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faceting

faceting

6.6
Organizing items into groups so people can filter and find them
  • noun
  • /ˈfæsɪtɪŋ/
  • Specialized
translation icon : organización
  • Effective faceting in online stores can significantly improve the shopping experience.

Examples

  • Like the missing form/genre subdivisions discussed above, missing or incorrect values in certain positions of the fixed fields cause system-specific issues for format limiting and faceting.

    Academic text (2013)

  • Although e-books do not require a call number for shelf placement, many discovery systems rely on Library of Congress call number information for search faceting.

    Academic text (2013)

  • I want the faceting feature to be implemented.

    Blog text (31)

  • But I still do not know how to do faceting on data already indexed by Nutch.

    Blog text (31)

  • These missing subdivisions would have caused collocation issues in the traditional library catalog and would have caused incorrect format faceting in the library's discovery layer, Ex Libris's Primo.

    Academic text (2013)

  • The faceting of search results helps users easily find what they are looking for.

  • Our website's faceting allows customers to filter products by size, color, and price.

Synonyms

sort
vsfaceting
∞ 1.3

An act of putting items into groups by size or color

creates category-based filters to let users narrow and find results
sorting
vsfaceting
22 2.0

A way of arranging things into groups by shared features

organizes categories to support filtering and easier navigation
indexing
vsfaceting
  • Specialized
5 4.1

Organising documents and making a list so people can find them quickly

groups results into categories so users can filter and browse easily
bucketing
vsfaceting
  • Specialized
1 4.8

Putting items into groups that have the same features

is focused on making filters so users can navigate results

Antonyms

chaos
438 3.1

A situation with no order where people are confused and cannot act normally

disorganization
  • US
7 3.8

A lack of order or system that makes things untidy

Surface Forms

faceting singular
facets plural

Morphology

faceting = facet (semi-transparent) = facet + ing

The form is built from 'facet' + '-ing', but the categorization sense is a specialized metaphor from the literal idea of facets.

Etymology

Faceting comes from the same root as face, where a 'face' can mean a 'side' or 'aspect'. In websites and search tools, faceting means giving items different 'sides' (like color or size) so you can filter and find what you want more easily.