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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun formulation has 3 senses

• formulation(n = noun.substance) preparation - a substance prepared according to a formula; "the physician prescribed a commercial preparation of the medicine"
has particulars: cleaner, cleanser, cleansing agent, glycerinated gelatin, nebula, polish, starch, smelling salts
is a kind of chemical compound, compound
Derived form verb formulate₄

• formulation(n = noun.act) conceptualisation, conceptualization - inventing or contriving an idea or explanation and formulating it mentally; Array
is a kind of creating by mental acts
has particulars: approach, attack, plan of attack, framing
Derived forms verb formulate₁, verb formulate₃, verb formulate₂

• formulation(n = noun.communication) expression - the style of expressing yourself; "he suggested a better formulation"; "his manner of expression showed how much he cared"
has particulars: sentimentalism, honorific, archaicism, archaism, boilerplate, colloquialism, idiom, parlance, americanism, anglicism, briticism, britishism, choice of words, diction, phraseology, phrasing, verbiage, wording
is a kind of expressive style, style
Derived form verb formulate₃

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THESAURUS

formulation

allocation, allotment, apportionment, architecture, arrangement, array, arraying, assembly, building, casting, choice of words, collation, collocation, composition, constitution, construction, conversion, crafting, craftsmanship, creation, cultivation, deployment, devising, dialect, diction, disposal, disposition, distribution, elaboration, erection, expression, extraction, fabrication, fashioning, form, formation, forming, framing, grammar, growing, handicraft, handiwork, harvesting, idiom, language, locution, machining, making, manufacture, manufacturing, marshaling, milling, mining, molding, order, ordering, parlance, phrase, phraseology, phrasing, placement, prefabrication, preparation, processing, producing, raising, refining, regimentation, rhetoric, shaping, smelting, speech, structuring, syntax, talk, usage, use of words, usus loquendi, verbiage, wordage, wording, workmanship

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