FORMATION
Definition:
- [noun] an arrangement of people or things acting as a unit; "a defensive formation"; "a formation of planes"
- [noun] a particular spatial arrangement
- [noun] the fabrication of something in a particular shape
Synonyms: shaping
- [noun] the act of forming something; "the constitution of a PTA group last year"; "it was the establishment of his reputation"; "he still remembers the organization of the club"
Synonyms: constitution, establishment, organization, organisation
- [noun] (geology) the geological features of the earth
Synonyms: geological
- [noun] natural process that causes something to form; "the formation of gas in the intestine"; "the formation of crystals"; "the formation of pseudopods"
- [noun] creation by mental activity; "the formation of sentences"; "the formation of memories"
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Related Words:
- flight
- military formation
- backfield
- secondary
- line
- line
- center
- flank, wing
- head
- rear
- raster
- rig, rigging
- split
- filing
- forging
- metalworking, metalwork
- granulation
- grooving, rifling
- unionization, unionisation
- collectivization, collectivisation
- communization, communisation
- federation
- colonization, colonisation, settlement
- aquifer
- beach
- cliff, drop, drop-off
- delta
- diapir
- folium
- foreshore
- ice mass
- lakefront
- massif
- monocline
- mouth
- natural depression, depression
- natural elevation, elevation
- oceanfront
- Pillars of Hercules
- range, mountain range, range of mountains, chain, mountain chain, chain of mountains
- relict
- ridge
- shore
- slope, incline, side
- spring, fountain, outflow, outpouring, natural spring
- talus, scree
- vein, mineral vein
- wall
- water table, water level, groundwater level
- incrustation, encrustation
- reticulation
- affixation
