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单词 formation
释义

formation

/fɔːˈmeɪʃ(ə)n /
noun
1 [mass noun] The action of forming or process of being formed: the formation of the Great Rift Valley...
  • The creative process of formation was more important than the production of pictures.
  • Firstly, the process of government formation is going to be dominated by three factors.
  • During this time the molecular processes of memory formation which underlie addiction are accelerated.

Synonyms

emergence, coming into being, genesis, development, evolution, origination, shaping, generation
establishment, setting up, start, getting going, initiation, institution, founding, foundation, inception, creation, inauguration, organization, building, construction, installation, planting
2A thing that has been formed: strange black rock formations
2.1A group of people or things in a particular arrangement or pattern: they sat in orderly ranks in a circular formation [mass noun]: the jets took off in formation...
  • Building on the tactics of skirmishers, open-order tactics possessed only loose tactical formations.
  • They were arrayed in a circular formation, guarding something within.
  • These are crystal formations with structured spaces or pores in them.

Synonyms

configuration, arrangement, pattern, array, alignment, positioning, disposition, order, ordering, organization, design, marshalling, grouping, layout, format

Derivatives

formational

adjective ...
  • ‘To provide for the common defense’ is one of the formational principles of America.
  • The social formational power, over 75 years, of the song-dedication formula, in compensating what Thompson described as the ‘non-reciprocal intimacy’ of electronic media, is incalculable.
  • A resulting unexpected problem was that because the early practice of abilities was formational, students did not have as clear of a picture of where they stood with grades as they would have liked.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin formatio(n-), from formare 'to form' (see form).

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