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formula Noun

— A formula is a way to do something or solve a problem that does not change much. There is no formula for making profit, yet many business people think there is. The formula for converting from kilograms to pounds is mathx\ \mathrm{kg} \times 2.2/math — Infant formula is a powder that you mix with water to make a drink for babies.

formula

— noun a group of symbols that make a mathematical statement — noun (= recipe) directions for making something — noun a conventionalized statement expressing some fundamental principle — noun a representation of a substance using symbols for its constituent elements — noun (= convention, rule) 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 — noun a liquid food for infants — noun (= rule) (mathematics) a standard procedure for solving a class of mathematical problems he determined the upper bound with Descartes' rule of signs he gave us a general formula for attacking polynomials

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Topics formula topics

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Language and thought Communication Story

Saying, proverb

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Work and occupation Occupation Working with minerals

Working with chemicals

What tools are used to work with chemicals?

test tube beaker Bunsen burner periodic table formula catalyst

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Simple sentences

He worked out a new formula.

Complete the formula here below.

Albert Einstein's theory of relativity is the most famous formula in the world.

In Japan, radioactive cesium was detected in baby formula.

Mary wants to marry a Formula 1 driver.

The structural formula for water is H-O-H.

The French Formula 1 driver Jules Bianchi has died, nine months after his crash at the 2014 Japanese Grand Prix.

First of all, learn the formula by heart.

This is his formula.

He may not have known the formula.

I don't find the formula.

I don't find a formula.

There's nothing wrong with the formula.

I've discovered Tom's secret formula.

Do you know the chemical formula of phenol?

What's the chemical formula for hydrogen peroxide?

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Archimedes' formula.

Why would she write down a mathematical formula?

My formula is almost completed.

Mr. Memory, what was the secret formula. you were taking out of the country?

The formula for life.

For the last time I ask you as the head of this clinic to give me your medicine formula.

Now, a formula to transform my beauty into ugliness, change my queenly raiment to a peddler's cloak.

Unfortunately, however, having forgotten the magic formula that would make the broomstick stop carrying the water, he found he'd started something he couldn't finish.

First sane remark I've heard today. I know a formula said to pop the pennies off the eyelids of dead Irishmen.

You must destroy the formula.

Not too old, not too young. I'm sorry I've forgotten the formula for clothing. I had to borrow this sheet from the ambulance.

Let me out! Oh, why can't I remember. the formula for dissolving iron?

Of course, it may be a pretty rotten formula, really.

Oh, it's not a rotten formula at all.

You know I have been working on a new formula for invisible ink that defies detection?

I know a formula said to pop the pennies off the eyelids of dead Irishmen.

I'm sorry I've forgotten the formula for clothing.

Oh, why can't I remember. the formula for dissolving iron?

And what complicated formula, Christy, have you proved?

As my heir. Sally has to recite a sort of formula over Geoff's body in front of the fireplace and the library in the presence of the entire household.

Just what sort of formula?

Why a mathematical formula?

My firm desires to improve upon its medical formula.

You see, not only will I derive a handsome profit.. From the medical formula you invent and endorse. But I shall also, be using your name as a slogan.

Yes, we expect a fine, medicinal formula from you.

He's in there now. Pottering around with improvements on his formula.

You must destroy the formula. - I've done that.

Found this, sir. Some formula.

My formula: 9-7-7.

News and current affairs

Viewed from the standpoint of food security and the wealth of rural areas, there is now an urgent need to revisit the CAP's main instruments so that a new policy formula can be introduced.

Still, Hong's formula is simple, and it starts to bite when earnings get really big.

Shortly after the election, the Iraq Study Group offered a bipartisan formula for the gradual withdrawal of United States troops.

Accelerating harvests would mean higher, more reliable production with less labor - a formula for stronger, more stable livelihoods.

But this formula does not clearly cover even the terrorist attacks of September 2001.

But suppose we try to define the attacks of September 11, 2001, as terrorism by using the following formula: a violent, organized, and public attack by private parties on other civilians, without guilt, regardless of the justice of the cause.

Whatever formula is adopted, it is certain that Roma children should be afforded the same opportunities as other children.

In the past, when politicians debated the EU's future, they spoke of a definitive formula for European integration, as defined in a famous lecture in 2000 by German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer.

To those on the left, France's generous benefits and strong trade unions provide a formula for a more inclusive welfare state.

To achieve this, the Global Change Council of Germany (WGBU) suggests that a budget formula be adopted.

For a majority of Russian citizens, economic prosperity and televised entertainment have become the modern equivalent of the panem et circenses formula of Roman times.

We economists were by and large capital boosters, and our magic formula for economic development was saving, investment, thrift, and wealth accumulation.

This could even be taken one step further, with SDRs being allocated according to a new formula that accounts not just for IMF quotas, but also for demand (or need) for foreign-exchange reserves.

The current formula would have the countries most in need of foreign reserves - that is, middle- and low-income countries (excluding China) - receiving just over one-third of the total allocation.

More borrowed growth - the Keynesian formula - may create the illusion of normalcy, and may be useful in the immediate aftermath of a deep crisis to calm a panic, but it is no solution to a fundamental growth problem.

Indeed, ignorance about what is actually at risk makes debates about the right formula for capital buffers surreal.

A formula for burden sharing would be needed that gradually increases domestic financing.

The third and seemingly scariest component of Hwang's formula, militarism, may in fact prove to be the system's Achilles heel.

But this formula does not clearly cover even the terrorist attacks of September 2001. If the motive of the airline hijackers was simply to kill infidels, their attack would fall outside the Congressional definition.

Eurobonds plus fiscal rules: this formula is the euro's best hope for salvation.

Here, too, no mathematical formula can help, because what we need to test is the reasonableness of our assumptions.

As Russia and Iran continue to send money and weapons, if not military advisers, to Syria, it is impossible to persist with hypocritical language that can be interpreted only as a formula for inaction.

The new transatlantic formula must be greater say in decision-making in exchange for a greater share of responsibility.

Placing ideology above pragmatism is a formula for failure in any crisis.

This formula worked with the Monetary Union.

That combination of philosophical radicalism and economic pragmatism has proven to be a perfect formula for Brazil's progress.

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