Formation
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Formation can refer to:
- Aerobatic formation, aerobatics performed with several aircraft
- Formation (military), a high-level military organization
- Formation (paper property), defining the fibre distribution within the paper sheet
- Tactical formation, the physical deployment of military forces
- Formation (football), tactical formation in association football
- Formation (American football), a set-up before the snap in American football
- Formation (album), a music album by Kirk Fogg
- Derivation (linguistics), the process of creating new lexemes from other lexemes
- Back-formation, a word formed from an erroneous reconstruction an original linguistic form from a form mistakenly thought to be derived from it.
- Class formation, an axiomatization of class field theory in mathematics
- Offer and acceptance, an analysis of contract formation in law
- Geologic formation, a formally named rock stratum or geological unit
- Forming a coalition government, as performed by a formateur
- Formation Records, a record label
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