The phrase "a thousand facets" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that has many different aspects or dimensions, often in a metaphorical sense.
Example: "The issue of climate change has a thousand facets, each requiring careful consideration and action."
Alternatives: "many dimensions" or "numerous aspects".
This effectively converts the superposition eye into an apposition eye, since in the dark-adapted condition up to a thousand facets may contribute to the image at any one point on the retina, potentially reducing the retinal illumination a thousandfold.
However, when I run the busy Copacabana beach avenue and see a thousand facets of this human characteristic reflected back to me, I wonder how we ever made it this far.
When I started Kate Moss's biography, I read a beautiful sentence from Virginia Woolf that said that a person had a thousand facets so writing a biography was something totally absurd and pretentious.
In order to exhibit the same resolution as is typical with camera-type lens eyes, a human being would require compound eyes a meter across and comprised of a million facets (only about 100 are shown for simplicity).
This study applied a three facet diagnostic criteria to confirm the occurrence of refeeding syndrome in adults started on artificial nutrition support.
By opening night, the orchestra had discovered a thousand new facets: the performance was more fleet and varied, more hair-trigger, more comically responsive, awake and alive.
Neisseria meningitidis (Nme) is a strictly human pathogen that has two facets, a benign and a devastating one.
Over in a corner were several abstract shapes that showed the printer's raw potential a Möbius cube that is too complex to mold by hand, and a fractal of a snowflake with roughly a million individual facets.
A study of three facets of the black-market economy: the marijuana and pornography businesses and the plight of illegal immigrants.
It has a smooth ridge that divides its articular surface into two facets: a triangular lateral facet, which connects with the scaphoid (a wrist bone), and a quadrilateral medial facet, which connects with the lunate (another wrist bone).
A functional atlas (or atlas for brevity) of G, denoted by A, is a set of facets that represents distinctive functional landscapes of G. Figure 1 depicts an atlas of three facets, with each facet decomposing the network into three functional modules.
