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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 122 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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FACULA (diminutive of fax, Lat. for " torch ")

FACULA (diminutive of fax, See also:
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TORCH (O. Fr. torche, from Med. Lat. tortia, derived from tortus, twisted, torquere, to twist)
torch ") , in See also:

ASTRONOMY (from Gr. &arpov, a star, and v ,usiv, to classify or arrange)

astronomy, a See also:

minute shining spot on the See also:

sun's disk, markedly brighter than the photosphere in See also:

general, usually appearing in See also:

groups . Faculae are most frequent in the neighbourhood of spots .

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