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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



... fermentation. Many Opponents are in prison, many have retired from their dioceses, while the rest are brought to Paris and cunningly worked upon, each member in turn, apart and confined, tete-a-tete with the Minister of Worship, until all, one by one, are brought to sign the formula of adhesion. On the strength of this, the council, purged and prepared, is summoned afresh to give its vote sitting or standing, in one unique session; through a remnant of virtue it inserts a suspensive clause ...
— The Origins of Contemporary France, Volume 6 (of 6) - The Modern Regime, Volume 2 (of 2) • Hippolyte A. Taine
... deals much too largely in epithets—a habit exceedingly dangerous to historical truth. He habitually constructs a piece of what should be calm, dispassionate narrative, upon the model of the most passionate peroration—adhering in numberless instances to precisely the same specific formula of artifice. His diction is often inflated into fustian, and he indulges in exaggeration till it sometimes, unconsciously no doubt, amounts to falsehood. It is a common fault of those who strive at producing oratorical effects, to oscillate ...
— Famous Reviews • Editor: R. Brimley Johnson
... See the closing paragraph of the first of the three lengthy exhortations to Holy Communion, printed immediately after the "Prayer for the Church Militant" in the Prayer- book.]The words of S. John xx. 23 are quoted in the Anglican formula of ordination to the priesthood; and a form of words to be used by the priest in the private absolution of penitents is prescribed in the Office for the ...
— Religious Reality • A.E.J. Rawlinson
... his friends (how numerous they are nobody knows) are the loudest spokesmen for such a peace as can be made. But it is talked much of in Asquith circles that the time may come when this policy will be led by Mr. Asquith, in a form somewhat modified from the Lansdowne formula. Mr. Asquith has up to this time patriotically supported the government and he himself has said nothing in public which could warrant linking his name with an early peace-seeking policy. But his friends openly and incessantly predict that he ...
— The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II • Burton J. Hendrick
... those who attended her to the door, and got her candle for her, that indispensable but unnecessary formula. ...
— Sir Tom • Mrs. Oliphant


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