figure

A drawing or diagram conveying information.

For example, while Figure 1 shows information for 516 visitor groups, Figure 3 presents data for 1,625 individuals. A note above each graph or table specifies the information illustrated. ... For example, although Joshua Tree NP visitors returned 525 questionnaires, Figure 1 shows data for only 516 respondents.

The representation of any form, as by drawing, painting, modelling, carving, embroidering, etc.; especially, a representation of the human body.

a figure in bronze; a figure cut in marble

a coin that bears the figure of an angel

A person or thing representing a certain consciousness.

Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. When a series of bank failures made this impossible, there was widespread anger, leading to the public humiliation of symbolic figures.

The appearance or impression made by the conduct or career of a person.

He cut a sorry figure standing there in the rain.

I made some figure there.

Distinguished appearance; magnificence; conspicuous representation; splendour; show.

that he may live in figure and indulgence

To calculate, to solve a mathematical problem.

To come to understand.

I can’t figure if he’s telling the truth or lying.

To think, to assume, to suppose, to reckon.

1. Gent. Thou art alwayes figuring diseases in me; but thou art full of error, I am sound.

“I know you figure me for a leftneck fool, correct?”

To be reasonable or predictable.

It figures that somebody like him would be upset about the situation.

To enter into; to be a part of.

It is the transcontinental trains which figure most prominently in railway advertising. Both railways run two trains in each direction.

The exchange rate figures heavily in several other aspects of Venezuela's economy.