Meaning

3 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The act, process, or result of formulating or reducing to a formula.

    Formulierung, Aufgabenstellung, (pharma) Mischung

    формули́рованиеformulírovanije

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

    (countable, uncountable)A particular linguistic construction; a turn of phrase.

    The formulation with the bare infinitive was somewhat less common.

  3. (countable, uncountable)A medicinal preparation.

    If you liked our old shampoo, you'll love the new kinder, gentler formulation.

More definitions
  • the style of expressing yourself
  • a substance prepared according to a formula
  • inventing or contriving an idea or explanation and formulating it mentally

Examples

4 sentences
  1. I'm afraid this is an incorrect formulation of the question.

    ruБоюсь, что это некорректная постановка вопроса.

    deIch fürchte, die Frage ist falsch formuliert.

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  2. Oleg disagreed with that formulation.

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  3. The natural world is always much more complex than formulations in the lab or blueprints in the design office.

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  4. Many of the text formulations arouse suspicion that the author failed to mention a reliance on some English source.

    deViele Formulierungen des Textes nähren den Verdacht, dass sich der Autor irgendeiner nicht erwähnten englischen Quelle bediente.

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Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
act, process, or result of formulating or reducing to a formula:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
act, process, or result of formulating or reducing to a formula:

Forms

plural: formulations
Singularformulation
Pluralformulations

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

10 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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