formatage

French

Etymology

From formater +‎ -age.

Pronunciation

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Noun

formatage m (plural formatages)

1. (computing) the act of formatting
2. (derogatory) the act of restraining someone in a certain fixed way/manner of thought/thinking (cf. set in one's ways)

Further reading

• “formatage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.