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A word that draws shapes, crunches numbers, and reads minds — sometimes in one sentence.
means A number, a shape or human form, a notable person, or the act of working something out.
from From Latin figura, meaning shape or form, via the verb fingere, to mold or fashion — the same root that shaped fiction and feign.
Money senseA six-figure salary means literal digits, not curves.
Verb modeTo figure something out is mental molding.
Old phraseA figure of speech bends words, not arithmetic.
Art rootFigure drawing still means the human form.