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Formulation

Formulation \For`mu*la"tion\, n. The act, process, or result of formulating or reducing to a formula.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
formulation

1848, noun of action from formulate (v.).

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formulation

n. 1 The act, process, or result of formulating or reducing to a formula. 2 (context medicine English) A medicinal preparation

WordNet
formulation
  1. n. a substance prepared according to a formula [syn: preparation]

  2. inventing or contriving an idea or explanation and formulating it mentally [syn: conceptualization, conceptualisation]

  3. the style of expressing yourself; "he suggested a better formulation"; "his manner of expression showed how much he cared" [syn: expression]

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Formulation (disambiguation)

Formulation may refer to:

  • Clinical formulation
  • Formulations (general discussion about formulations, its manipulations, principles and computations)
  • Formulation science
  • Pharmaceutical formulation:
    • Galenic formulation
  • Pesticide formulation

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Formulation

Formulation is a term used in various senses in various applications, both the material and the abstract or formal. Its fundamental meaning is the putting together of components in appropriate relationships or structures, according to a formula. It might help to reflect that etymologically Formula is the diminutive of the Latin Forma, meaning shape.

In that sense a formulation is created according to the standard for the product.

Usage examples of "formulation".

InHoratian and Petronian formulations the egocentricity of which both gluttony and bad manners are signs overrides the good will implied by dining and imposes on the proper expectations of guests.

The very formulation of these rules for neutrals shows that the decisive thing is the conflict, the friend-enemy disjunction.

In theory, such a compressed data formulation could be assembled under what scientists call nonrational continuum conditions, either within the event horizon of a singularity, or in the ach-ronic conditions preceding the big bang.

I had succeeded in developing a testosterone formulation I judged would be effective on humans, and I had converted the liquid into pills not much larger than a 325 mg aspirin.

The more subtle Rabelaisian formulation sees self-indulgence as a paradoxical image of the search for truth.

It might he testosterone formulation be possible to structure transdermal delivery.

Iran does not always take its international obligations seriously--it is a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and the Chemical Weapons Convention and is taking an active role in the formulation of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention, yet it continues to have active programs in all of these areas.

Matter of fact, our chemists are making a change or two in formulation so manufacturing will be more efficient.

As we discussed in Chapter 12, the dualities underlying the unity of the five string theories show us that physical processes that occur in any one string formulation can be reinterpreted in the dual language of any of the others.

He located the formulations for Morton and translated them into a program of analysis, humming an irregular tune which never went quite right as he worked.

Surely somebody less contemptuous should have won, a true believer who slavishly worked out the odds of various numerical formulations in order to maximise winning potential, someone who paid visits to the ticket dispenser with the regularity of a devout churchgoer?

Or, might it be that through historical accident physicists have constructed an extremely awkward formulation of quantum mechanics that, although quantitatively successful, obfuscates the true nature of reality?

Most policy formulation seemed to take place in pubs. At least one of his colleagues from those days ended in prison.

He was a brooder with a monumental formulation, his own vision of a balanced population.

From a worn leather snap-purse in his vest pocket he pinched out a much-folded parchment, of a kind familiar: under the usual certificatory formulations, Harold Bray's signature and a penned subscription: "Founder helps those who help themselves.