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Figure AI
Figure AI is a California robotics company founded by Brett Adcock in 2022 that develops autonomous humanoid robots and the Helix AI system that controls them.
Figure AI valuation surge
The Figure AI valuation surge was the September 2025 Series C in which the humanoid robotics company raised over $1 billion at a $39 billion valuation, roughly 15 times its 2024 mark.
Figure Helix
Helix is a vision-language-action model family from the robotics company Figure, announced in February 2025 and extended in January 2026 with Helix 02 for full-body control of its humanoid robots.
Figure It Out
Figure It Out is a Nickelodeon children's panel game show, hosted by Summer Sanders, that ran from 1997 to 1999 and was revived in 2012.
Figure of speech
Figure of speech: an expression used with metaphorical rather than literal meaning, also called figurative language or trope. Covers schemes vs tropes, types like metaphor, simile, metonymy, its classical rhetoric history, and modern NLP detection research.
Figure of the Earth
Figure of the Earth, also called the shape of the Earth, is the model geodesy uses for the planet's form: an oblate spheroid plus the geoid.
Figure painting
Figure painting (人物画, renwu hua) is the major Chinese painting genre in which the human figure is the principal subject, one of three classical divisions alongside landscape and bird-and-flower painting.
Figure skating
Figure skating: judged ice sport with singles, pairs, ice dance, and synchronized disciplines, governed by the ISU since 1892, scored under the International Judging System (TES plus PCS) introduced after the 2002 scandal.
Figure skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Figure skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics, Salt Lake City: pairs gold first went 5-4 to Russia's Berezhnaya and Sikharulidze over Canada's Salé and Pelletier; a French-judge vote-trading scandal led to duplicate gold medals and the Code of Points judging system.
Figure skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics – Pair skating
Pair skating at the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics, the pairs figure skating event won by Russia's Berezhnaya and Sikharulidze over Canada's Salé and Pelletier in a 5-4 vote, later annulled into dual gold medals after French judge Marie-Reine Le Gougne's vote-trading fraud, prompting the ISU's International Judging System.
Figure skating at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Figure skating at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics: five events including the debut team event won by Russia; Adelina Sotnikova, 17, beat Yuna Kim 224.59 to 219.11 for ladies' gold, sparking a judging controversy and South Korean ISU complaint.
Figure skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Figure skating at the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics, held 9–25 February 2018 at Gangneung Ice Arena: five events (men's, ladies, pairs, ice dance, team), ISU judging system with nine-judge trimmed mean, Zagitova's record 82.92 short program, and Chen's five quadruple jumps.
Figure skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics
Figure skating at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics: five events at Capital Indoor Stadium, ROC won six medals, and the Kamila Valieva trimetazidine doping case canceled team medals and led to 2024 re-ranking.
Figure skating at the 2026 Winter Olympics
Figure skating at the 2026 Winter Olympics (Milano Cortina 2026), February 6–19 at the Milano Ice Skating Arena: five events, USA won team gold and Alysa Liu women's gold, Mikhail Shaydorov men's gold, Japan pairs, France ice dance.
Figure skating at the 2026 Winter Olympics – Ice dance
Ice dance at the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics, held February 9 and 11, 2026. Gold: Fournier Beaudry/Cizeron (France, 225.82); silver Chock/Bates (USA, 224.39); bronze Gilles/Poirier (Canada).
Figure skating at the 2026 Winter Olympics – Men's singles
Men's singles figure skating at Milano Cortina 2026, held 10 and 13 February 2026 with 29 skaters; Ilia Malinin led the short program at 108.16 but finished eighth after popping his quad axel.
Figure skating at the 2026 Winter Olympics – Pair skating
Pair skating at Milano Cortina 2026, held 15-16 February at Milano Ice Skating Arena; Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara won Japan's first Olympic pairs gold with 231.24, ahead of Georgia's Metelkina/Berulava and Germany's Hase/Volodin.
Figure skating at the 2026 Winter Olympics – Team event
The mixed-gender figure skating team event at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milano Cortina ran February 6–8, 2026; the U.S. won gold, Japan took silver, and Italy won bronze.
Figure skating at the 2026 Winter Olympics – Women's singles
Women's singles figure skating at Milano Cortina 2026, held 17 and 19 February at Milano Ice Skating Arena; 29 skaters from 21 NOCs. Alysa Liu (USA) won gold, Kaori Sakamoto and Ami Nakai (Japan) silver and bronze.
Figure skating at the Olympic Games
Figure skating at the Olympic Games: five medal events (men's and women's singles, pairs, ice dance, team event) under the ISU Judging System; debuted at the 1908 London Summer Olympics, permanent since Chamonix 1924.
Figure skating jumps
Figure skating jumps: the six ISU-recognized jumps (toe loop, Salchow, loop, flip, Lutz, Axel), split into edge and toe pick-assisted takeoffs, with quad base values 9.5 to 12.5 points and the Axel as the only forward-takeoff jump.
Figure skating lifts
Figure skating lifts: partner-carrying elements in pair skating and ice dance. Pair lifts use five grip-based groups (armpit, waist, hand-to-hip, hand-to-hand, lasso) with base values 1.40-7.00; ice dance lifts are non-overhead, classified as stationary, curve, straight line, or rotational.
Figure skating spins
Figure skating spins: rotational elements in upright, camel, and sit positions, scored under the ISU Code of Points with base values and GOE; sit spin credited to Jackson Haines.
Figure skating spirals
Figure skating spirals: a glide on one foot with the free leg extended behind above hip level, derived from ballet's arabesque. Also called spiral sequences; distinguished from spins by gliding without rotation; defined in ISU regulations and showcased by Michelle Kwan and Sasha Cohen.
Figure Technology Solutions
Figure Technology Solutions is an American financial technology company founded in 2018 by SoFi co-founder Mike Cagney, best known for originating home equity lines of credit on a blockchain.
Figured bass
Figured bass, also called thoroughbass or basso continuo, is Baroque shorthand notation in which numbers under a bass line indicate intervals to be played above it; performers improvised chords from the figures, and the system survives today as chord-inversion symbols in music theory teaching.
Figurehead
Figurehead: a person holding a leadership title without real power, from the carved figure on a ship's bow; typical of constitutional monarchs and ceremonial heads of state.
Figures of Light
Figures of Light is an American proto-punk band formed in 1970 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, known for a 1970 debut show where members smashed 15 television sets onstage.
Figwit
Figwit is the fan-coined name ("Frodo is grea...who is THAT?!?") for the unnamed Elf extra played by Bret McKenzie at the Council of Elrond in The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), a three-second cameo that became an early internet fandom phenomenon and earned a speaking role in Return of the King.
Fijar War
The Fijar War (حرب الفجار), the "sacrilegious war", was a pre-Islamic Arabian conflict between Quraysh and Kinana and the Hawazin, named for fighting during the sacred months.