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