Definitions for formula

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formula for·mu·la

Spelling: [fawr-myuh-luh]

IPA: /ˈfɔr myə lə/

Formula is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 171 anagrams from letters in formula (aflmoru).

Definitions for formula

noun

1. a set form of words, as for stating or declaring something definitely or authoritatively, for indicating procedure to be followed, or for prescribed use on some ceremonial occasion.
2. any fixed or conventional method for doing something:
3. Mathematics. a rule or principle, frequently expressed in algebraic symbols. such a symbolic expression.
4. Chemistry. an expression of the constituents of a compound by symbols and figures. Compare empirical formula, molecular formula, structural formula.
5. a recipe or prescription:
6. a special nutritive mixture, especially of milk, sugar, and water, in prescribed proportions for feeding a baby.
7. a formal statement of religious doctrine.
8. (initial capital letter) a set of specifications as to weight, engine displacement, fuel capacity, etc., for defining a class of racing cars (usually followed by a limiting numerical designation):

Origin of formula

1575-85; Latin: register, form, rule. See form, -ule

Examples for formula

The formula came glibly, but it was from the lips only that it came.

I'm just not sure that the formula continues to work for us at 50 given other uses we might have for that money.

The cutting harshness of Pierre's formula struck him in the heart.

Indeed, Lion Air, with 45 percent of the domestic Indonesian airline market, has swallowed the Fernandes formula whole.

Such a formula expresses the commandment of sexual ethics as we have defined it.

Paine was indeed of no century, and no formula of classification can confine him.

Where was the formula, the dogma, that would satisfy the hopes of the mankind of to-day?

The European formula for Fireball has even less: under one gram per kilogram of propylene glycol.

When we devised the formula we use to determine poverty in the United States, it was 1964.

The formula of most of their programs has Drew doing the house hunting and Jonathan doing the design and construction.