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Defenition of the word formation

    • Defenition of the word formation

      • the act of forming something; "the constitution of a PTA group"; "he still remembers the establishment of the hospital"
      • a particular arrangement
      • an arrangement of people or things acting as a unit
      • the fabrication of something in a particular shape
      • the geological features of the earth
      • the act of forming something; "the constitution of a PTA group last year"; "it was the establishment of his reputation"; "he still remembers the organization of the club"
      • creation by mental activity; "the formation of sentences"; "the formation of memories"
      • a particular spatial arrangement
      • an arrangement of people or things acting as a unit; "a defensive formation"; "a formation of planes"
      • (geology) the geological features of the earth
      • natural process that causes something to form; "the formation of gas in the intestine"; "the formation of crystals"; "the formation of pseudopods"
      • the act of forming or establishing something
      • the act of fabricating something in a particular shape
      • creation by mental activity
      • natural process that causes something to form

    Synonyms for the word formation

      • constitution
      • establishment
      • geological formation
      • geology
      • organisation
      • organization
      • shaping

    Hyponyms for the word formation

      • affixation
      • aquifer
      • backfield
      • beach
      • cave
      • center
      • chain
      • chain of mountains
      • cliff
      • collectivisation
      • collectivization
      • colonisation
      • colonization
      • communisation
      • communization
      • crater
      • delta
      • depression
      • diapir
      • drop
      • drop-off
      • elevation
      • encrustation
      • federation
      • filing
      • flank
      • flight
      • folium
      • foreshore
      • forging
      • fountain
      • granulation
      • grooving
      • groundwater level
      • head
      • ice mass
      • incline
      • incrustation
      • lakefront
      • line
      • massif
      • metalwork
      • metalworking
      • military formation
      • mineral vein
      • monocline
      • mountain chain
      • mountain range
      • mouth
      • natural depression
      • natural elevation
      • natural spring
      • oceanfront
      • outflow
      • outpouring
      • Pillars of Hercules
      • range
      • range of mountains
      • raster
      • rear
      • relict
      • reticulation
      • ridge
      • ridgeline
      • rifling
      • rig
      • rigging
      • scree
      • secondary
      • settlement
      • shore
      • side
      • slope
      • split
      • spring
      • talus
      • turning
      • unionisation
      • unionization
      • vein
      • volcanic crater
      • wall
      • water level
      • water table
      • wing

    Hypernyms for the word formation

      • action
      • activity
      • arrangement
      • beginning
      • commencement
      • creating by mental acts
      • fabrication
      • manufacture
      • manufacturing
      • natural action
      • natural object
      • natural process
      • object
      • physical object
      • placement
      • start

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