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formula
has definitions from the fields of mathematics,chemistry,food
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[ noun ] (mathematics) a group of symbols that make a mathematical statement
Synonyms Used in print (Grants-in-Aid and Other Financial Assistance...)As is the case with the allotment provisions for support of vocational rehabilitation services , the matching requirements are also based on a statutory formula . (A.L. Kroeber, "Semantic Contribution of Lexicostatistic...)His formula will have to be weighed , may be altered or improved , and it should be tested on additional bodies of material . |
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[ noun ] directions for making something
Synonyms Used in print (The New York Times,...)A formula to supply players for the new Minneapolis_Vikings and the problem of increasing the 1961 schedule to fourteen games will be discussed by National_Football_League owners at a meeting at the Hotel_Warwick today . (William G. Pollard, Physicist and Christian....)The tragic irony of the play is that the very belief in and concern with a devil who could be met in the woods and combatted with formulae set_out in books was the very thing that prevented them from detecting the real devil when he came among them . |
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[ noun ] a conventionalized statement expressing some fundamental principle
Used in print (Rocky Mountains News, [Denver, Colorado],...)The Giants who had been anemic with the bat in their windy Candlestick_Park suddenly found the formula in Milwaukee 's park . ("Editorials"...)A more dangerous formula for national frustration cannot be imagined . |
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[ noun ] something regarded as a normative example
Synonyms Examples "the convention of not naming the main character" "violence is the rule not the exception" "his formula for impressing visitors" Related terms |
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[ noun ] (chemistry) a representation of a substance using symbols for its constituent elements
Synonyms Used in print (James A. Ibers et al., "Proton magnetic resonance...)X-ray and experimental density showed one formula unit in the unit_cell , corresponding to a paramagnetic ion density of **f . Related terms statement empirical_formula molecular_formula chemical_notation formularize |
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[ noun ] (food) a liquid food for infants
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[ noun ] (mathematics) a standard procedure for solving a class of mathematical problems
Synonyms Examples "he determined the upper bound with Descartes' rule of signs" "he gave us a general formula for attacking polynomials" |
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