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Formula   /fˈɔrmjələ/   Listen
Formula

noun
(pl. E. formulas, L. formulae)
1.
A group of symbols that make a mathematical statement.  Synonym: expression.
2.
Directions for making something.  Synonym: recipe.
3.
A conventionalized statement expressing some fundamental principle.
4.
A representation of a substance using symbols for its constituent elements.  Synonym: chemical formula.
5.
Something regarded as a normative example.  Synonyms: convention, normal, pattern, rule.  "Violence is the rule not the exception" , "His formula for impressing visitors"
6.
A liquid food for infants.
7.
(mathematics) a standard procedure for solving a class of mathematical problems.  Synonym: rule.  "He gave us a general formula for attacking polynomials"



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"Formula" Quotes from Famous Books



... duel as coolly as any of his contemporaries. All their interference was heroic interference. All their legislation was heroic legislation. All their remedies were heroic remedies. No doubt they were often narrow and often visionary. No doubt they often looked at a political formula when they should have looked at an elemental fact. No doubt they were pedantic in some of their principles and clumsy in some of their solutions. No doubt, in short, they were all very wrong; and no doubt we are the people, and wisdom shall die with us. But when they saw something ...
— Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens • G. K. Chesterton
... subsequently there had been continued progress towards the assimilation of the English and Boer races in South Africa. This was marred by Afrikaner Bond doctrines and intrigues proceeding from a Hollander coterie, the formula being "Afrika voor de Afrikaners"—the aims including the usurpation of British authority in the Colonies, supremacy of the Boer nation under one great Republican federation, and an affiliated status with Holland which ...
— Origin of the Anglo-Boer War Revealed (2nd ed.) - The Conspiracy of the 19th Century Unmasked • C. H. Thomas
... Allah means mercy, from the Angels intercession and pardon; and from mankind blessing. Concerning the specific effects of blessing the Prophet, see Pilgrimage (ii. 70). The formula is often slurred over when a man is in a hurry to speak: an interrupting friend will say " Bless the Prophet!" and he does so by ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 4 • Richard F. Burton
... Thieves, the mere name of the plant sesame serves as a talisman to open and shut the secret door which leads into the robbers' cavern; and when the avaricious Cassim Baba, absorbed in the contemplation of the bags of gold and bales of rich merchandise, forgets the magic formula, he meets no better fate than the shepherd of the Ilsenstein. In the story of Prince Ahmed, it is an enchanted arrow which guides the young adventurer through the hillside to the grotto of the Peri Banou. ...
— Myths and Myth-Makers - Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology • John Fiske
... remind me of something we want buried and forgotten," interrupted Stetson. "Too much chance for misuse of that formula." ...
— Operation Haystack • Frank Patrick Herbert


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