What's quarter-sawn? 'Figured' wood comes from the cut.

Some people will just never 'figure' out that what we choose to call things is all just made up. That's what I'm talking about when I say that language is arbitrary; that is to say, words are picked out of the thin air for us to use as a designation to verbally describe an idea. All systems of expression are built on equally sandy bedrock. Let x= whateveryouwant. Or let's use n, instead. x, n, p, or q:
call something whatever you like, but stop trying to make me adopt your silly labels (standardization for scientific procedure notwithstanding). This is one of the surprising things about addressing a large audience: there are just so many advocacy groups for tiny ideas, and they all like to demand that you adopt their jargon. Call it what you want with wood, but fancy labels put aside at the end of the day, it's just an interesting optical quality.

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"Secret Of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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