Shape

Shape

The shape (Old English: gesceap, created thing) of an object located in some space is a geometrical description of the part of that space occupied by the object, as determined by its external boundary – abstracting from location and orientation in space, size, and other properties such as colour, content, and material composition.

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    his fear of the word “veil”;
    and in the shape of a ship,
    still another who slept.
    —Joáo Cabral De Melo Neto (b. 1920)

    Man is not merely the sum of his masks. Behind the shifting face of personality is a hard nugget of self, a genetic gift.... The self is malleable but elastic, snapping back to its original shape like a rubber band. Mental illness is no myth, as some have claimed. It is a disturbance in our sense of possession of a stable inner self that survives its personae.
    Camille Paglia (b. 1947)

    But her shape is the least of my madness; she has things by which it is more pleasing to die.
    Propertius Sextus (c. 50–16 B.C.)