Noun, : His mystery stories were written according to a popular formula. ,a new formula for currant wine. ,Some races are open to Formula One cars. From Dictionary.com.
Mathematics is proven to be absolutely perfect and demonstrates in formulae that there are infinite degrees beyond the four we obviously know. From Wordnik.com. [Must Watch: Bill Maher's Religulous Trailer! « FirstShowing.net] Reference
The classical principles of feng shui are laid down in history, and although each practitioner has his or her own style, the formulae should be the same. From Wordnik.com. [Locked Rooms]
Those who didn’t like what he wrote followed him around until he was observed ripping several pages containing formulae from a book in the Royal Institute library. From Wordnik.com. [November « 2007 « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website] Reference
As for actually performing mathematical optimizations by refactoring formulae, that is something I suppose I would be bad at because I am not a trained mathematician as such. From Wordnik.com. [Team Euro Code « Climate Audit] Reference
TRC representatives said any documents containing scientific details such as formulae would not be released during the hearings. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
But one can have too much even of that very good thing, and I have therefore avoided as far as possible the more familiar "formulae" of folk-tale literature. From Wordnik.com. [Celtic Fairy Tales] Reference
Consider the "formulae" we regularly use to direct or punctuate the flow of conversation and often, too, to indicate the speaker's attitude to the person addressed. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 3] Reference
The Master, as I have said, had worked out his formulae. From Wordnik.com. [The Sleuth of St. James's Square] Reference
Examples would be the English language or the formulae of. From Wordnik.com. [The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind] Reference
Such formulae may be found in any standard work of thermo-dynamics. From Wordnik.com. [Steam, Its Generation and Use] Reference
In both of these formulae H.P. = the rated horse power of the boiler. From Wordnik.com. [Steam, Its Generation and Use] Reference
Everything now-a-days is expressed in terms of science and its formulae. From Wordnik.com. [Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles] Reference
Table 3 and appended formulae are useful for converting from one scale to another. From Wordnik.com. [Steam, Its Generation and Use] Reference
The calculation can be carried out in each region of velocity from the formulae. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
We will now give the formulae for the two solutions required in the sulphide process. From Wordnik.com. [Bromide Printing and Enlarging A Practical Guide to the Making of Bromide Prints by Contact and Bromide Enlarging by Daylight and Artificial Light, With the Toning of Bromide Prints and Enlargements] Reference
Ideas, algorithms, and formulae were in the public domain -- as were "business methods.". From Wordnik.com. [The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind] Reference
Giovanni and Lord Bayless Truxley were convinced that the man would work out the formulae. From Wordnik.com. [The Sleuth of St. James's Square] Reference
The formulae of defiance, insult, teasing, etc., rhymed and in prose, offer much of interest. From Wordnik.com. [The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day] Reference
Of the two, Rankine's assumption seems to lead to formulae that more nearly represent actual conditions. From Wordnik.com. [Steam, Its Generation and Use] Reference
The jewel-traders sent him to watch Rodman, and to kill him if he was ever able to get his formulae worked out. From Wordnik.com. [The Sleuth of St. James's Square] Reference
He claimed that mathematical theories came to him through the agency of a goddess writing formulae on his tongue. From Wordnik.com. [David Leavitt Does the Math] Reference
Drucker wanted his students to succeed as managers, but not by following formulae or precepts they learned by rote. From Wordnik.com. [Peter Drucker: The unreleased recordings] Reference
In the case of many formulae, it will be noticed that equal quantities of bromide and ferricyanide are recommended. From Wordnik.com. [Bromide Printing and Enlarging A Practical Guide to the Making of Bromide Prints by Contact and Bromide Enlarging by Daylight and Artificial Light, With the Toning of Bromide Prints and Enlargements] Reference
If Rodman could work out the formulae, jewel-stuff could be produced as cheaply as glass, and in any quantity -- by the carload. From Wordnik.com. [The Sleuth of St. James's Square] Reference
Later scholarship has added formulae, data, and historical analysis to back up Jefferson's concerns, while never surpassing his prose. From Wordnik.com. [The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind] Reference
The answer lies in Greek literature, and the essence of a literature cannot be extracted and bottled in a number of abstract formulae. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
He has made a serious attempt to capture the ethical world, and to coerce morality into obedience to the inflexible formulae of physics. From Wordnik.com. [Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles] Reference
Since then, I have had occasion to go more deeply into the subject and have used some of the formulae which follow, viz, rectified spirits. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference
All the formulae, however, for computing the calorific value of coals from a proximate analysis are ordinarily limited to certain classes of fuels. From Wordnik.com. [Steam, Its Generation and Use] Reference
For his starting-point had been to form a picture of the electro-magnetic field of force to which he could apply certain well-known formulae of mechanics. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
Then there was the 8ft long whiteboard, hung in the hallway, covered in a tangle of formulae and symbols, painstakingly written out in multicoloured marker pen. From Wordnik.com. [Facebook's intriguing world revealed] Reference
All at once, though, a string of both chemical and physical formulae -- the last thing a man would expect to think of in such a position -- flashed into my mind. From Wordnik.com. [The Winged Men of Orcon A Complete Novelette] Reference
The formulae for the algebraic expression of the relation between saturated steam pressures, temperatures and steam volumes have been up to the present time empirical. From Wordnik.com. [Steam, Its Generation and Use] Reference
These relations have, however, been determined by experiment and, from the experimental data, tables have been computed which render unnecessary the use of empirical formulae. From Wordnik.com. [Steam, Its Generation and Use] Reference
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