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English
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin fōrmula (“a small pattern or mold, form, rule, principle, method, formula”), diminutive of forma (“a form”). See form.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈfɔː.mjʊ.lə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈfɔɹ.mjə.lə/
- Hyphenation: for‧mu‧la
Noun
formula (countable and uncountable, plural formulas or formulae or formulæ)
- (mathematics) Any mathematical rule expressed symbolically.
- Synonym: mathematical formula
- is a formula for finding the roots of the quadratic equation ax2 + bx + c = 0.
- Hyponyms: Brahmagupta's formula, Bretschneider's formula, Cauchy's integral formula, Cayley's formula, De Moivre's formula, Euler's formula, Faulhaber's formula, Heron's formula, haversine formula, Jacobi's formula, Legendre's formula, Stirling's formula, Vieta's formulas, Viète's formula
- (chemistry) A symbolic expression of the structure of a compound.
- Synonym: chemical formula
- H2O is the formula for water.
- A plan or method for dealing with a problem or for achieving a result.
- The company's winning formula includes excellent service and quality products.
- 2017 March 14, Stuart James, “Leicester stun Sevilla to reach last eight after Kasper Schmeichel save”, in the Guardian:
- Shakespeare has gone back to the formula of last season, by encouraging his players to press high up the pitch and restoring Shinji Okazaki to the starting XI to scurry around between midfield and attack.
- 2019 October, Ian Walmsley, “Cleaning up”, in Modern Railways, page 42:
- Delays, large and small, have a huge variety of causes, so there is no magic formula for preventing them.
- A formulation; a prescription; a mixture or solution made in a prescribed manner; the identity and quantities of ingredients of such a mixture.
- The formula of the rocket fuel has not been revealed.
- (chiefly linguistics) A fixed phrase or set of words intended to be interpeted non-literally, typically used attitudinally or as part of convention; a formulation.
- Avoid the typical epistolic formalae, such as "Kind regards".
- (Can we verify(+) this sense?) (especially religion) A formal statement of doctrine.
- 2004, Thomas Fisch, editor, Primary Readings on the Eucharist, Liturgical Press, →ISBN, footnote, page 34:
- The extract from the Missal of Constance, which was printed before the editio princeps […] does not contain the formulae for Advent, Sundays after Epiphany, Lent and the Sundays after Easter and Pentecost; […]
- (countable, uncountable) Ellipsis of infant formula, drink given to babies to substitute for mother's milk.
- They tried switching formulas, and it seemed to work: the baby seemed more content while feeding.
- 2018, Kristin Lawless, Formerly known as food, →ISBN:
- Many women advocate for formula, insisting that women who advocate breast-feeding have become self-righteous “lactavists,” as one writer puts it.
- (logic) A syntactic expression of a proposition, built up from quantifiers, logical connectives, variables, relation and operation symbols, and, depending on the type of logic, possibly other operators such as modal, temporal, deontic or epistemic ones.
- Hyponym: sentence
Derived terms
- Abel-Plana formula
- Abel's formula
- Abel's summation formula
- atomic formula
- baby formula
- Bailey-Borwein-Plouffe formula
- Balmer formula
- Barcan formula
- Bazin's formula
- BBP formula
- Bellard's formula
- Bethe formula
- Buridan formula
- Chézy formula
- Christoffel-Darboux formula
- closed formula
- condensed formula
- cosine formula
- counterformula
- d'Alembert's formula
- Darboux's formula
- de Moivre's formula
- dental formula
- distance formula
- empirical formula
- Euler-Maclaurin formula
- Euler's continued fraction formula
- Euler's polyhedron formula
- Faà di Bruno's formula
- floral formula
- formula architecture
- formula investing
- formula investor
- Formula One
- formula plan
- formula racing
- formulary
- formulate
- formulation
- formula unit
- formulist
- formulize
- Fortran
- Gauss's area formula
- general formula
- Hadjicostas's formula
- Kekule formula
- Kekulé formula
- Kingman's formula
- Klein-Nishina formula
- Lagrange's interpolation formula
- Larmor formula
- Liouville's formula
- Manning formula
- molecular formula
- multiformula
- Newton-Cotes formula
- offering formula
- Perron's formula
- Pollaczek-Khinchine formula
- prime formula
- quadratic formula
- Rand formula
- Rydberg formula
- shoelace formula
- sine formula
- skeletal formula
- stereoformula
- structural formula
- subformula
- superformula
- surveyor's formula
- Sylvester's formula
- Trinitarian formula
- trinitarian formula
- Tupper's self-referential formula
- Vieta's formula
- Voronoi formula
- well-formed formula
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Descendants
Translations
in mathematics
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in chemistry
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plan or method for dealing with a problem or for achieving a result
formulation, prescription
formal statement of doctrine
drink given to babies
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Further reading
- “formula”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “formula”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
Formula in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
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Pronunciation
Verb
formula
- inflection of formular:
Crimean Tatar
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin formula (“small form”), from forma (“form”).
Noun
formula
Declension
References
- Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002), Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary], Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN
Finnish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
formula
- (motor racing) a Formula One racing car
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading
- “formula”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023
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Pronunciation
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Verb
formula
- third-person singular past historic of formuler
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