formula
//ˈfɔː.mjʊ.lə//
formalForms
- Plural
- formulas
Definitions
1.Any mathematical rule expressed symbolically.
- The chemical formula for water is H₂O.
2.A symbolic expression of the structure of a compound.
- H₂O is the formula for water.
3.A plan or method for dealing with a problem or for achieving a result.
- The company's winning formula includes excellent service and quality products.
- Delays, large and small, have a huge variety of causes, so there is no magic formula for preventing them.
- Shakespeare has gone back to the formula of last season, by encouraging his players to press high up the pitch and restoring Shinji Okazaki to the starting XI to scurry around between midfield and attack.
4.A formulation; a prescription; a mixture or solution made in a prescribed manner; the identity and quantities of ingredients of such a mixture.
- The formula of the rocket fuel has not been revealed.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #2687
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Uncommon
- Literature
- Rare
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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.