figuration

noun6

1. •
   The act of giving figure or determinate form.
2. •
   Representation through visual forms.
3. •
   Mixture of concords and discords.

   • Here and throughout, variation infuses the music, Chopin’s innovative, elastic figuration masking the underlying similarity of bars 23 and 25. — 1997
4. •
   Form, outline or boundaries.
5. •
   Ornamentation or decoration, especially by the addition of figures.
6. •
   A structure through which people are joined, or the process of constructing such structures.