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 |
re-formation regeneration | forming again (especially with improvements or removal of defects), renewing and reconstituting |
formation shaping | the act of fabricating something in a particular shape |
formation | creation by mental activity, the formation of sentences, the formation of memories |
vegetation | inactivity that is passive and monotonous, comparable to the inactivity of plant life, their holiday was spent in sleep and vegetation |
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 |
vegetation | an abnormal growth or excrescence (especially a warty excrescence on the valves of the heart) |
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' |
formation | an arrangement of people or things acting as a unit, a defensive formation, a formation of planes |
military formation | a formation of troops |
vegetation flora botany | all the plant life in a particular region or period, Pleistocene vegetation, the flora of southern California, the botany of China |
geological formation formation | (geology) the geological features of the earth |
talus scree | a sloping mass of loose rocks at the base of a cliff |
heat of formation | the heat evolved or absorbed during the formation of one mole of a substance from its component elements |
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 |
vegetation | the process of growth in plants |