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词汇 formation
释义 formation
noun
uk /fɔːˈmeɪ.ʃən/ us /fɔːrˈmeɪ.ʃən/
C2[ C ]
the way something is naturally made or the way it has been arranged: 结构;形状;形成方式;组成方式
a rock formation一块岩石的结构
cloud formations云的形状
C2[ U ]
the development of something into a particular thing or shape: 形成,构成
the formation of a crystal晶体的构成
 in formation
Activities that are done in formation are done in a pattern by a number of people, vehicles, etc. moving together: 编队,以…队形
marching in close formation以紧凑的队形前进
[ C ]
an arrangement of a team's players on an American football or association football field: (足球)阵型
There is a time for trying new formations and asking players to do slightly different things.现在是尝试新阵型并要求队员略作改变的时候了。
a 4-4-2 formation四四二阵型
The team was lined up in a punting formation.
His decision to change the team's formation for the final match was a masterstroke.
One motorbike peeled away from the formation and circled round behind the rest.一辆摩托车脱离了车队,在其他车后面绕行。
He played a seminal role in the formation of the association.他在协会的创立过程中起了奠基性作用。
The manager had been experimenting with different formations.
Coral is a limestone formation formed in the sea by millions of tiny animals.
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General terms used in ball sports
Football/soccer
American football

formation | American Dictionary


formation
noun[ C/U ]
us/fɔrˈmeɪ·ʃən/

formationnoun[C/U] (ROCK)


earth science
a large area of rock that has characteristics different from the land surrounding it

formationnoun[C/U] (COMING TOGETHER)


the process by which something comes into existence or begins to have a particular order or shape:
[ U ]They called for the formation of a committee to investigate corruption.
A formation is the particular form that something has taken, or the things or people having this form:
[ C ]unusual cloud formations
[ U ]The soldiers marched in formation (= in an orderly arrangement).

formation | Business English


formation
noun[ U ]
uk /fɔːˈmeɪʃən/us
the development or creation of a company, organization, etc.:
His company has made excellent progress since its formation three years ago.
The arts center is completing the formation of a search committee for a new chief executive officer.
See also
capital formation

Examples of formation


formation
However, present indicative forms of auxiliaries are frequently omitted anyway in periphrastic formations.
All these features impeded the development of lasting state formations.
Rather, this question goes back to the relationship between neo-liberalism as a transnational strategy and specific national political formations and projects.
Fighting units had been standardized, so that the company, battalion, or division were terms used to denote approximately equivalent formations in every force.
The yolk follicles have no special arrangement, being generally in the form of widely distributed net formations.
Such social formations are both natural and numerous, and in phonology, they are to be found both before and after the rise of generative phonology.
Other commonly encountered formations include women's groups for water or fuelwood collection, and village-level rotational digging squads.
Absence of echodense formations excludes an intrapericardial position.
Second, does the category "abstract labor" exist in all social formations?
First, does the entity "abstract labor" exist universally in all social formations - does it belong to the general necessities of human reproduction?
Can we use this category in the analysis of different social formations?
The book is then divided into sections which cover all habitat types: coastal, freshwater, lowland rainforest and other lowland forest formations, limestone habitats and mountains.
Studies of suburbs and cities must combine the mutual interaction of socio-cultural formations and the built form.
In the longer term, however, fire may have a net positive effect on the radial growth of these species, particularly in denser formations.
The structure of low v'rzea depends on the successional stage, and species diversa ity increases with increasing age of the formations.
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Collocations withformation


formation

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abscess formation
Abscessformation occurs typically seven days after a wound infection, as happened here.
attitude formation
Furthermore, the aetiology of attitudeformation remains to be studied in greater detail.
biofilm formation
However, the role of phosphorus in biofilm formation in distribution networks is not completely understood.
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