Definition of formation

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Formation (n.) Mineral deposits and rock masses designated with reference to their origin; as, the siliceous formation about geysers; alluvial formations; marine formations..

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Re-creation :: Re-creation (n.) A forming anew; a new creation or formation.
Metaphysis :: Metaphysis (n.) Change of form; transformation.
Maleconformation :: Maleconformation (n.) Malconformation.
Parostosis :: Parostosis (n.) Ossification which takes place in purely fibrous tracts; the formation of bone outside of the periosteum.
Devitrification :: Devitrification (n.) The act or process of devitrifying, or the state of being devitrified. Specifically, the conversion of molten glassy matter into a stony mass by slow cooling, the result being the formation of crystallites, microbites, etc., in the glassy base, which are then called devitrification products..
Advise :: Advise (v. t.) To give information or notice to; to inform; -- with of before the thing communicated; as, we were advised of the risk..
Asaphus :: Asaphus (n.) A genus of trilobites found in the Lower Silurian formation. See Illust. in Append.
Know :: Know (v. i.) To be convinced of the truth of; to be fully assured of; as, to know things from information..
Garnishment :: Garnishment (n.) Warning to a person in whose hands the effects of another are attached, not to pay the money or deliver the goods to the defendant, but to appear in court and give information as garnishee..
Pantology :: Pantology (n.) A systematic view of all branches of human knowledge; a work of universal information.
Unreformation :: Unreformation (n.) Want of reformation; state of being unreformed.
Calamite :: Calamite (n.) A fossil plant of the coal formation, having the general form of plants of the modern Equiseta (the Horsetail or Scouring Rush family) but sometimes attaining the height of trees, and having the stem more or less woody within. See Acrogen, and Asterophyllite..
Thorough :: Thorough (a.) Passing through or to the end; hence, complete; perfect; as, a thorough reformation; thorough work; a thorough translator; a thorough poet..
Turonian :: Turonian (n.) One of the subdivisions into which the Upper Cretaceous formation of Europe is divided.
Creation :: Creation (n.) The act of constituting or investing with a new character; appointment; formation.
Formation :: Formation (n.) The manner in which a thing is formed; structure; construction; conformation; form; as, the peculiar formation of the heart..
Vortex :: Vortex (n.) A supposed collection of particles of very subtile matter, endowed with a rapid rotary motion around an axis which was also the axis of a sun or a planet. Descartes attempted to account for the formation of the universe, and the movements of the bodies composing it, by a theory of vortices..
Heading :: Heading (n.) The act or state of one who, or that which, heads; formation of a head..
Know :: Know (v. i.) To perceive or apprehend clearly and certainly; to understand; to have full information of; as, to know one's duty..
Xiphodon :: Xiphodon (n.) An extinct genus of artiodactylous mammals found in the European Tertiary formations. It had slender legs, didactylous feet, and small canine teeth..
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