constitution establishment formation organization organisation | the act of forming or establishing something, the constitution of a PTA group last year, it was the establishment of his reputation, he still remembers the organization of the club |
Creation | (theology) God's act of bringing the universe into existence |
initiation founding foundation institution origination creation innovation introduction instauration | the act of starting something for the first time, introducing something new, she looked forward to her initiation as an adult, the foundation of a new scientific society |
re-formation regeneration | forming again (especially with improvements or removal of defects), renewing and reconstituting |
possession ownership | the act of having and controlling property |
creation creative activity | the human act of creating |
formation shaping | the act of fabricating something in a particular shape |
formation | creation by mental activity, the formation of sentences, the formation of memories |
verbal creation | creating something by the use of speech and language |
art artistic creation artistic production | the creation of beautiful or significant things, art does not need to be innovative to be good, I was never any good at art, he said that architecture is the art of wasting space beautifully |
creation | an artifact that has been brought into existence by someone |
formation | a particular spatial arrangement |
reticular formation RF | a complex neural network in the central core of the brainstem, monitors the state of the body and functions in such processes as arousal and sleep and attention and muscle tone |
steady state theory continuous creation theory | (cosmology) the theory that the universe maintains a constant average density with matter created to fill the void left by galaxies that are receding from each other, the steady state theory has been abandoned in favor of the big bang theory |
employee stock ownership plan ESOP | a program under which employees regularly accumulate shares and may ultimately assume control of the company |
creation science | an effort to give scientific support for the truth of the account of Creation given in the Book of Genesis |
back-formation | a word invented (usually unwittingly by subtracting an affix) on the assumption that a familiar word derives from it |
calque calque formation loan translation | an expression introduced into one language by translating it from another language, `superman' is a calque for the German `Ubermensch' |
creation conception | the event that occurred at the beginning of something, from its creation the plan was doomed to failure |
formation | an arrangement of people or things acting as a unit, a defensive formation, a formation of planes |
military formation | a formation of troops |
geological formation formation | (geology) the geological features of the earth |
universe existence creation world cosmos macrocosm | everything that exists anywhere, they study the evolution of the universe, the biggest tree in existence |
heat of formation | the heat evolved or absorbed during the formation of one mole of a substance from its component elements |
ownership | the relation of an owner to the thing possessed, possession with the right to transfer possession to others |
employee ownership | ownership of a business by the people who work for it |
formation | natural process that causes something to form, the formation of gas in the intestine, the formation of crystals, the formation of pseudopods |
pair production pair creation pair formation | the transformation of a gammaay photon into an electron and a positron when the photon passes close to an atomic nucleus |
reaction formation | (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which a person unconsciously develops attitudes and behavior that are the opposite of unacceptable repressed desires and impulses and serve to conceal them, his strict morality is just a reaction formation to hide his sexual drive |
ownership | the state or fact of being an owner |