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fascicle

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fas=ci=cle

CIDE DICTIONARY

fasciclen. [L. fasciculus, dim. of fascis. See Fasces.].
  •  A small bundle or collection; a compact cluster; as, a fascicle of fibers; a fascicle of flowers or roots.  [1913 Webster]
  •  One of the divisions of a book published in parts; fasciculus.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

fascicle, n.
1 (also fascicule) a separately published instalment of a book, usu. not complete in itself.
2 a bunch or bundle.
3 (also fasciculus) Anat. a bundle of fibres.

Derivative
fascicled adj. fascicular adj. fasciculate adj. fasciculation n.
Etymology
L fasciculus bundle, dimin. of fascis: see FASCES

ROGET THESAURUS

fascicle

Assemblage

N assemblage, collection, collocation, colligation, compilation, levy, gathering, ingathering, muster, attroupement, team, concourse, conflux, congregation, contesseration, convergence, meeting, levee, reunion, drawing room, at home, conversazione, assembly, congress, convention, conventicle, gemote, conclave, posse, posse comitatus, Noah's ark, miscellany, collectanea, museum, menagerie, museology, crowd, throng, group, flood, rush, deluge, rabble, mob, press, crush, cohue, horde, body, tribe, crew, gang, knot, squad, band, party, swarm, shoal, school, covey, flock, herd, drove, atajo, bunch, drive, force, mulada, remuda, roundup, array, bevy, galaxy, corps, company, troop, troupe, task force, army, regiment, host, populousness, clan, brotherhood, fraternity, sorority, association, volley, shower, storm, cloud, group, cluster, Pleiades, clump, pencil, set, batch, lot, pack, budget, assortment, bunch, parcel, packet, package, bundle, fascine, fasces, bale, seron, seroon, fagot, wisp, truss, tuft, shock, rick, fardel, stack, sheaf, haycock, fascicle, fascicule, fasciculus, gavel, hattock, stook, accumulation, congeries, heap, lump, pile, rouleau, tissue, mass, pyramid, bing, drift, snowball, snowdrift, acervation, cumulation, glomeration, agglomeration, conglobation, conglomeration, conglomerate, coacervate, coacervation, coagmentation, aggregation, concentration, congestion, omnium gaterum, spicilegium, black hole of Calcutta, quantity, collector, gatherer, whip, whipper in, assembled, closely packed, dense, serried, crowded to suffocation, teeming, swarming, populous, as thick as hops, all of a heap, fasciculated cumulative, the plot thickens, acervatim, tibi seris tibi metis.


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