formation
English
/fɔɹ.ˈmeɪ.ʃən/, /fə(ɹ).ˈmeɪ.ʃən/
noun
Definitions
- Something possessing structure or form.
- The act of assembling a group or structure.
- The process during which something comes into being and gains its characteristics.
- (geology) A rock or face of a mountain.
- (military) A grouping of military units or smaller formations under a command, such as a brigade, division, wing, etc.
- (military) An arrangement of moving troops, ships, or aircraft, such as a wedge, line abreast, or echelon. Often "in formation".
- (sports) An arrangement of players designed to facilitate certain plays.
- The process of influencing or guiding a person to a deeper understanding of a particular vocation.
- (category theory) A structure made of two categories, two functors from the first to the second category, and a transformation from one of the functors to the other.
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French formacion derived from Latin fōrmātiō.
Origin
Latin
fōrmātiō
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Maastricht English
- Maastricht Formation English
- back English
- back-formation English
- backformation English
- electroformation English
- extraformational English
- formational English
- geoformation English
- interformational English
- intraformational English
- malformation English
- misformation English
- neoformation English
- osteoformation English
- postformation English
- postformational English
- preformation English
- preformationary English
- preformationism English
- preformationist English
- re-formation English
- subformation English
- unformation English
- formatio Latin
- fōrmātiō Latin
- fōrmātiōnem, fōrmātiō Latin
- transformatio Latin
- Formation German
- Maastricht Dutch, Flemish
- autoformation French
- formation French
- ostéoformation French
- reformation French
- réformation French
- téléformation French
- formacion Old French
- formație Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- formacar Ido
- back
- Maastricht
- formational
- unformation
- malformation
- preformation
- neoformation
- subformation
- re-formation
- misformation
- geoformation
- postformation
- backformation
- osteoformation
- back-formation
- postformational
- preformationary
- preformationist
- preformationism
- intraformational
- electroformation
- interformational
- extraformational
- Maastricht Formation