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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a substance prepared according to a formula; "the physician prescribed a commercial preparation of the medicine" [syn: formulation, preparation]
2: inventing or contriving an idea or explanation and formulating it mentally [syn: conceptualization, conceptualisation, formulation]
3: the style of expressing yourself; "he suggested a better formulation"; "his manner of expression showed how much he cared" [syn: formulation, expression]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: circa 1873 an act or the product of formulating

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Formulation For`mu*la"tion, n. The act, process, or result of formulating or reducing to a formula.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(formulations) 1. The formulation of something such as a medicine or a beauty product is the way in which different ingredients are combined to make it. You can also say that the finished product is a formulation. There have been problems with the formulation of the vaccine... You can buy a formulation containing royal jelly, pollen and vitamin C. N-VAR 2. The formulation of something such as a policy or plan is the process of creating or inventing it. ...the process of policy formulation and implementation. 3. A formulation is the way in which you express your thoughts and ideas. This is a far weaker formulation than is in the draft resolution which is being proposed. N-VAR

Moby Thesaurus

allocation, allotment, apportionment, architecture, arrangement, array, arraying, assembly, building, casting, choice of words, collation, collocation, composition, constitution, construction, conversion, crafting, craftsmanship, creation, cultivation, deployment, devising, dialect, diction, disposal, disposition, distribution, elaboration, erection, expression, extraction, fabrication, fashioning, form, formation, forming, framing, grammar, growing, handicraft, handiwork, harvesting, idiom, language, locution, machining, making, manufacture, manufacturing, marshaling, milling, mining, molding, order, ordering, parlance, phrase, phraseology, phrasing, placement, prefabrication, preparation, processing, producing, raising, refining, regimentation, rhetoric, shaping, smelting, speech, structuring, syntax, talk, usage, use of words, usus loquendi, verbiage, wordage, wording, workmanship