Formula Meaning
/ˈfɔː.mjʊ.lə/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounAny mathematical rule expressed symbolically.
nounA symbolic expression of the structure of a compound.
Sentence Examples
First of all, learn the formula by heart.
The question of how to establish the optimal formula is still open.
This formula is used to calculate the area of a circle.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The scientist wrote down the chemical ____ for water as H2O.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The scientist developed a new ____ for a cleaning solution that is both effective and eco-friendly.
Word Origin & History
Learned borrowing from Latin fōrmula (“a small pattern or mold, form, rule, principle, method, formula”), diminutive of forma (“a form”). See form.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Shakespeare has gone back to the formula of last season, by encouraging his players to press high up the pitch and restoring Shinji Okazaki to the starting XI to scurry around between midfield and attack."
— 2017 March 14, Stuart James, “Leicester stun Sevilla to reach last eight after Kasper Schmeichel save”, in the Guardian:
"Delays, large and small, have a huge variety of causes, so there is no magic formula for preventing them."
— 2019 October, Ian Walmsley, “Cleaning up”, in Modern Railways, page 42:
"The extract from the Missal of Constance, which was printed before the editio princeps […] does not contain the formulae for Advent, Sundays after Epiphany, Lent and the Sundays after Easter and Pentecost; […]"
— 2004, Thomas Fisch, editor, Primary Readings on the Eucharist, Liturgical Press, →ISBN, footnote, page 34:
"Many women advocate for formula, insisting that women who advocate breast-feeding have become self-righteous “lactavists,” as one writer puts it."
— 2018, Kristin Lawless, Formerly known as food, →ISBN:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The scientist wrote down the chemical ____ for water as H2O.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The scientist developed a new ____ for a cleaning solution that is both effective and eco-friendly.