formula – English noun declension

English noun forms of formula

Noun: formula
Singularformula
Pluralformulas; formulae

Sample Sentences

  • x=(-b±√)/(2a) is a formula for finding the roots of the quadratic equation ax² + bx + c = 0.
  • H₂O is the formula for water.
  • The company's winning formula includes excellent service and quality products.
  • Shakespeare has gone back to the formula of last season, by encouraging his players to press high up the pitch and restoring Shinji Okazaki to the starting XI to scurry around between midfield and attack. [2017 March 14, Stuart James, “Leicester stun Sevilla to reach last eight after Kasper Schmeichel save”, in the Guardian:]
  • Delays, large and small, have a huge variety of causes, so there is no magic formula for preventing them. [2019 October, Ian Walmsley, “Cleaning up”, in Modern Railways, page 42:]
  • The formula of the rocket fuel has not been revealed.
  • Avoid the typical epistolic formalae, such as "Kind regards".
  • The extract from the Missal of Constance, which was printed before the editio princeps […] does not contain the formulae for Advent, Sundays after Epiphany, Lent and the Sundays after Easter and Pentecost; […] [2004, Thomas Fisch, editor, Primary Readings on the Eucharist, Liturgical Press, →ISBN, footnote, page 34:]
  • They tried switching formulas, and it seemed to work: the baby seemed more content while feeding.
  • Many women advocate for formula, insisting that women who advocate breast-feeding have become self-righteous “lactavists,” as one writer puts it. [2018, Kristin Lawless, Formerly known as food, →ISBN:]

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin fōrmula (“a small pattern or mold, form, rule, principle, method, formula”), diminutive of forma (“a form”). See form.

Verbs referencing "formula"

Finnish Nouns formula, Irish Nouns foirmle.