0 the way something is naturally made or the way it has been arranged:
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.
[ U ] The soldiers marched in formation (= in an orderly arrangement).
3 the development or creation of a company, organization, etc.:
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.
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