fascicule

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noun

An installment of a printed work, a fascicle.

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nounfascicule (plural fascicules)

plural fascicules

  1. An installment of a printed work, a fascicle.

    In Piers' hotel room at Avignon there was a ton of these fascicules, some of which I could even remember having heard him deliver in those far-off days.

    1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 104
  2. obsoleteA bundle of nerve fibers; a fasciculus.

    Perlia advocates, however, the assumption that the posterior longitudinal fascicule connecting the oculo-motor center with the medulla oblongata, […]

    1893 November 25, Charles Zimmerman, “The Relation of the Ocular Nerves to the Brain”, in The Medical and Surgical Reporter, page 812
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    In the large tactile hairs, or sinus hairs, — i.e., those provided with a blood-sinus, — several nerve-fibres form a fascicule and enter the follicle near the base; […]

    1895, Charles E. Sajous, “Normal Histology and Microscopical Technology”, in Annual of the Universal Medical Sciences, page 97
  3. alternativebiologyAlternative form of fascicle.

Synonyms & antonyms

nounan installment of a printed work

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Origin

  1. Latinfasciculus
  2. Frenchfascicule
  3. Englishfascicule

From French fascicule, from Latin fasciculus.

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Translations

Catalan fascicle, fascicle
  • fasciclean installment of a printed work, a fascicle
  • fasciclea bundle of nerve fibers; a fasciculus
French fascicule
  • fasciculean installment of a printed work, a fascicle
Italian fascicolo
  • fascicoloan installment of a printed work, a fascicle
Latin fasciculus
  • fasciculusan installment of a printed work, a fascicle
Portuguese fascículo
  • fascículoan installment of a printed work, a fascicle
Russian вы́пуск, пучо́к нервов
  • вы́пуск (výpusk)an installment of a printed work, a fascicle
  • пучо́к нервов (pučók nervov)a bundle of nerve fibers; a fasciculus
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APA

fascicule. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fascicule

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“fascicule.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fascicule. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “fascicule,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fascicule.

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