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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
formula
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
baby/formula milk (=milk in powder form for babies)
▪ Many babies are fed formula milk.
mathematical equation/calculation/formula etc
secret ingredient/recipe/formula
▪ The cookies are made to a secret recipe.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
basic
▪ A traditional basic formula is scripture, tradition, reason.
▪ Essentially, Goldsmith had invented the basic formula for Three's Company.
▪ A reworking of the basic formula allows a price to be calculated for a desired return.
general
▪ These are usually cyclic molecules, containing carbon-carbon bonds and oxygen atoms of general formula.
▪ Strangely enough, there is a general formula that does produce results.
▪ In particular, the alphabetical general formula index appears to have been assembled in a semi-random manner.
▪ For those not afraid of Pythagoras, I 113 could write down a more general formula.
magic
▪ Peter's magic formula AT least some one on Merseyside is doing everything right.
▪ There is no magic formula for instant success.
▪ There is no magic formula that will transform sorrow into happiness, intolerance into compassion or war into peace.
▪ There is no short cut, no magic formula.
▪ You don't say the magic formula until later.
▪ So, what was the magic formula that attracted at least three times that number?
▪ However, what we are dealing with here is a magic formula of a type which has characterised legislation from Brussels before.
▪ But outsiders, they think we have a magic formula.
mathematical
▪ As with index-linked rents, any mathematical formula should be carefully checked by calculator or computer.
▪ Luther met Predestination as revealed truth: Calvin treated it as a mathematical formula and deduced the results.
▪ But political arrangements can not correspond to some tidy mathematical formula.
▪ Rabin's method uses a stream of randomly generated characters that can be decoded with a mathematical formula.
▪ These assumptions and the mathematical formula used to calculate the volume have been described and validated by Everson and colleagues.
▪ Census takers then turn the difference into a mathematical formula and apply it to the city as a whole.
▪ We feed the figures into a mathematical formula and the formula then takes over and does the processing for us.
new
▪ I could also assess whether this new formula or exercise was really working for them.
▪ Local politicians do not believe that any new talks formula could be adopted before late summer or the autumn.
▪ The newly designed packaging is complimented by the introduction of a unique new bio-nourishing formula with panthenol.
▪ There is surely a new formula here for those who wish to break out of the global environmental nosedive.
▪ It urges a new formula and more competition.
▪ After a decline in interest in the mid-1970s the series was suspended in 1975 while a new formula was developed.
old
▪ The old formula distinguishing the motive to instruct or to amuse is of no service.
right
▪ Perhaps John Major, already well into the habit of stealing Labour's clothes, will come up with the right formula.
secret
▪ There was no secret formula, no magic plan, however.
▪ Perhaps that writing has something to do with his secret formula.
simple
▪ But the simple formula is enough to show what the variables are.
▪ There is no one simple formula as to how each parent should give affection.
▪ But such a simple formula really will not do.
▪ This simple formula has benefited from some much improved recording techniques.
▪ Time and again this simple formula proves to be a constructive starting point for detailed discussion.
▪ Substitute numbers in a simple formula expressed in words One of the examples trialled proved to be easy.
▪ Initially, the quota system was based on a simple two-element formula.
▪ Clearly there is no simple formula for resolving the problems of educational accountability.
standard
▪ Consequently the standard formula for the objective row in Phase I applies.
▪ Specific lysis was calculated by the standard formula and values in the absence of peptide subtracted to yield the values shown.
▪ Made to a standard formula by many different companies.
▪ The environmental health officer, for his or her part, will almost always rate the noise according to a standard formula.
▪ First, those firms with in-house architects, which insist on a standard formula without consideration of local conditions.
successful
▪ Having found a successful formula, he kept to it.
▪ In recent years the successful formula has remained largely unchanged.
▪ Until a successful formula can be devised, local initiatives for youth are likely to continue with as much publicity as possible.
▪ Why tamper with a successful formula?
▪ Spurs have to decide whether to recall Stewart to their attack or stick to a successful formula.
winning
▪ It was wrong to change a winning formula during the most important rugby game ever played.
