formula
Meanings
noun
- Any mathematical rule expressed symbolically.
- A symbolic expression of the structure of a compound.
- A plan or method for dealing with a problem or for achieving a result.
- A formulation; a prescription; a mixture or solution made in a prescribed manner; the identity and quantities of ingredients of such a mixture.
- A fixed phrase or set of words intended to be interpreted non-literally, typically used attitudinally or as part of convention; a formulation.
- A formal statement of doctrine.
- Ellipsis of infant formula, drink given to babies to substitute for mother's milk.
- 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.
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Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin fōrmula (“a small pattern or mold, form, rule, principle, method, formula”), diminutive of forma (“a form”). See form.
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