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comparative more facultative, superlative most facultative
Of or relating to faculty, especially to mental faculty. examples
Not obligate; optional, discretionary or elective. quotations examples
But does the penny fare end here, said Mr. Nixon, at a merely facultative stop? Surely it ends rather at the station.
1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, Olympia Press
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.
2020, Jonathan Mance et al., editors, Insurance Disputes, Taylor & Francis, page 584
That grants permission or power to do something. examples
(biology) Able to perform a particular life function, or to live generally, in more than one way. quotations
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 adaption.
1993, Hachiro Oku, Plant Pathogenesis and Disease Control, CRC Press, page 10
(geometry, of a point) At which a given function is positive. quotations examples
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.
1866, George Salmon, Lessons Introductory to the Modern Higher Algebra, Dublin: Hodges, Smith, and Co., page 197