▪ Youngsters from special schools in Tewkesbury are finding out what's behind his winning formula.
■ NOUN
compromise
▪ The convention ignored Morris and accepted the compromise formula.
infant
▪ The infant formula brouhaha created a monster which may yet check and balance the dread corporation: the multinational pressure group.
rawp
▪ The lack of a gold standard for health service need was a reason for using standardised mortality ratio in the RAWP formula.
▪ Perhaps self-reports of sickness should be substituted for death rates in the RAWP formula.
▪ However, many of the severest critics of the RAWP formula seem to have adopted fallacious lines of argument.
▪ First, the authority was losing revenue resources to the outer London districts under the RAWP formula.
■ VERB
agree
▪ However, the proposal was never enacted because the administration and congressional Republicans could not agree on a balanced-budget formula.
▪ But the proposals died when Congress failed to agree on a formula to rescue the trust fund.
allow
▪ A reworking of the basic formula allows a price to be calculated for a desired return.
apply
▪ Kennan applied the same formula in a more general way to the Soviet satellites.
calculate
▪ Specific lysis was calculated by the standard formula and values in the absence of peptide subtracted to yield the values shown.
▪ Nephrogenous cAMP was calculated with the formula of Broadus.
▪ Admittedly the computer did use them to calculate the appropriate genetic formula for every point on the picture.
▪ The relative molecular mass of NaCl determined from the elevation of boiling point is thus approximately half that calculated from its formula.
▪ He devised a formula whereby the amount an employer can save, for every employee recruited, each year can be calculated.
change
▪ It was wrong to change a winning formula during the most important rugby game ever played.
▪ But these are minor misdemeanours when compared to something major like changing a winning formula.
devise
▪ He devised a formula whereby the amount an employer can save, for every employee recruited, each year can be calculated.
find
▪ I think we've found a formula that we can be successful with in growing the business.
▪ When he failed, Bottger persuaded the king that he could find the formula for making porcelain -- and he did.
▪ Having found a successful formula, he kept to it.
▪ He had found a formula for social success, which gave him a sense of personal security.
▪ The more able spotted a number pattern and found the formula that fitted exactly with the science.
▪ She finds the formula that will release her from her math nightmare.
▪ This was the situation as the Commonwealth leaders sought to find a formula.
▪ A third requirement was to find some formula, such as 242, to bring peace to the Middle East.
follow
▪ Additions to the range followed rapidly, all of which follow the same formula of transverse engine layout and front wheel drive.
▪ The F-Plan is the first slimming diet which enables you to follow this formula.
repeat
▪ We have tried to avoid repeating the formula of the ubiquitous open-air sculpture exhibition.
use
▪ Phillipon refused to say whether the framework assigns nominal dollar amounts for each individual or uses a funding formula.
▪ They use an intricate formula to extrapolate how many are snakes inhabiting an area.
▪ Every other machine in Harley's range uses its trusted formula of a 45 V-twin in a steel backbone frame.
▪ Company officials use a formula to set the stock price and control stock sales to employees.
▪ He uses a formula which has been tried and tested on several occasions in the past.
▪ The solution in many cases is to use a different formula.
▪ Bjornsson decided not to use a formula derived from multiple regression analysis.
▪ To use the formula, it is necessary to know the value of angle 0.
win
▪ But we eventually worked out a winning formula.
▪ But these are minor misdemeanours when compared to something major like changing a winning formula.
work
▪ But we eventually worked out a winning formula.
▪ But Cavalli did not work to a formula.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Coca-Cola's patented formula
▪ Juanita's plan is based on the proven formula of investing money to make money.
▪ Tobin's speech was full of the usual formulas and clichés.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ It was a formula for catastrophe.
▪ It was first investigated in the late nineteenth century, and by 1932 its formula had been deduced.
▪ The 3, 6, 9, formula makes enough for two 7-inch tins.
▪ The old formula distinguishing the motive to instruct or to amuse is of no service.
▪ The second factor accounting for the regional and central city-suburban shifts was the character of the entitlement formula.
▪ The unions' move leaves unchanged the central issues of basic pay and a pay formula.
▪ This formula takes into account the majority of solutes present in normal serum.
▪ This tabloid formula has hooked 70 percent of the Czech audience.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Formula

