formulation
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- noun
- /ˌfɔrmjʊˈleɪʃən/
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- His clear and concise formulation of the problem made it easier for everyone to understand.
- more abstract formulations
- theoretical formulations
- textual formulations
It's such a clean, beautiful, Einstein like formulation of the challenge before us, right.
- It's such a clean, beautiful, Einstein like formulation of the challenge before us, right.
- They don't involve the kind of language that, that that we have the right to expect in a formulation of a fundamental physical theory.
- And the Stoics did in fact assert what we call the equality of goods if we want to use Cicero's formulation and the Stoic paradoxes.
- So that that question of suicide, by the way, do you, do you find that formulation of the question of existentialism?
Examples
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I find Case's formulation, like Butler's discussion of the liberating nature of drag, problematic.
Fiction book (1993) -
But what I want to do just before that is to give you the general formulation of a linear program.
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And yeah, really nice formulation, really, really nice colour.
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And the people in that, in that formulation have to have a definite content.
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It's such a clean, beautiful, Einstein like formulation of the challenge before us, right.
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Consensus means much less than any of these formulations suggest.
Academic text (1990) -
So that is a gorgeous, gorgeous formulation for an eyeliner.
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I have never forgotten my mother's formulation of Jack Rafter's life's work.
Fiction book (2002) -
The title includes an existing, well-known phrase, and plays with its meaning and/or its exact formulation.
Academic text (1996) -
Specifically, it examines violence and assumptions of violence in the classic formulations of the central Christian doctrines of atonement and Christology.
Academic text (2001)
Synonyms
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3.4
The way someone shows thoughts and feelings in speech and writing
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The way words are used to express an idea
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3.4
How words are chosen and put together to show meaning
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The words and expressions someone uses to say ideas in a particular style
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Putting thoughts or feelings into words so others can understand them
Antonyms
How Clear
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Formulation shares the root with form and formula, words that mean a set 'way' of doing or saying something. So a formulation is the exact 'way of expressing' an idea or choosing the right words.