Dictionary Entry
formation
formation is a 9-letter English word with 13 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of giving form or shape to anything; a forming; a shaping. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 16 · 13 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The act of giving form or shape to anything; a forming; a shaping.
- 2noun
The manner in which a thing is formed; structure; construction; conformation; form; as, the peculiar formation of the heart.
- 3noun
A substance formed or deposited.
- 4noun
Mineral deposits and rock masses designated with reference to their origin; as, the siliceous formation about geysers; alluvial formations; marine formations.
- 5noun
A group of beds of the same age or period; as, the Eocene formation.
- 6noun
The arrangement of a body of troops, as in a square, column, etc.
- 7noun
the act of forming or establishing something
"the constitution of a PTA group last year"
"it was the establishment of his reputation"
- 8noun
the act of fabricating something in a particular shape
Synonyms
- 9noun
creation by mental activity
"the formation of sentences"
"the formation of memories"
- 10noun
a particular spatial arrangement
- 11noun
an arrangement of people or things acting as a unit
"a defensive formation"
"a formation of planes"
- 12noun
(geology) the geological features of the earth
- 13noun
natural process that causes something to form
"the formation of gas in the intestine"
"the formation of crystals"
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