formula

Borrowed from Latin formula (“a small pattern or mold, form, rule, principle, method, formula”), diminutive of forma (“a form”); see form.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfɔː.mjʊ.lə/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfɔɹ.mjə.lə/

formula (countable and uncountable, plural formulae or formulas or formulæ)

1. (mathematics) Any mathematical rule expressed symbolically.

   Synonym: mathematical formula

   ${\displaystyle x={\frac {-b\pm {\sqrt {b^{2}-4ac}}}{2a}}}$ is a formula for finding the roots of the quadratic equation ax² + bx + c = 0.

   Hyponyms: Brahmagupta's formula, Bretschneider's formula, Cauchy's integral formula, Cayley's formula, De Moivre's formula, Euler's formula, Faulhaber's formula, Heron's formula, haversine formula, Jacobi's formula, Legendre's formula, Stirling's formula, Vieta's formulas, Viète's formula

2. (chemistry) A symbolic expression of the structure of a compound.

   Synonym: chemical formula

   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.

   • 2017 March 14, Stuart James, “Leicester stun Sevilla to reach last eight after Kasper Schmeichel save”, in the Guardian‎:

     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.

   • 2019 October, Ian Walmsley, “Cleaning up”, in Modern Railways, page 42:

     Delays, large and small, have a huge variety of causes, so there is no magic formula for preventing them.

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.

5. (especially religion) A formal statement of doctrine.
   • 2004, Thomas Fisch, editor, Primary Readings on the Eucharist, Liturgical Press, →ISBN, footnote, page 34:

     The extract from the Missal of Constance, which was printed before the editio princeps […] does not contain the formulae for Advent, Sundays after Epiphany, Lent and the Sundays after Easter and Pentecost; […]

6. (countable, uncountable) Ellipsis of infant formula; drink given to babies to substitute for mother's milk.
   • 2018, Kristin Lawless, Formerly known as food, →ISBN:

     Many women advocate for formula, insisting that women who advocate breast-feeding have become self-righteous “lactavists,” as one writer puts it.

7. (logic) 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.

   Hyponym: sentence

• Irish: foirmle
• Scottish Gaelic: foirmle

• “formula”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “formula”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• Formula in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [furˈmu.lə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [foɾˈmu.la]

formula

1. inflection of formular:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Borrowed from Latin formula (“small form”), from forma (“form”).

formula

1. formula

• Mirjejev, V. A., Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎, Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN

From English formula.

• IPA^(key): /ˈformulɑ/, [ˈfo̞rmulɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ormulɑ
• Syllabification^(key): for‧mu‧la

formula

1. (motor racing) a Formula One racing car

• “formula”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

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formula

1. third-person singular past historic of formuler

Borrowed from Latin formula (“a small pattern or mold, form, rule, principle, method, formula”), diminutive of forma (“a form”).[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈformulɒ]
• Hyphenation: for‧mu‧la
• Rhymes: -lɒ

formula (plural formulák)

1. formula (an established form of words for use in a procedure)
2. formula (a plan or method for dealing with a problem or for achieving a result)
3. (archaic) spell, charm, incantation (words or a formula supposed to have magical powers)

Learned borrowing from Latin fōrmula.

• IPA^(key): [fɔrˈmula]
• Hyphenation: for‧mu‧la

formula (first-person possessive formulaku, second-person possessive formulamu, third-person possessive formulanya)

1. formula

   Synonym: rumus

• “formula” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔr.mu.la/, /ˈfor.mu.la/[1]
• Rhymes: -ɔrmula, -ormula
• Hyphenation: fòr‧mu‧la, fór‧mu‧la

Borrowed from Latin formula.

formula f (plural formule)

1. (mathematics, chemistry) formula

• formulare
• Formula Uno

• forma

formula

1. inflection of formulare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• fulmaro

From fōrma +‎ -ula.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfoːr.mu.la/, [ˈfoːrmʊɫ̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfor.mu.la/, [ˈfɔrmulä]

fōrmula f (genitive fōrmulae); first declension

1. shape, outline
2. (fine) form; beauty
3. pattern, mould; paradigm
4. form, rule, method, formula
5. lawsuit, action

First-declension noun.

• “formula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “formula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• formula in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “formula”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• formula in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• “formula”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

From Latin fōrmula.

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formula f (plural formulas)

1. (mathematics) formula (any mathematical rule expressed symbolically)
2. (chemistry) formula (a symbolic expression of the structure of a compound)
3. form (a blank document or template to be filled in by the user)

formula

1. inflection of formular:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Borrowed from French formuler.

• IPA^(key): [for.muˈla]

a formula (third-person singular present formulează, past participle formulat) 1st conj.

1. to formulate

• IPA^(key): [forˈmu.la]

formula f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of formulă

Borrowed from Latin formula.

fȏrmula f (Cyrillic spelling фо̑рмула)

1. (mathematics, chemistry, logic) formula
2. rule

• IPA^(key): [ˈfɔrmula]

formula f (declension pattern of žena)

1. formula

• “formula”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

formula

1. inflection of formular:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative