formula

Meaning

Noun

• Any mathematical rule expressed symbolically.
• A symbolic expression of the structure of a compound.
• A plan or method for dealing with a problem or for achieving a result.
• A formulation; a prescription; a mixture or solution made in a prescribed manner; the identity and quantities of ingredients of such a mixture.
• A formal statement of doctrine, as in religion.
• ; drink given to babies to substitute for mother's milk.
• A syntactic expression of a proposition, built up from quantifiers, logical connectives, variables, relation and operation symbols, and, depending on the type of logic, possibly other operators such as modal, temporal, deontic or epistemic ones.

Origin

• Borrowed from Latin formula ("a small pattern or mold, form, rule, principle, method, formula"), diminutive of forma; see form.