in architecture, signifies any flat member having a considerable breadth and but a small projection, as the band of an architrave, laminae, &c. In brick-buildings, the jottings out of the bricks beyond the windows in the several stories except the highest are called fascias, or fasciae.

astronomy, the belts seen on the disk of the superior planets Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. Fascia Lata, in anatomy, a muscle of the leg, called also semi-membranaceus. See Anatomy, Table of the Muscles.