops, all of a heap, fasciculated cumulative, the plot thickens, acervatim, tibi seris tibi metis.
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