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fascicle

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English

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WOTD – 29 June 2006
muscle fascicles (2)
fascicles on a pine twig (3)

Etymology

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FromLatinfasciculus, a diminutive offascis(bundle); see alsofasces.Doublet offasciculus.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈfæs.ɪ.kəl/
  • Audio(US):(file)
  • Hyphenation:fas‧cic‧le

Noun

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fascicle (pluralfascicles)

  1. Abundle orcluster.
  2. (anatomy) A bundle ofskeletalmusclefibers surrounded byconnective tissue.
  3. (botany) Acluster offlowers orleaves, such as the bundles of the thin leaves (or needles) ofpines.
  4. (botany) Adiscrete bundle ofvasculartissue.
  5. (publishing) A discretesection of a bookissued or published separately, generally as a temporary measure while the work is in progress.
    Synonym:serial
    • 1993, Donna Lee Berg,A Guide to the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford University Press,→ISBN, page 3:
      The OED [Oxford English Dictionary] was initially published in a series of 125 slimfascicles between the years 1884 and 1928. The first complete edition in ten volumes was published in 1928.
    • 2005,Donald E. Knuth,MMIX–A RISC Computer for the New Millennium (The Art of Computer Programming), volume 1, Addison-Wesley Professional,→ISBN,page iii:
      I was inspired to preparefascicles like this by the example of Charles Dickens, who issued his novels in serial form; he published a dozen installments ofOliver Twist before having any idea what would become of Bill Sikes!
    • 2005, Anne Burkus-Chasson, “Visual Hermeneutics and the Act of Turning the Leaf”, in Cynthia Joanne Brokaw, Kai-wing Chow, editors,Printing and Book Culture in Late Imperial China, University of California Press,→ISBN,page371:
      The printed book appeared in a variety of forms during the course of its history in China. These included, among others, the “whirlwind” binding(xuanfeng zhuang),[] the “thread” binding(xianzhuang), a technical designation that refers to the silken or cotton filaments used to stitch together folded sheets of paper intofascicles.

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Translations

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bundle of skeletal muscle fibers
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Catalan

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromLatinfasciculus.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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fascicle m (pluralfascicles)

  1. fascicle

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