Formula \For"mu*la\, n.; pl. E. Formulas, L. Formul[ae].

  1. A prescribed or set form; an established rule; a fixed or conventional method in which anything is to be done, arranged, or said.

  2. (Eccl.) A written confession of faith; a formal statement of foctrines.

  3. (Math.) A rule or principle expressed in algebraic language; as, the binominal formula.

  4. (Med.) A prescription or recipe for the preparation of a medicinal compound.

  5. (Chem.) A symbolic expression (by means of letters, figures, etc.) of the constituents or constitution of a compound.

    Note: Chemical formul[ae] consist of the abbreviations of the names of the elements, with a small figure at the lower right hand, to denote the number of atoms of each element contained.

    Empirical formula (Chem.), an expression which gives the simple proportion of the constituents; as, the empirical formula of acetic acid is C2H4O2.

    Graphic formula, Rational formula (Chem.), an expression of the constitution, and in a limited sense of the structure, of a compound, by the grouping of its atoms or radicals; as, a rational formula of acetic acid is CH3.(C:O).OH; -- called also structural formula, constitutional formula, etc. See also the formula of Benzene nucleus, under Benzene.

    Molecular formula (Chem.), a formula indicating the supposed molecular constitution of a compound.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
formula

1630s, "words used in a ceremony or ritual" (earlier as a Latin word in English), from Latin formula "form, draft, contract, regulation;" in law, "a rule, method;" literally "small form," diminutive of forma "form" (see form (n.)). Modern sense is colored by Carlyle's use (1837) of the word in a sense of "rule slavishly followed without understanding" [OED]. From 1706 as "a prescription, a recipe;" mathematical use is from 1796; chemistry sense is from 1842. In motor racing, "class or specification of a car" (usually by engine size), 1927.

Wiktionary
formula

n. 1 (context mathematics English) Any mathematical rule expressed symbolically. 2 (context chemistry English) A symbolic expression of the structure of a compound. 3 A plan or method for dealing with a problem or for achieving a result. 4 A formulation; a prescription; a mixture or solution made in a prescribed manner; the identity and quantities of ingredients of such a mixture. 5 Drink given to babies to substitute for mother's milk. 6 (context logic English) 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.

WordNet
formula
  1. n. a group of symbols that make a mathematical statement [syn: expression]

  2. directions for making something [syn: recipe]

  3. a conventionalized statement expressing some fundamental principle

  4. a representation of a substance using symbols for its constituent elements [syn: chemical formula]

  5. something regarded as a normative example; "the convention of not naming the main character"; "violence is the rule not the exception"; "his formula for impressing visitors" [syn: convention, normal, pattern, rule]

  6. a liquid food for infants

  7. (mathematics) a standard procedure for solving a class of mathematical problems; "he determined the upper bound with Descartes' rule of signs"; "he gave us a general formula for attacking polynomials" [syn: rule]

  8. [also: formulae (pl)]

Wikipedia
Formula

In science, a formula is a concise way of expressing information symbolically as in a mathematical or chemical formula. The informal use of the term formula in science refers to the general construct of a relationship between given quantities. The plural of formula can be spelled either as formulas or formulae (from the original Latin).

In mathematics, a formula is an entity constructed using the symbols and formation rules of a given logical language. For example, determining the volume of a sphere requires a significant amount of integral calculus or its geometrical analogue, the method of exhaustion; but, having done this once in terms of some parameter (the radius for example), mathematicians have produced a formula to describe the volume: This particular formula is:

Having obtained this result, and knowing the radius of any sphere in question, we can quickly and easily determine its volume. Note that the volume V and the radius r are expressed as single letters instead of words or phrases. This convention, while less important in a relatively simple formula, means that mathematicians can more quickly manipulate larger and more complex formulas. Mathematical formulas are often algebraic, closed form, and/or analytical.

In modern chemistry, a chemical formula is a way of expressing information about the proportions of atoms that constitute a particular chemical compound, using a single line of chemical element symbols, numbers, and sometimes other symbols, such as parentheses, brackets, and plus (+) and minus (−) signs. For example, HO is the chemical formula for water, specifying that each molecule consists of two hydrogen (H) atoms and one oxygen (O) atom. Similarly, O denotes an ozone molecule consisting of three oxygen atoms and having a net negative charge.

In a general context, formulas are applied to provide a mathematical solution for real world problems. Some may be general: , which is one expression of Newton's second law, is applicable to a wide range of physical situations. Other formulas may be specially created to solve a particular problem; for example, using the equation of a sine curve to model the movement of the tides in a bay. In all cases, however, formulas form the basis for calculations.

Expressions are distinct from formulas in that they cannot contain an equals sign (=). Whereas formulas are comparable to sentences, expressions are more like phrases.

Formula (disambiguation)

A formula, in mathematics, is an entity constructed using the symbols and formation rules of a given logical language.

Formula may also refer to:

  • Formula, album by OLD
  • Formulæ, album by Master's Hammer
  • Chemical formula, an expression of the contents of a chemical compound
  • Infant formula, a food for infants
  • Trinitarian formula, a Biblical phrase
  • Well-formed formula, a word that is part of a formal language, in mathematical logic
  • Formula (boats)
  • Formula fiction, literature following a predictable form
  • Formula language, a Lotus Notes programming language
  • Formula racing, a type of motorsport
  • Bill of materials
  • A concept in the theory of oral-formulaic composition, related to oral poetry
  • A type of ritual in Roman law
  • A defunct video game label of Lost Boys Games, a defunct Dutch game developer
Formula (album)

Formula (released 1995) is an album by industrial/metal band OLD (Old Lady Drivers). It is their last full-length to date, and the group was condensed to a duo, with James Plotkin handling all instruments and Alan Dubin handling all vocals.

The album is a rather drastic departure from OLD's earlier works, abandoning much of their extreme metal roots to instead explore techno, IDM and electro, with Dubin's vocals processed through a Vocoder.

According to Terrorizer Magazine (article named "Lost Classics & Follies"), it is allegedly the lowest-selling album in the history of Earache Records. Though not well received at the time of its release, Allmusic reports that Formula can be viewed as a precursor of industrial techno

Formula (boats)

Formula is a brand of pleasure boats produced in the United States and sold around the world. Formula is owned and operated by Thunderbird Products.

Usage examples of "formula".

Such was the form of the earth according to the authors of the Accadian magical formulae and the Chaldean astrologers of after years.

He recited mathematical formulae to it, he told it an Aesop fable, he gave it portions of the federal mining laws.

How about a tax to support antipollution research financed by an addition to the income tax rates based on a simple formula such as 5, corresponding to the year in the five-year tax plan?

Chemists, work round the clock on variation and synthesis of the apomorphine formulae.

D, it is in your interest to facilitate our work with the apomorphine formulae?

Half the fifty or so pages were filled with notes, neatly hand-written, interspersed with figures, formulae and sketches, some of which were of plants, others plans of plantations as far as I could judge.

System Monetary Units for the Secret, Infallible, Autosuggestive Formula.

The formula relating the total radiant energy emitted by a blackbody to its temperature was found experimentally by Joseph Stefan in 1879 and derived theoretically by Ludwig Boltzmann in 1889.

Since the six-syllable formula is the special mantra of Avalokitesvara, low relief carving of that Bodhisattva might be found with it.

Paul Crouch had something to do with tobacco promoting Formula One cars and Ronny Raul was a food scientist at US Abstract Foods Corporation on the Banbury ring road, whose factory would fill the air for miles around with the smell of whatever they were concocting that day, nutmeg and cinnamon, coffee and cardamon, saffron and chocolate, the smells of the Damascus souk amongst the tilting roadsigns and squashed-flat rabbit corpses of the A316.

Trinitarian and Christological Formula, which, however, he retracted at a later period is well known.

We based our criteria for excellence on the ability at the Latin Theme, we abandoned all that with horror as outdated elitism, and we now do exactly the same thing, with algebraic formulae substituting for Ciceronian pedantries.

The essence, in short, of the Coleridgian ontology consists in the alteration of a single though a very important word in the well-known Cartesian formula.

Great artists who have taken liberties with traditions and precedents have done much to prevent the critics from falling into a state of self-complacency over their scientific methods and formulas.

Doctor Daska, had been achieving some interesting variations in the Hofmann formulae, creating more directive compounds in the psilocybin and D-lysergic acid diethylamide areas.