facelet

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noun

Any of the individual coloured squares making up one side of a Rubik's cube; the face of a cubie.

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Meanings

nounfacelet (plural facelets)

plural facelets

  1. Any of the individual coloured squares making up one side of a Rubik's cube; the face of a cubie.

    If you have a picture on the face with a definite orientation of the center facelet, you have to solve for rotations of the center facelets as well as for the usual Rubik's cube movements.

    1996 August 14, David and Enid Karr, “Re: Rubik's variants”, in rec.puzzles (Usenet)
  2. Java programming languageAn element of an open-source Web template system for JSF.

    When creating a Java web project using JSF, a facelet is automatically generated.

    2015, David R. Heffelfinger, Java EE 7 Development with NetBeans 8, page 58

Origin

From face + -let.

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APA

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Chicago

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