From en.wiktionary.org:
[Formation]
** English
*** Etymology
From [en], [enm], borrowed from [en], from [en], from [la]; see form as verb.
Morphologically [en].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Noun
[~]
1. The act of assembling a group or structure. [14]
2. * 2019 , VOA Learning English (see https://web.archive.org/web/20190311070055/https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/south-korea-proposes-rain-project-with-china-to-cut-pollution/4819207.html) (public domain)
3. *: Some cloud FORMATION was confirmed and rainfall was observed over some islands.
4. Something possessing structure or form . [17]
5. The process during which something comes into being and gains its characteristics. [18]
6. [en] A grouping of military unit s or smaller formations under a command , such as a brigade , division , wing , etc. [18]
7. [en] A layer of rock of common origin. [19]
8. * [1=en]
9. [en] An arrangement of moving troop s, ships, or aircraft, such as a wedge , line abreast , or echelon . Often "in formation".
10. [en] An arrangement of player s designed to facilitate certain play s.
11. * {{ quote-journal
|en |date=May 13, 2017 |author=Barney Ronay |title=Antonio Conte’s brilliance
has turned Chelsea’s pop-up team into champions |work=the Guardian
|url=https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2017/may/13/antonio-conte-chelsea-champions-manager
|page= |passage=[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.}}
1. The process of influencing or guiding a person to a deeper understanding of a particular vocation.
2. [en] A structure made of two categories , two functor s from the first to the second category, and a transformation from one of the functors to the other.
**** Hyponyms
- [en] , [en]
**** Derived terms
{{col|en|A formation|back-formation |back formation |Christmas tree formation|
trips formation |electroformation |formational |formation exposure time
|formation lap |formation rule |formation water |free cell formation
|geoformation |gust formation time |I formation |loan formation |malformation
|microformation |misformation |missing man formation |neoformation
|nonformation |osteoformation |pattern formation |postformation |preformation
|progressive longways formation |re-formation |reticular formation |rock
formation |subformation |T formation |unformation |word formation }}
**** Related terms
- [en]
**** Translations
[something possessing structure or form]
- Armenian: [hy] , [hy]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Korean: [ko]
- Maltese: [mt]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Polish: [pl]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Telugu: [te]
[trans-bottom]
[act of assembling a group or structure]
- Armenian: [hy] , [hy]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- German: [de]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Indonesian: [id] , [id]
- Korean: [ko]
- Kurdish:
- Latvian: [lv]
- Malay: [ms]
- Maltese: [mt]
- Norman: [nrf]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Telugu: [te]
[trans-bottom]
[process during which something comes into being and gains its
characteristics]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [in compounds] [hu] , [hu]
- Polish: [pl]
[trans-bottom]
[geology: rock or face of a mountain]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Korean: [ko]
- Polish: [pl]
- Russian: [ru]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
[trans-bottom]
[military: grouping of units under a command]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Irish: [ga]
- Korean: [ko]
- Polish: [pl]
- Russian: [ru]
[trans-bottom]
[military: arrangement of moving troops, ships, or aircraft]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Greek:
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Irish: [ga]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko]
- Malay: [ms]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Polish: [pl]
- Russian: [ru]
[trans-bottom]
[process of influencing or guiding a person to a deeper understanding of a
particular vocation]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Swedish: [sv]
[trans-bottom]
[checktrans-top]
- Malayalam: [ml]
- Romanian: [ro]
[trans-bottom]
**** Further reading
- [formāciǒun]
- [volume=IV]
- [R:Webster 1913]
- [R:Century 1911]
** French
*** Etymology
[fr], borrowed from [fr]. Cf. also the archaic [fr].
*** Pronunciation
- [fr-IPA]
- [fr]
- [fr]
- [fr]
- [fr]
- [fr]
- [fr]
*** Noun
[f]
1. [en] , forming , development
2. education ; training
3. [fr] [en]
**** Derived terms
- [fr]
**** Related terms
- [fr]
**** Descendants
- [nl]
*** Further reading
- [R:fr:TLFi]
[fr]
** Swedish
*** Etymology
From [sv].
*** Pronunciation
- [sv]
*** Noun
[c]
1. [en]
**** Declension
[sv-infl-noun-c-er]
*** References
- [so]