formula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔː.mjʊ.lə/
ipa: /ˈfɔɹ.mjə.lə/
Forms: form: formulas
form: formulae
form: formulæ
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin fōrmula (“a small pattern or mold, form, rule, principle, method, formula”), diminutive of forma (“a form”). See form.
Senses: examples: x=(-b±√)/(2a) is a formula for finding the roots of the quadratic equation ax² + bx + c = 0.
topics: mathematics
sciences
synonyms: mathematical formula
glosses: Any mathematical rule expressed symbolically.
examples: text: H₂O is the formula for water.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: chemical formula
glosses: A symbolic expression of the structure of a compound.
examples: text: The company's winning formula includes excellent service and quality products.
text: 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.
ref: 2017 March 14, Stuart James, “Leicester stun Sevilla to reach last eight after Kasper Schmeichel save”, in the Guardian:
text: Delays, large and small, have a huge variety of causes, so there is no magic formula for preventing them.
ref: 2019 October, Ian Walmsley, “Cleaning up”, in Modern Railways, page 42:
glosses: A plan or method for dealing with a problem or for achieving a result.
examples: text: The formula of the rocket fuel has not been revealed.
glosses: A formulation; a prescription; a mixture or solution made in a prescribed manner; the identity and quantities of ingredients of such a mixture.
examples: text: Avoid the typical epistolic formalae, such as "Kind regards".
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A fixed phrase or set of words intended to be interpeted non-literally, typically used attitudinally or as part of convention; a formulation.
examples: text: 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; […]
ref: 2004, Thomas Fisch, editor, Primary Readings on the Eucharist, Liturgical Press, →ISBN, footnote, page 34:
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: A formal statement of doctrine.
examples: text: They tried switching formulas, and it seemed to work: the baby seemed more content while feeding.
text: Many women advocate for formula, insisting that women who advocate breast-feeding have become self-righteous “lactavists,” as one writer puts it.
ref: 2018, Kristin Lawless, Formerly known as food, →ISBN:
glosses: Ellipsis of infant formula, drink given to babies to substitute for mother's milk.
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: 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.
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
Related terms: form
formulaic
formulism