facial index

1. 1.

   the ratio (in percent) of the maximum width to the maximum height of the face

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Questions about facial index

What does facial index mean?

facial index means "the ratio (in percent) of the maximum width to the maximum height of the face".

Is facial index a common word?

facial index is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.