# Form

Form is the shape, visual appearance, or configuration of an object. In a wider sense, the form is the way something happens.
Form may also refer to:
* Form (document), a document (printed or electronic) with spaces in which to write or enter data
* Form (architecture), a combination of external appearance, internal structure, and the unity of the design
* Form (education), a class, set, or group of students
* Form (religion), an academic term for prescriptions or norms on religious practice
* Form, a shallow depression or flattened nest of grass used by a hare
* Form, or rap sheet, slang for a criminal record

## People

* Andrew Form, American film producer
* Fluent Form, Australian rapper and hip hop musician

## Arts, entertainment, and media

* Form (arts organisation), a Western Australian arts organisation
* Form (visual art), a three-dimensional geometrical figure; one of the seven elements of art
* Poetic form, a set of structural rules and patterns to which a poem may adhere
* Musical form, a generic type of composition or the structure of a particular piece
* The Forms (band), an American indie rock band

## Computing and technology

* Form (computer virus), the most common computer virus of the 1990s
* Form (HTML), a document form used on a web page to, typically, submit user data to a server
* Form (programming), a component-based representation of a GUI window
* FORM (symbolic manipulation system), a program for symbolic computations
* Google Forms, cloud-based survey software
* Oracle Forms, a Rapid Application Development environment for developing database applications
* Windows Forms, the graphical API within the Microsoft .NET Framework for access to native Microsoft Windows interface elements
* XForms, an XML format for the specification of user interfaces, specifically web forms
* Form Energy, an American energy storage startup company. It is focused on utility-scale iron-air batteries.

## Martial arts

* Kata (型 or 形), the detailed pattern of defence-and-attack
* Taeguk (Taekwondo) (형), the "forms" used to create a foundation for the teaching of Taekwondo
* Taolu (套路), forms used in Chinese martial arts and sport wushu

## Mathematics

* Algebraic form (homogeneous polynomial), which generalises quadratic forms to degrees 3 and more, also known as quantics or simply forms
* Bilinear form, on a vector space V over a field F is a mapping V × V → F that is linear in both arguments
* Differential form, a concept from differential topology that combines multilinear forms and smooth functions
* First-order reliability method, a semi-probabilistic reliability analysis method devised to evaluate the reliability of a system
* Indeterminate form, an algebraic expression that cannot be used to evaluate a limit
* Modular form, a (complex) analytic function on the upper half plane satisfying a certain kind of functional equation and growth condition
* Multilinear form, which generalises bilinear forms to mappings V$^N$ → F
* Quadratic form, a homogeneous polynomial of degree two in a number of variables

## Philosophy

* Argument form, a.k.a. Logical form or Test form - replacing the different words, or sentences, that make up the argument with letters, along the lines of algebra; the letters represent logical variables
* Intelligible form, a substantial form as it is apprehended by the intellect
* Substantial form, asserts that ideas organize matter and make it intelligible
* Theory of forms, asserts that ideas possess the highest and most fundamental kind of reality
* Value-form, an approach to understanding the origins of commodity trade and the formation of markets

## Science

* Form (botany), a formal taxon at a rank lower than species
* Form (zoology), informal taxa used sometimes in zoology
* Form, object of study of Morphology
* "-form", a term used in science to describe large groups, often used in taxonomy
* Isoform, several different forms of the same protein

## Sports

* Form (exercise), a proper way of performing an exercise
* Form (horse racing), or racing form, a record of a racehorse's performance
* Kata, a choreographed pattern of martial arts movements made to be practised alone

## Other uses

* Form (cigarette), a Finnish cigarette brand
* Form, a backless bench formerly used for seating in dining halls, school rooms and courtrooms
* Form, the relation a word has to a lexeme
* Formwork, a mold used for concrete construction