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💎 Having flat sides 🔍 With filter options
faceted

faceted

6.6
Allowing users to narrow search results by choosing filters like category or price
  • adjective
  • /ˈfæsɪtɪd/
  • Specialized
translation icon : filtrado
  • The new website features a faceted search tool that allows users to filter results by price, brand, and category.
  • faceted search

Examples

  • Being enumerative and faceted, UDC stands at the third position. CC, for being a pure faceted scheme with complex notations and rules, is ranked at the fourth position.

    Academic text (2017)

  • Using a faceted navigation system, customers can easily refine their searches to find exactly what they want.

  • There are very limited faceted search applications of UDC, and therefore it stands at fifth position.

    Academic text (2017)

  • Also, the categories under which the websites are kept need to be revised because there can be faceted and intra-hierarchical links among web pages.

    Academic text (2017)

  • Jetter et al.'s solution used a combination of faceted navigation and filter-flow visualization, showing how many constraints are met by a set of items, given certain constraints.

    Academic text (2011)

  • The faceted search interface simplifies the process of narrowing down options for users browsing through various products.

Compounds

many-faceted career
5.3

A career that includes many different jobs and skills

Surface Forms

faceted positive

Morphology

faceted = facet (semi-transparent) = facet + ed

While derived from 'facet', the use in computing is metaphorical, referring to a structured approach to filtering.

Etymology

Faceted comes from the word facet, which means 'little face' and is related to the everyday word face. So a faceted search or menu gives you many small 'faces' or sides of the results, like brand or price, so you can choose one part to look at.