Formation definition

fôr-māshən
formations
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The act or process of forming something or of taking form.
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An arrangement or positioning, as of troops, ships, airplanes in flight, football players, etc.
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A forming or being formed.
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The way in which something is formed or arranged; structure.
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A specified arrangement or deployment, as of aircraft, troops, or players on a sports team.
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A long, mappable body of rock that is recognizable by its physical characteristics and by its location within the rock record.
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(geology) A primary unit in the mapping of rock strata, consisting of a set of contemporaneous rocks having the same characteristics and origin.
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(ecol.) The major unit of vegetation usually extending over a large area, as the prairie, deciduous forest, tundra, etc.
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(geol.) A rock unit distinguished from adjacent deposits by some common character, as composition, origin, type of fossil, etc.
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A thing formed.
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Something formed.

Beautiful cloud formations.

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The manner or style in which something is formed; structure.

The distinctive formation of the human eye.

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Formation is defined as an arrangement, the way something is arranged or a coming together.

An example of a formation is group of soldiers marching as a group.

An example of a formation is a set of rocks that has lasted through the centuries.

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Something possessing structure or form.
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The act of assembling a group or structure.
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(geology) A rock or face of a mountain.
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(military) A grouping of military units or smaller formations under a command, such as a brigade, division, wing, etc.
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(military) An arrangement of moving troops, ships, or aircraft, such as a wedge, line abreast, or echelon. Often "in formation".
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The process of influencing or guiding a person to a deeper understanding of a particular vocation.
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Noun

Singular:
formation
Plural:
formations

Origin of formation

  • From Old French formacion, from Latin formatio, from formare (“to form”); see form as verb.

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Formation Sentence Examples

  • Their formation is carboniferous limestone.

  • The formation of a film is noted.

  • In other cases, a similar formation of spongy but dead periderm tissue may occur for the same purpose in special patches, called pneumatodes, on the roots of certain trees living in marshy places, which rise above the soil in order to obtain air.

  • The increase in surface of the cell wall is thus duefirstly to the stretching caused by turgidity, and secondly to the formation and deposition of new substance upon the old.

  • The next change observable after some hours is that the untouched cells below the cut grow larger, push tip the dead surface, and divide by walls tangential to it, with the formation of tabloid cork-cells.

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