Faculty

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. An inherent power or ability.
  • noun. A talent or natural ability for something.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The teachers and instructors of a school or college, or of one of its divisions, especially those considered permanent, full-time employees.
  • noun. One of the divisions of a college or university.
  • noun. All of the members of a learned profession.
  • noun. Authorization granted by authority; conferred power.
  • noun. An occupation; a trade.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. In algebra, the product of a series of factors in arithmetical progression, a(a + b) … (a + (m — 1)b).
  • noun. A specific power, mental or physical; a special capacity for any particular kind of action or affection; natural capability: sometimes, but rarely, restricted to an active power: as, the faculty of perception or of speech; a faculty for mimicry: sometimes extended to inanimate things: as, the faculty of a wedge; the faculty of simples. See theory of faculties, below.
  • noun. A power or privilege conferred; bestowed capacity for the performance of any act or function; ability or authority acquired in any way.
  • noun. A body of persons on whom are conferred specific professional powers; all the authorized members of a learned profession collectively, or a body associated or acting together in a particular place or institution; when used absolutely (the faculty), the medical profession: as, the learned faculty of the law; the faculty of a college; the Faculty of Advocates in Edinburgh.
  • noun. Executive ability; skill in devising and executing or supervising: applied usually to domestic affairs.
  • noun. In colonial New England, a trade or profession.
  • noun. In the law of divorce (commonly in the plural), the pecuniary ability of the husband, in view of both his property and his capacity to earn money, with reference to which the amount of the wife's alimony is fixed.
  • noun. See the adjectives.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Ability to act or perform, whether inborn or cultivated; capacity for any natural function; especially, an original mental power or capacity for any of the well-known classes of mental activity; psychical or soul capacity; capacity for any of the leading kinds of soul activity, as knowledge, feeling, volition; intellectual endowment or gift; power.
  • noun. Special mental endowment; characteristic knack.
  • noun. Power; prerogative or attribute of office.
  • noun. Privilege or permission, granted by favor or indulgence, to do a particular thing; authority; license; dispensation.
  • noun. A body of a men to whom any specific right or privilege is granted; formerly, the graduates in any of the four departments of a university or college (Philosophy, Law, Medicine, or Theology), to whom was granted the right of teaching (profitendi or docendi) in the department in which they had studied; at present, the members of a profession itself
  • noun. The body of person to whom are intrusted the government and instruction of a college or university, or of one of its departments; the president, professors, and tutors in a college.
  • noun. See under Dean.
  • noun. See under Advocate.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The scholarly staff at colleges or universities, as opposed to the students or support staff.
  • noun. A division of a university (e.g. a Faculty of Science or Faculty of Medicine).
  • noun. An ability, skill, or power.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind
  • noun. the body of teachers and administrators at a school
  • Word Usage
    "The term faculty was used at first to designate a specific field of knowledge; but in 1255 we find the Masters at Paris using the term in the modern meaning of"