formulate
She is responsible for the formulation and implementation of marketing strategies.
the formulation of a scientific theory
The Enlightenment generated new formulations of religious belief.

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formulation | American Dictionary

formulation
noun[ C/U ]
us/ˌfɔr·mjəˈleɪ·ʃən/
the activity of creating or preparing something:
His main achievement was the formulation of compounds needed to sustain cells in test tubes.
A formulation is also a particular combination of ideas, words, or substances:
The preservative has been phased out of most flu formulations because of side effects.

Examples of formulation

formulation
Our task-based approach is presented in view of a rigorous mathematically-based optimization formulation, where cost functions characterizing human performance measures are implemented.
A systematic formalism to define activities and business processes is presented, as well as clear mathematical formulation and template representations.
Their formulation is vague and the arbitrary three-dimensional plots intended as abstract representations of the global array are not particularly informative.
This second formulation has the advantage of clearly preserving the distinction between religions and spiritual paths.
In a good theoretical formulation, households are just a large sector of the economy.
Although it is stated there for centrally symmetric bodies, the generalization to the non-symmetric case is straightforward (a formulation appears in [6]).
The inclusion of topographic effects is straightforward using the present scaling and formulation.
This formulation would be based on surface order, rather than structural relations.
In this scenario, such formulations as ' the people ' could ring distinctly hollow.
They proposed a canonical formulation to which any 'genuine theory' could be rewritten - otherwise it was not a theory.
Their formulation, which is entirely reasonable, is to encourage research in which normative responding is at least possible.
The scope of this formulation is to facilitate the implementation of control laws for systems where friction forces appear.
Practitioners can improve their skills in reaching an agreed problem formulation and agenda.
The optimal results obtained from these deterministic formulations may not serve the real purpose of modelling the problem.
The notation for the potential formulation is also simpler, making it easier to understand the underlying physics and mathematics.
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Collocations withformulation

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abstract formulation
Since the abstract formulation of the two techniques does not say much about their applicability, we demonstrate them on selected examples.
alternative formulation
The alternative formulation is redistribution that genuinely transforms the sources of ageism.
exact formulation
However, the exact formulation of exhaustiveness needs a slight change.
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