Какво означава formation на английски?

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formation Значение & определение

0 the way something is naturally made or the way it has been arranged:
- a rock formation
- cloud formations
- the formation of a crystal
- marching in close formation
- There is a time for trying new formations and asking players to do slightly different things.
- a 4-4-2 formation
1 a large area of rock that has characteristics different from the land surrounding it
2 the process by which something comes into existence or begins to have a particular order or shape:
- [ U ] They called for the formation of a committee to investigate corruption.
- [ C ] unusual cloud formations
- [ U ] The soldiers marched in formation (= in an orderly arrangement).
3 the development or creation of a company, organization, etc.:
- His company has made excellent progress since its formation three years ago.
- The arts center is completing the formation of a search committee for a new chief executive officer.

His decision to change the team's formation for the final match was a masterstroke.
One motorbike peeled away from the formation and circled round behind the rest.
He played a seminal role in the formation of the association.
The manager had been experimenting with different formations.
Coral is a limestone formation formed in the sea by millions of tiny animals.
Postmodern localism is a symptom, a cluster of reaction formations against modernism's failure to totalize.
The contact with the underlying and overlying formations cannot be observed.
Most of these correlations have, however, been based on formations, groups and rock units of comparable size.