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Definition of Facula

1. Noun. A bright spot on a planet.

2. Noun. A large bright spot on the sun's photosphere occurring most frequently in the vicinity of sunspots.

Definition of Facula

1. Noun. (astronomy) A bright spot or patch between sunspots ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Facula

1. an unusually bright spot on the sun's surface [n -LAE] : FACULAR [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Facula

factual factualism factualisms factualist factualists factualities factuality factually factualness factualnesses

factum factums facture factures facty facula (current term) faculae facular facultative facultative aerobe

facultative anaerobe facultative biped facultative bipeds facultative heterochromatin facultative hyperopia facultative parasite facultative ponds facultative quadruped facultative quadrupeds facultative species

Literary usage of Facula

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Contributions to Solar Physics: I. A Popular Account of Inquiries Into the by J. Norman. Lockyer (1874)
"Although near the facula? are commonly found large protuberances, ... The protuberances and the jets lie near the facula:, but constitute a phenomenon ..."

2. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society by Royal Astronomical Society (1895)
"The following table will serve to show the degree of probability we have for asserting that facula; in general drift with the spots. ..."

3. The Trouvelot Astronomical Drawings Manual by Étienne Léopold Trouvelot (1882)
"I have seen narrow branches of facula;, which, after having fallen to great depths in the umbra, floated across it and disappeared under the photosphere on ..."

4. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1885)
"On one occasion M. Trouvelot says that it was possible, owing to the position of the spot and the height of the facula above it, to look under the facula ..."

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