Meaning

3 senses
  1. A subunit of a formation; a subsidiary formation.

    moving five subformations into place before the attack

  2. A formation (of rock) within a larger formation.

  3. A formation that is a subset of a larger formation.

Origin

From sub- + formation.

From sub- + formation.

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Forms

plural: subformations
Singularsubformation
Pluralsubformations

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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