Formation is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FORMATION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• something formed or made
• the action of forming or process of being formed
• a thing that has been formed
• a group of people or things in a particular arrangement or pattern
• The act of giving form or shape to anything; a forming; a shaping.
• The manner in which a thing is formed; structure; construction; conformation; form; as, the peculiar formation of the heart.
• A substance formed or deposited.
• Mineral deposits and rock masses designated with reference to their origin; as, the siliceous formation about geysers; alluvial formations; marine formations.
• A group of beds of the same age or period; as, the Eocene formation.
• The arrangement of a body of troops, as in a square, column, etc.
• an arrangement of people or things acting as a unit
• the act of fabricating something in a particular shape
• the act of forming or establishing something
• (geology) the geological features of the earth
• a particular spatial arrangement
• natural process that causes something to form
• creation by mental activity
• forming
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• an act of giving form or shape to something or of taking form; development

Words related to FORMATION

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Words that contain FORMATION

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How to use FORMATION in a sentence

• Hence Darwin regards selection as the paramount power, whether applied by man to the formation of domestic beings or by nature to the production of species.
• At the latter place, which is on a part of the Sandy-bay of Graybeast River, the trap formation, which is the copper-bearing rock, is first seen.
• The assembly of Haute-Guyenne was in course of formation.
• The coast promised well as to formation, though there was much to apprehend on the subject of the bottom.
• There is no objection to the formation of unions and trades councils, but membership must not be compulsory.
• These latter have at their disposal a militia, which is sometimes only in process of formation.
• The formation of a reserve makes it very difficult for the commander to fix the centre of gravity of the battle according to circumstances and his own judgment.
• The object of this indented formation was that each ship might bring her broadside to bear east, and yet fire clear of those to the east of her.
• No existing conditions can account for the formation of such solid rocks of ice at such a depth in the soil.
• The tenth century saw the formation of the first kingdom of Poland in central Europe to the east of the Germans.
• Thus under such circumstances the decomposition of any formation is impossible, for the inherent properties of a thing cannot be separated from it.
• When the movement is completed the company will be in the formation shown in the drawing.
• Only trained troops should be used, and the formation must be simple.
• So far as my experiments and experience go, the judicious use of good manure, on dry land, favors the perfect maturity of the tubers and the formation of starch.
• As has been suggested in previous discussions, it will be necessary in habit formation to vary the requirements among the individuals who compose a group.
• They are drift, thrown upon the primitive formation by some natural convulsion, and usually extend some twelve or fifteen miles into the interior.

Similar words containing FORMA without suffix tion

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