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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Formulation \For'mu*la"tion\, noun The act, process, or result of formulating or reducing to a formula.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
formulation
noun
1: a substance prepared according to a formula [syn: {preparation}]
2: inventing or contriving an idea or explanation and formulating it mentally [syn: {conceptualization}, {conceptualisation}]
3: the style of expressing yourself; "he suggested a better formulation"; "his manner of expression showed how much he cared" [syn: {expression}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
82 Moby Thesaurus words for "formulation": allocation, allotment, apportionment, architecture, arrangement, array, arraying, assembly, building, casting, choice of words, collation, collocation, composition, constitution, construction, conversion, crafting, craftsmanship, creation, cultivation, deployment, devising, dialect, diction, disposal, disposition, distribution, elaboration, erection, expression, extraction, fabrication, fashioning, form, formation, forming, framing, grammar, growing, handicraft, handiwork, harvesting, idiom, language, locution, machining, making, manufacture, manufacturing, marshaling, milling, mining, molding, order, ordering, parlance, phrase, phraseology, phrasing, placement, prefabrication, preparation, processing, producing, raising, refining, regimentation, rhetoric, shaping, smelting, speech, structuring, syntax, talk, usage, use of words, usus loquendi, verbiage, wordage, wording, workmanship
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