formulation

Noun

Meaning

The act, process, or result of formulating or reducing to a formula.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

expression preparation assembly development form design construction creation composition arrangement draft drafting elaboration conceptualization conceptualisation
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Antonyms

end fact beginning basis damage decline
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Hypernyms

style compound chemical compound expressive style creating by mental acts

Hyponyms

nebula polish americanism attack approach starch

Related terms

formula formulate

Phrases with the word

formulation buffer decision formulation choice formulation chemical formulation formulation of national policies

Examples

I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an answer for myself, for the theater, or the play-but rather the most accurate possible statement of the problem. Arthur Miller

These inventors were elevating the formulation of entrepreneurial ideas to the status of a visionary activity. Though forced to justify their efforts in the pragmatic language of venture capital, they were at heart utopian thinkers intent on transforming the world. Alain de Botton

Tektology was the first attempt in the history of science to arrive at a systematic formulation of the principles of organization operating in living and nonliving systems. Fritjof Capra

My interest in economics has always been in the whole corpus of economic theory, the interrelationships between the various fields of theory and their relevance for the formulation of economic policy. James Meade

The mere formulation of a problem is far more often essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and makres real advances in science. Albert Einstein

The miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift which we neither understand nor deserve. E. P. Wigner

Close letter words and terms

formulated on formulated without formulating national policies formulation buffer formulation of national policies formulational