figure of eight

Questions about figure of eight

What does figure of eight mean?

figure of eight means "a two-dimensionsal figure having the shape of the number eight". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for figure of eight?

Close synonyms include figure eight, figure 8, figure eight. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is figure of eight a common word?

figure of eight 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.