Synonyms:
formation
Meaning: an arrangement of people or things acting as a unit; "a defensive formation"; "a formation of planes"
Synonyms:
formation, shaping
Meaning: the act of fabricating something in a particular shape
Synonyms:
constitution, establishment, formation, organization, organisation
Meaning: the act of forming or establishing something; "the constitution of a PTA group last year"; "it was the establishment of his reputation"; "he still remembers the organization of the club"
Synonyms:
geological_formation, formation
Meaning: (geology) the geological features of the earth
Synonyms:
formation
Meaning: a particular spatial arrangement
Usage examples
Get your people out swiftly, keeping them in formation!
If, however, it is cloudy or the wind is blowing there is rarely any formation of dew.
Then all turn at once, changing from the long, narrow marching column into compact formation.
We were moving over grey rocks of dense and massive formation, which in cooling had formed into hexagonal prisms.
The formation of this Museum, the chief work of Sir Henry Cole's useful life, was far from exhausting his energies.
There was little change in the formation of the gorge; it still wound its erratic course between precipitous cliffs.
Doubtless in the manner of their formation, and in a due dependence of those who are to administer them upon the people.
Bishop Butler has helped many men in the intelligent formation of their character, and what higher praise could be given to any author?
Do our characters come to be what they are by chance, or have we anything to do in the formation of our own characters, and if so, in what way?
I had heard of the Giant's Causeway in Ireland, and Fingal's Cave in Staffa, one of the Hebrides; but I had never yet seen a basaltic formation.