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 (plural formulae or formulas or formulæ)

1. (mathematics) Any mathematical rule expressed symbolically.

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

2. (chemistry) 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.

   • 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.

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. A formal statement of doctrine, as in religion.
6. (countable, uncountable) Drink given to babies to substitute for mother's milk.
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.

• (in mathematics): mathematical formula
• (in chemistry): chemical formula

• (logic): sentence

• formula architecture
• formulate
• formulation
• Formula One
• formula racing
• multiformula

• form
• formulaic
• formulism

• formula in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• formula in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

• Formula in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

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

formula

1. (motor racing) a Formula One racing car

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

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)

Borrowed from Latin formula.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔrmula/

formula f (plural formule)

1. (mathematics, chemistry) formula

• formulare
• Formula Uno

• forma

formula

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

• fulmaro

Diminutive, from fōrma +‎ -ulus.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfoːr.mu.la/, [ˈfoːr.mʊ.ɫa]

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.

• 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, 1883–1887)
• formula in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• formula in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) 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

formula

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

Borrowed from Latin formula.

fȏrmula f (Cyrillic spelling фо̑рмула)

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

formula

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of formular.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of formular.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of formular.