Crossword clues for formula
formula
- Fixed method
- H2O, e.g.
- Directions for making something
- (mathematics) a standard procedure for solving a class of mathematical problems
- A liquid food for infants
- Something regarded as a normative example
- A conventionalized statement expressing some fundamental principle
- A group of symbols that make a mathematical statement
- A representation of a substance using symbols for its constituent elements
- Recipe
- Mathematical rule
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Formula \For"mu*la\, n.; pl. E. Formulas, L. Formul[ae].
A prescribed or set form; an established rule; a fixed or conventional method in which anything is to be done, arranged, or said.
(Eccl.) A written confession of faith; a formal statement of foctrines.
(Math.) A rule or principle expressed in algebraic language; as, the binominal formula.
(Med.) A prescription or recipe for the preparation of a medicinal compound.
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(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
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
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
n. a group of symbols that make a mathematical statement [syn: expression]
directions for making something [syn: recipe]
a conventionalized statement expressing some fundamental principle
a representation of a substance using symbols for its constituent elements [syn: chemical formula]
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]
a liquid food for infants
(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]
[also: formulae (pl)]
Wikipedia
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.
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 (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 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.