formation
nomcourant dans les dialogues
- Royaume-Uni//fɔːˈmeɪʃ(ə)n//
- Canada//fɔɹˈmeɪʃ(ə)n//
- Australie//foːˈmæɪʃ(ə)n//
The act of assembling a group or structure.
nom
- 1
The act of assembling a group or structure.
Some cloud formation was confirmed and rainfall was observed over some islands.
- 2
Something possessing structure or form.
- 3
The process during which something comes into being and gains its characteristics.
- 4
A grouping of military units or smaller formations under a command, such as a brigade, division, wing, etc.
- 5
A layer of rock of common origin.
Over a broad region, the color of a formation may change.
- 6
An arrangement of moving troops, ships, or aircraft, such as a wedge, line abreast, or echelon. Often "in formation".
- 7
An arrangement of players designed to facilitate certain plays.
N'Golo Kanté embodies both sides of this, a player whose early scratchiness was soothed with glorious results in the new 3-4-3 formation, allowed simply to be his best, most wonderfully mobile, diligent, destructive self.
- 8
The process of influencing or guiding a person to a deeper understanding of a particular vocation.
- 9
A structure made of two categories, two functors from the first to the second category, and a transformation from one of the functors to the other.
Étymologie
From Middle English formacioun, formation, borrowed from Old French formacion, from Latin fōrmātiō, from fōrmō (“form”, verb); see form as verb. Morphologically form + -ation.
Formes
- pluriel
- formations
formation · The act of assembling a group or structure.
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