📖 Definitions of "Formations"
noun
- 1
Something possessing structure or form.
- 2
The act of assembling a group or structure.
- 3
The process during which something comes into being and gains its characteristics.
- 4
A rock or face of a mountain.
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|---|---|
| shapingnoun | The action of the verb to shape. |
| organizationnoun | (countable) A group of people or other legal entities with an explicit purpose and written rules. |
| organisationnoun | Non-Oxford British English and Australian standard spelling of organization. |
| establishmentnoun | That which is established; as a form of government, a permanent organization, business or force, or the place where one is permanently fixed for residence. |
| constitutionnoun | (government) The formal or informal system of primary principles and laws that regulates a government or other institutions. |
| geologynoun | The science that studies the structure of the earth (or other planets), together with its origin and development, especially by examination of its rocks. |
| geological formation | A geological formation, or simply formation, is a body of rock having a consistent set of physical characteristics (lithology) that distinguishes it from adjacent bodies of rock, and which occupies a particular position in the layers of rock exposed in a geographical region (the stratigraphic column). |
| backgroundsnoun | A part of the picture that depicts scenery to the rear or behind the main subject; context. |
| bandsnoun | A strip of material used for strengthening or coupling. |
| battalionsnoun | (military) An army unit having two or more companies, etc. and a headquarters. Traditionally forming part of a regiment. |
| blocsnoun | A group of countries acting together for political or economic goals, an alliance. |
| bodies | a British television medical drama produced by Hat Trick Productions for the BBC. |
| chambersnoun | (by extension, law) Chiefly in in chambers: a judge's private office which is used for hearings that do not need to be held in open court. |
| clustersnoun | A bunch or group of several discrete items that are close to each other. |
| combinationsnoun | A one-piece form of underwear, being a combination of a vest or chemise and underpants. |
| compositionsnoun | A work of music, literature or art. |
| compoundsnoun | Anything made by combining several things. |
| configurationsnoun | The relative positions of a set of things; the way things are arranged or put together; |
| constellations | Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal of critical post-Marxist and democratic theory and successor of Praxis International. |
| coursesnoun | (obsolete, euphemistic) Menses. |
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