Formalise in a sentence as a verb

If 99designs didn't formalise it, someone else would've.

The benefit is that you can formalise all your obscure edge cases in tests.

But if it does, you pay me 1 BTC. We need to formalise the measurement first, but what about the general outline?

I would suggest seriously trying to formalise some of this stuff in a proof assistant like Coq.

You need to formalise amongst yourselves, the directors, a way of getting rewarded commensurable with your work.

Although I got a bit weary of people using Genetic Algorithms to do X. Usually, using a GA is saying "I have no flipping idea how my search space looks like", when the truth is "I've got a good intuition what I'm looking for, but I'm too lazy to formalise this and GAs sound cool".

In computing terms our ability to recognise something as correct predates and can transcend our attempt to formalise the logic of our program.

In computing terms our ability to recognise something as correct \npredates and can transcend our attempt to formalise the logic of our program.

In general the ability to do something about bullying in a company or institution depends on there being the management and adminstrative structure to formalise complaints without them going through the bully.

Formalise definitions

verb

make formal or official; "We formalized the appointment and gave him a title"

See also: formalize

verb

declare or make legally valid

See also: validate formalize