formation

IPA: fɔrmˈeɪʃʌn

The act of assembling a group or structure. [from Template:SAFESUBST: c.]
Something possessing structure or form. [from Template:SAFESUBST: c.]
The process during which something comes into being and gains its characteristics. [from Template:SAFESUBST: c.]
(military) A grouping of military units or smaller formations under a command, such as a brigade, division, wing, etc. [from Template:SAFESUBST: c.]
(geology) A layer of rock of common origin. [from Template:SAFESUBST: c.]
(military) An arrangement of moving troops, ships, or aircraft, such as a wedge, line abreast, or echelon. Often "in formation".
(sports) An arrangement of players designed to facilitate certain plays.
The process of influencing or guiding a person to a deeper understanding of a particular vocation.
(category theory) A structure made of two categories, two functors from the first to the second category, and a transformation from one of the functors to the other.

Examples of "formation" in Sentences

Mr. Pez, is there anything we can do to help? pilotshark has the contact in formation for a very good program.
“It all went into slow motion, and I felt like the missile and I were kind of flying in formation for a while,” he recalls.
Another way of attacking two-seater machines that we use in formation is for three men to go out to try to get at a machine.
Mineral crystals and their formation is a self-assembled process that is dependent on physical and chemical structural information.
Daniel: "Mineral crystals and their formation is a self-assembled process that is dependent on physical and chemical structural information."
There, I took off the coat and stepped around a corner to behold rows upon rows of Starfleet cadets in formation, uniforms perfect, expertly coifed.
If Obama, Axelrod and Plouffe can do the job of getting this message to stick (by getting their soldiers in formation and marching with it through the weekend talk circuit and not screwing it up) it just might have a chance to do some damage to the ever stalling right.