formation
noun
1 formation
An arrangement of people or things acting as a unit.
Roget 240:
form,
figure,
shape;
conformation,
configuration;
make,
formation,
frame,
construction,
cut,
set,
build,
trim,
cut of one's jib;
stamp,
type,
cast,
mold;
fashion;
contour
etc.
(outline)
230;
structure
etc.
329;
plasmature†.
feature,
lineament,
turn;
phase
etc.
(aspect)
448;
posture,
attitude,
pose.
[Science of form]
morphism.
[Similarity of form]
isomorphism.
forming
etc.
v.;
formation,
figuration,
efformation†;
sculpture;
plasmation†.
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Dutch: formatie, opstelling, stelling
Polish: ugrupowanie
2 formation
The act of fabricating something in a particular shape.
synonym: shaping.
Polish: urobienie, wymodelowanie, uformowanie, ukształtowanie, nadanie kształtu
3 formation
The act of forming or establishing something.
synonyms: constitution, establishment, organisation, organization.
Roget 54:
composition,
constitution,
crasis†;
combination
etc.
48;
inclusion,
admission,
comprehension,
reception;
embodiment;
formation.
Roget 161:
production,
creation,
construction,
formation,
fabrication,
manufacture;
building,
architecture,
erection,
edification;
coinage;
diaster†;
organization;
nisus formativus [Lat.];
putting together
etc.
v.;
establishment;
workmanship,
performance;
achievement
etc.
(completion)
729.
flowering,
fructification;
inflorescence.
bringing forth
etc.
v.;
parturition,
birth,
birth-throe,
childbirth,
delivery,
confinement,
accouchement,
travail,
labor,
midwifery,
obstetrics;
geniture†;
gestation
etc.
(maturation)
673;
assimilation;
evolution,
development,
growth;
entelechy [Phil.];
fertilization,
gemination,
germination,
heterogamy [Biol.],
genesis,
generation,
epigenesis†,
procreation,
progeneration†,
propagation;
fecundation,
impregnation;
albumen
etc.
357.
spontaneous generation;
archegenesis†,
archebiosis†;
biogenesis,
abiogenesis†,
digenesis†,
dysmerogenesis†,
eumerogenesis†,
heterogenesis†,
oogenesis,
merogenesis†,
metogenesis†,
monogenesis†,
parthenogenesis,
homogenesis†,
xenogenesis1†;
authorship,
publication;
works,
opus,
oeuvre.
biogeny†,
dissogeny†,
xenogeny†;
tocogony†,
vacuolization.
edifice,
building,
structure,
fabric,
erection,
pile,
tower,
flower,
fruit.
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Dutch: bestel, installatie, organisatie, vestiging
Polish: utworzenie
4 formation
geology The geological features of the earth.
synonym: geological formation.
Polish: formacja, formacja geologiczna
5 formation
A particular spatial arrangement.
Dutch: vormsel
6 formation
Natural process that causes something to form.
7 formation
Creation by mental activity.
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