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The act, process, or result of formulating or reducing to a formula.
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A medicinal preparation.
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Examples of formulation in a Sentence
The formulation of this definition of chemistry was due to Robert Boyle.
In proportion as the Christian Church had to go deeper into metaphysics in the formulation of its belief as to God, as to Christ, as to the soul, the Greek philosophical terminology, which was the only vehicle then available for precise thought, had to become more and more an essential part of Christianity.
In so doing they set to work at the same time to complete the development of ecclesiastical dogma; the formulation of the Catholic doctrine of the Sacraments was the work of scholasticism.
On the one hand, his whole formulation of Evolution in mechanical terms urges him in the direction of materialism, and he attempts to compose the mind out of homogeneous units of consciousness (or" feeling ")" similar in nature to those which we know as nervous shocks; each of which is the correlative of a rhythmical motion of a material unit or group of such units "(§ 62).
It prepared the way for the dogmatic formulation of the plenitude of the papal power three centuries later by the council of the Vatican.
It has to be competent to transmit the transverse waves of light and electricity, and the other known radiant and electric actions; the way in which this is done is now in the main known, though there are still questions as to the mode of expression and formulation of our knowledge, and also as regards points of detail.
At the council of Nicaea in 325 the deity of Christ received official sanction and was given formulation in the original Nicene Creed.
This found expression in the formulation of an apostolic scripture canon, our New Testament, and of an apostolic rule of faith, of which the old Roman symbol, the original of our present Apostles' Creed, is one of the earliest examples.
These first two books contain Smith's general economic scheme; and we have stated it as fully as was consistent with the brevity here necessary, because from this formulation of doctrine the English classical school set out, and round it the discussions of more modern times in different countries have in a great measure revolved.
In his own view the turning points seem to have been - (1) the transition from Fichte's method to the more objective conception of nature - the advance, in other words, to Naturphilosophie; (2) the definite formulation of that which implicitly, as Schelling claims, was involved in the idea of Naturphilosophie, viz.
Ilis theory was not a mere formulation of the Prussian state.
And it sets forth a dialectic with a twofold movement, towards differentiation and integration severally, which amounts to a formulation of inference.
The view of inference with which he complements it is only less satisfactory because of a failure to distinguish the principle of nexus in syllogism from its traditional formulation and rules, and because he is hampered by the intractability which he finds in certain forms of relational construction.
The statement that the increase of momentum is equal to the impulse is (it may be remarked) equivalent to Newtons own formulation of his Second Law.
When we pass from the consideration of discrete particles to that of continuous distributions of matter, we require some physical postulate over and above what is contained in the Laws of Motion, in their original formulation.
According to dAlemberts formulation, the extraneous forces together with the effective forces reversed fulfil the statical conditions of equilibrium.
Thus, so far from sectarianism being a mere modern development of Brahmanism, it actually goes back to beyond the formulation of the Brahmanical creed.
Far greater progress has been made in the formulation of general canons as to the nature, growth and treatment of the public revenues.
The formulation of electrical theory as far as regards operations in space free from matter was immensely assisted by Maxwell's mathematical theory.
Now that the controversy has cleared away, we see that in spite of Buckle's too confident formulation of his laws, his pioneer work in a great field marks him out as the Augustine of the scientific age.
The formulation of this objection by the synod of Pistoia,' in 1786, however, only provoked a clearer explanation of the doctrine, which contributed to confirm the cult.
In 1871 Fish presided at the Peace Conference at Washington between Spain and the allied republics of Peru, Chile, Ecuador and Bolivia, which resulted in the formulation (April 12) of a general truce between those countries, to last indefinitely and not to be broken by any one of them without three years' notice given through the United States; and it was chiefly due to his restraint and moderation that a satisfactory settlement of the "Virginius Affair" was reached by the United States and Spain (1873).
Neoplatonic philosophy had been in the main content either to formulate the contradiction or to deny the reality of one of the opposing terms. And traces of Neoplatonic influence, more especially as regards their doctrine of the unreality of the material and sensible world, are to be found everywhere in the Christian philosophers of Alexandria, preventing or impeding their formulation of the problem of freedom in its full scope and urgency.
The genesis and formulation of these types may be readily understood by considering the relation which exists between the alcohols and the parent hydrocarbon.
Apart, then, from the expanded treatment of space and time as subjective forms, we find in the Dissertation little more than the very precise and definite formulation of the slowly growing opposition to the Leibnitzian doctrines.
What is the hierarchy in the formulation of different types of environmental plans?
The formulation includes vitamin D to promote calcium absorption in the gut.
We devise an equivalent of the Jones matrix formulation for light possessing orbital angular momentum.
The absolute oral bioavailability of the tablet formulation is 87% .
This guideline will assist individual departments in the development and formulation of their own local protocols.
Stesolid is the usual rectal formulation consisting of a 2.5 ml rectal tube containing 5 mg or 10 mg diazepam.
This basis for a naturally fibrous (and therefore ' chewy ') texture has been exploited in the formulation of meat analogs.
In particular the ninth formulation has come in for much flak.
Vitreous enamel frits The formulation of the development of the specialized glasses known as vitreous enamel frits.
We can see why the formulation of a set of actions, like rules, has become a holy Grail of educational research.
We can see why the formulation of a set of actions, like rules, has become a Holy Grail of educational research.
The mathematical formulation presented assumes normal irradiance of the incident light on the sample but this can be altered for acute incidence.
This formulation is absolutely irreproachable from the standpoint of theory.
This new formulation in addition to a mixed version including both monopoles and dipoles were implemented in a computer code.
Indeed, meeting these prerequisites is a high priority in response formulation.
Comes with a Lifetime Guarantee as it's made from special formulation silicone rubber that is resistant to burning and melting.
Very few makeup companies possess the bragging rights of producing an enduring formulation that does not clog pores.
Longo's Baby Balm lipstick will leave your mouth baby soft with its Vitamin C and E formulation.
An alternative view, due to Green, is that the oxygen atom of the xanthone ring is tetravalent, a supposition which permits the formulation of these substances as ortho-quinonoids.
It cannot be maintained that the ideas of Ephesians directly contradict either in formulation or in tendency the thought of the earlier epistles.
The earliest formulation of the subject, due to Lord Kelvin, assumed that this relation was true in all cases, and, calculated in this way, the electromotive force of Daniell's cell, which happens to possess a very small temperature coefficient, was found to agree with observation.
Kuhn (1750-1751) and Jean Robert Argand (1806) were completed by Karl Friedrich Gauss, and the formulation of various systems of vector analysis by Sir William Rowan Hamilton, Hermann Grassmann and others, followed.
He is also responsible for the formulation of an important principle, called by Haeckel " the biogenetic fundamental law," viz.
In 1894 a dispute necessitated the formulation of the " Asquith award " by the Rt.
Folk-right is the aggregate of rules, formulated or latent but susceptible of formulation, which can be appealed to as the expression of the juridical consciousness of the people at large or of the communities of which it is composed.