"facultative" meaning in English

See facultative in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ˈfæ.kəl.tə.tɪv/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈfæ.kəlˌteɪ.tɪv/ [General-American] Forms: more facultative [comparative], most facultative [superlative]
Etymology: From French facultatif. By surface analysis, faculty + -ative. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|fr|facultatif}} French facultatif, {{surf|en|faculty|-ative}} By surface analysis, faculty + -ative Head templates: {{en-adj}} facultative (comparative more facultative, superlative most facultative)
  1. Of or relating to faculty, especially to mental faculty. Translations (of or relating to faculty): kyvykkyys- (Finnish), kyky- (Finnish), fähig (German), kabiliyetli (Turkish), yetenekli (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-facultative-en-adj-AGcomoEu Categories (other): English terms suffixed with -ative Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ative: 11 32 5 34 18 Disambiguation of 'of or relating to faculty': 87 5 4 2 2
  2. Not obligate; optional, discretionary or elective. Synonyms: optional Translations (not obligate; optional): կամընտրական (kaməntrakan) (Armenian), неабавязко́вы (njeabavjazkóvy) (Belarusian), факултативен (fakultativen) (Bulgarian), незадължителен (nezadǎlžitelen) (Bulgarian), facultatief (Dutch), fakultativa (Esperanto), valinnainen (Finnish), vapaaehtoinen (Finnish), facultatif (French), fakultativ (German), optional (German), fakultativa (Ido), fakultatif (Indonesian), факультативтік (fakultativtık) (Kazakh), facultativo (Portuguese), необяза́тельный (neobjazátelʹnyj) (Russian), факультати́вный (fakulʹtatívnyj) (Russian), facultativo (Spanish), ihtiyarî (Turkish), istemli (Turkish), seçmeli (Turkish), необов'язко́вий (neobovʺjazkóvyj) (Ukrainian)
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  3. That grants permission or power to do something. Translations (granting permission): salliva (Finnish), myöntävä (Finnish), freigestellt (German), isteğe bağlı (Turkish), istemli (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-facultative-en-adj-cmiykoot Disambiguation of 'granting permission': 1 14 57 10 18
  4. (biology) Able to perform a particular life function, or to live generally, in more than one way. Categories (topical): Biology Translations (able to perform a particular life function): fakultatiivinen (Finnish)
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  5. (geometry, of a point) At which a given function is positive. Categories (topical): Geometry
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: facultatively
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}
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    "Terms with Belarusian translations",
    "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
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    "Terms with Esperanto translations",
    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with French translations",
    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Ido translations",
    "Terms with Indonesian translations",
    "Terms with Kazakh translations",
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    "Terms with Spanish translations",
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          "word": "requisite"
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          "ref": "1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1959, →OCLC:",
          "text": "But does the penny fare end here, said Mr. Nixon, at a merely facultative stop? Surely it ends rather at the station.",
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          "ref": "2020, Jonathan Mance et al., editors, Insurance Disputes, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 584:",
          "text": "The policy would be a “facultative” policy, whereby the insurers would first have assessed the risk involved in the particular shipment and decided to accept it.",
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      "glosses": [
        "That grants permission or power to do something."
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      ],
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        {
          "text": "facultative feeder",
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        {
          "ref": "1993, Hachiro Oku, Plant Pathogenesis and Disease Control, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 10:",
          "text": "This hypothesis might be supported by the evidence that there are varieties of pathogenic fungi of which parasitism is in varying degrees, between obligate parasitic and facultative parasitic. The facultative parasite, which usually lives as a saprophyte but under some conditions can parasitize on a plant, seems to be a pathogen with the lowest parasitic adaptation.",
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        "Able to perform a particular life function, or to live generally, in more than one way."
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        "(biology) Able to perform a particular life function, or to live generally, in more than one way."
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          "ref": "1866, George Salmon, Lessons Introductory to the Modern Higher Algebra, Dublin: Hodges, Smith, and Co., page 197:",
          "text": "For then it is seen, as before, that it is the points outside the two sheets which are facultative, and not the points between the surface and the touching plane.",
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        "At which a given function is positive."
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        "Received-Pronunciation"
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    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "of or relating to faculty",
      "word": "kyvykkyys-"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "of or relating to faculty",
      "word": "kyky-"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "of or relating to faculty",
      "word": "fähig"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "of or relating to faculty",
      "word": "kabiliyetli"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "of or relating to faculty",
      "word": "yetenekli"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "kaməntrakan",
      "sense": "not obligate; optional",
      "word": "կամընտրական"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "njeabavjazkóvy",
      "sense": "not obligate; optional",
      "word": "неабавязко́вы"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "fakultativen",
      "sense": "not obligate; optional",
      "word": "факултативен"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "nezadǎlžitelen",
      "sense": "not obligate; optional",
      "word": "незадължителен"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "not obligate; optional",
      "word": "facultatief"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "not obligate; optional",
      "word": "fakultativa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "not obligate; optional",
      "word": "valinnainen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "not obligate; optional",
      "word": "vapaaehtoinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "not obligate; optional",
      "word": "facultatif"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "not obligate; optional",
      "word": "fakultativ"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "not obligate; optional",
      "word": "optional"
    },
    {
      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "not obligate; optional",
      "word": "fakultativa"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "not obligate; optional",
      "word": "fakultatif"
    },
    {
      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "roman": "fakultativtık",
      "sense": "not obligate; optional",
      "word": "факультативтік"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "not obligate; optional",
      "word": "facultativo"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "neobjazátelʹnyj",
      "sense": "not obligate; optional",
      "word": "необяза́тельный"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "fakulʹtatívnyj",
      "sense": "not obligate; optional",
      "word": "факультати́вный"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "not obligate; optional",
      "word": "facultativo"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "not obligate; optional",
      "word": "ihtiyarî"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "not obligate; optional",
      "word": "istemli"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "not obligate; optional",
      "word": "seçmeli"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "neobovʺjazkóvyj",
      "sense": "not obligate; optional",
      "word": "необов'язко́вий"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "granting permission",
      "word": "salliva"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "granting permission",
      "word": "myöntävä"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "granting permission",
      "word": "freigestellt"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "granting permission",
      "word": "isteğe bağlı"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "granting permission",
      "word": "istemli"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "able to perform a particular life function",
      "word": "fakultatiivinen"
    }
  ],
  "word": "facultative"
}

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