figment
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British, GA) IPA: /ˈfɪɡ.mənt/
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figment (plural figments)
- A fabrication, fantasy, invention; something fictitious.
- 1989 (Sep 30), R. McNeill Alexander, "Biomechanics in the days before Newton", New Scientist volume 123, No. 1684, page 59
- He had not seen sarcomeres: these segments were a figment of his imagination.
- 1989 (Sep 30), R. McNeill Alexander, "Biomechanics in the days before Newton", New Scientist volume 123, No. 1684, page 59
- French: chimère, illusion, vaticination, vue de l'esprit, déconnage (colloquial), fiction, utopie, divagation, rêve, rêvasserie, fantasmagorie, roman
- German: Hirngespinst, Fantasieprodukt, Erfindung
- Russian: вы́думка
- Spanish: quimera, espejismo, ensueño, ficción
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