formula
English
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Etymology
Borrowed from Latin formula (“a small pattern or mold, form, rule, principle, method, formula”), diminutive of forma (“a form”); see form.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈfɔː.mjʊ.lə/
Audio (UK) (file)
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈfɔɹ.mjə.lə/
Noun
formula (plural formulae or formulas or formulæ)
- (mathematics) Any mathematical rule expressed symbolically.
- Synonym: mathematical formula
- is a formula for finding the roots of the quadratic equation ax2 + bx + c = 0.
- (chemistry) A symbolic expression of the structure of a compound.
- Synonym: chemical formula
- H2O is the formula for water.
- A plan or method for dealing with a problem or for achieving a result.
- The company's winning formula includes excellent service and quality products.
- 2017 March 14, Stuart James, “Leicester stun Sevilla to reach last eight after Kasper Schmeichel save”, in the Guardian[1]:
- 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.
- 2019 October, Ian Walmsley, “Cleaning up”, in Modern Railways, page 42:
- Delays, large and small, have a huge variety of causes, so there is no magic formula for preventing them.
- A formulation; a prescription; a mixture or solution made in a prescribed manner; the identity and quantities of ingredients of such a mixture.
- The formula of the rocket fuel has not been revealed.
- A formal statement of doctrine, as in religion.
- (countable, uncountable) Ellipsis of infant formula.; drink given to babies to substitute for mother's milk.
- 2018, Kristin Lawless, Formerly known as food, →ISBN, page 85:
- Before the early 1900s, mothers who couldn't breast-feed for medical reasons didn't have the option of infant formula and often used wet nurses, or women who were employed to breast-feed children other than their own.
- (logic) 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.
- Hyponym: sentence
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
in mathematics
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in chemistry
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plan or method for dealing with a problem or for achieving a result
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formulation, prescription
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drink given to babies
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logic: syntactic expression of a proposition
Further reading
- “formula”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “formula”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Catalan
Verb
formula
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Crimean Tatar
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin formula (“small form”), from forma (“form”).
Noun
formula
Declension
Declension of formula
nominative | formula |
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genitive | formulanıñ |
dative | formulağa |
accusative | formulanı |
locative | formulada |
ablative | formuladan |
References
- Mirjejev, V. A., Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary][2], Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN
Finnish
Noun
formula
- (motor racing) a Formula One racing car
Declension
Inflection of formula (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | formula | formulat | ||
genitive | formulan | formuloiden formuloitten | ||
partitive | formulaa | formuloita | ||
illative | formulaan | formuloihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | formula | formulat | ||
accusative | nom. | formula | formulat | |
gen. | formulan | |||
genitive | formulan | formuloiden formuloitten formulainrare | ||
partitive | formulaa | formuloita | ||
inessive | formulassa | formuloissa | ||
elative | formulasta | formuloista | ||
illative | formulaan | formuloihin | ||
adessive | formulalla | formuloilla | ||
ablative | formulalta | formuloilta | ||
allative | formulalle | formuloille | ||
essive | formulana | formuloina | ||
translative | formulaksi | formuloiksi | ||
abessive | formulatta | formuloitta | ||
instructive | — | formuloin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
French
Verb
formula
- third-person singular past historic of formuler
Hungarian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin formula (“a small pattern or mold, form, rule, principle, method, formula”), diminutive of forma (“a form”).[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
formula (plural formulák)
- formula (an established form of words for use in a procedure)
- formula (a plan or method for dealing with a problem or for achieving a result)
- (archaic) spell, charm, incantation (words or a formula supposed to have magical powers)
Declension
Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | formula | formulák |
accusative | formulát | formulákat |
dative | formulának | formuláknak |
instrumental | formulával | formulákkal |
causal-final | formuláért | formulákért |
translative | formulává | formulákká |
terminative | formuláig | formulákig |
essive-formal | formulaként | formulákként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | formulában | formulákban |
superessive | formulán | formulákon |
adessive | formulánál | formuláknál |
illative | formulába | formulákba |
sublative | formulára | formulákra |
allative | formulához | formulákhoz |
elative | formulából | formulákból |
delative | formuláról | formulákról |
ablative | formulától | formuláktól |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
formuláé | formuláké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
formuláéi | formulákéi |
Possessive forms of formula | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | formulám | formuláim |
2nd person sing. | formulád | formuláid |
3rd person sing. | formulája | formulái |
1st person plural | formulánk | formuláink |
2nd person plural | formulátok | formuláitok |
3rd person plural | formulájuk | formuláik |
References
- ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN
Italian
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
formula f (plural formule)
Derived terms
Related terms
Verb
formula
- third-person singular present indicative of formulare
- second-person singular imperative of formulare
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
Diminutive, from fōrma + -ulus.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfoːr.mu.la/, [ˈfoːrmʊɫ̪ä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfor.mu.la/, [ˈfɔrmulä]
Noun
fōrmula f (genitive fōrmulae); first declension
- shape, outline
- (fine) form; beauty
- pattern, mould; paradigm
- form, rule, method, formula
- lawsuit, action
Declension
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | fōrmula | fōrmulae |
Genitive | fōrmulae | fōrmulārum |
Dative | fōrmulae | fōrmulīs |
Accusative | fōrmulam | fōrmulās |
Ablative | fōrmulā | fōrmulīs |
Vocative | fōrmula | fōrmulae |
Descendants
References
- “formula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “formula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- formula in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- “formula”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- formula in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[3], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- “formula”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Portuguese
Verb
formula
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Noun
fȏrmula f (Cyrillic spelling фо̑рмула)
Declension
Declension of formula
Spanish
Verb
formula
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