meaning of formula

1. A prescribed or set form; an established rule; a fixed or conventional method in which anything is to be done, arranged, or said.
2. A written confession of faith; a formal statement of foctrines.
3. A rule or principle expressed in algebraic language; as, the binominal formula.
4. A prescription or recipe for the preparation of a medicinal compound.
5. A symbolic expression (by means of letters, figures, etc. ) of the constituents or constitution of a compound.
6. formula 1. In logic, a sequence of symbols representing terms, predicates, connectives and quantifiers which is either true or false. 2. music> FORTH Music Language. An extension of FORTH with concurrent note-playing processes. Runs on Macintosh and Atari ST with MIDI output. ["Formula: A Programming Language for Expressive Computer Music", D. P. Anderson et al Computer 247:12 Jul 1991]. 3. Preprocessor language for the Acorn Archimedes, allowing inline high-level statements to be entered in an assembly program. Written in nawk. Formula ALGOL An ALGOL extension for symbolic mathematics, strings and lists, developed by A. J. Perlis and R. Iturriaga at Carnegie for the CDC G-20 in 1962. ["An Extension of ALGOL for Manipulating Formulae", A. J. Perlis et al, CACM 72:127-130 Feb 1964]. [Sammet 1969, p. 583].
7. something regarded as a normative example; "the convention of not naming the main character"; "violence is the rule not the exception"; "his formula for impressing ">visitors"

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