figures plural figurafigura s. f.1 shape or external appearance of a body: a square figure object; practice any sport whenever he can and keeps a figure drawn or graphical representation of a body estupenda.2: drew the figure of a perro.3 geometric space delimited by lines or planes: the sphere is a space, three-dimensional figure; the triangle is a figure of the plane, with two dimensiones.4 graphic representation illustrating certain concept cited in the text: the growth of the birth rate in that period of tiempo.5 piece of chess and other games of table shaped human, animal or cosa.6 playing card in a deck that represents a person can be seen in Figure 4,: the figures of the Spanish deck are the King, the horse and the sota.7 thing that symbolizes or represents another: the figure of peace is a White Dove with a sprig of olive in the musical sign pico.8 that represents the duration of each sound: the eighth note, the black and the white are figuras.9 altered the meaning of a Worda phrase or the structure of the discourse that is expressive or aesthetic purposes: figures are used in everyday language, in the media, literature and any other means of linguistic expression.
