formulation

formulate | American Dictionary

formulate
verb[ T ]
us/ˈfɔr·mjəˌleɪt/
to create something, esp. by putting together different parts:
The Administration said it was formulating a new policy for the Middle East.
New drugs are being formulated to combat malaria.

formulate | Business English

formulate
verb[ T ]
uk /ˈfɔːmjəleɪt/us
to develop all the details of something:
formulate a plan/strategy/responseLawyers have advised him not to comment because the firm is formulating a response.

formulation

noun[ C or U ]uk /ˌfɔːmjʊˈleɪʃən/ us /ˌfɔːr-/
The results will assist the formulation of policy on the provision of factory floorspace.

Examples of formulate

formulate
By formulating plans in advance, agents can avoid the need down the line to deliberate about their next move.
For the sake of quality standards and efficiency, generic plans of care are formulated for patients that are not responsive to individual circumstances.
The dancers returned because they could use it as a tool to formulate body actions which were outside their normal performance routines.
In many developing countries, pollution control regulations are formulated at the national level, but their enforcement is the responsibility of local environmental protection bureaus.
Psychologists risk a similar confusion in formulating principles taken to govern mental representations.
According to this definition - ideology-as-shorthand - it should have been no more difficult to assess a party's positions than to formulate one's own ideology.
The remaining generalised velocities must be formulated as functions of the previous ones.
The latter had formulated their opinions after a maximum of six months' teaching experience, the former after many years in the classroom.
Thus, the data could be helpful in evaluating or formulating a wave theory of turbulence.
We have formulated a constrained optimization problem to determine the least squares fit of a hyperplane to uncertain data.
Careful observation and description of tropical forest change provides the material from which specific hypotheses must be formulated and examined.
The discussion can be seen as a needed step before formulating conclusions and/or recommendations.
The methods used for formulating the recommendations are clearly described. 11.
Hence, it is reasonable to formulate the algorithm adaptively with respect to time.
Our pocketbook item is formulated in the same way with two small differences.
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