- Look up
formation in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Formation may
refer to: Back-
formation, the
process of
creating a new
lexeme by
removing or affixes...
- A
geological formation, or
simply formation, is a body of rock
having a
consistent set of
physical characteristics (lithology) that
distinguishes it from...
- In
psychoanalytic theory,
reaction formation (German: Reaktionsbildung) is a
defense mechanism in
which emotions,
desires and
impulses that are anxiety-producing...
- In ****ociation football, the
formation of a team
refers to the
position players take in
relation to each
other on a pitch. As ****ociation
football is...
- the
standard enthalpy of
formation or
standard heat of
formation of a
compound is the
change of
enthalpy during the
formation of 1 mole of the substance...
- some
felsic crust existed as
early as 4.4 Ga, only 140 Ma
after Earth's
formation.
There are two main
models of how this
initial small volume of continental...
- A
formation was a
variation of the single-wing
formation used with
great success by the New York
Giants of the 1930s and
early 1940s. This
formation was...
- A rock
formation is an isolated, scenic, or
spectacular surface rock outcrop. Rock
formations are
usually the
result of
weathering and
erosion sculpting...
- In linguistics, word
formation is an
ambiguous term that can
refer to either: the
processes through which words can
change (i.e. morphology), or the creation...
- Back-
formation is the
process or
result of
creating a new word via morphology,
typically by
removing or
substituting actual or
supposed affixes from a...
