figuring

Calculation.

Noun

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. - 2008, Patricia Murphy, Kathy...
- 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. - 2011, Tim Sandlin, Western Swing: A Novel, →ISBN, page 270:
Structure, design, or arrangement; figure.
- We must remember, however, that all these figurings are written with reference to the tonic signature. - 1863, Herrman S. Saroni, Musical Grammar:
- These webbings are made in innumerable fine patternings, with silk mixtures in the design, in narrow stripings and small figurings. - 1894, The Clothier and Furnisher - Volume 23, page 60:
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...