Formula in a sentence as a noun

While crafting it, you are not going by formula but what feels right.

You have basic formulas that you know can do okay but a hit is usually a surprise.

And the position of the sun relative to the building is also a simple formula based on time of year.

Add to that insurance, guarantees and other fixed costs and you have a solid formula for high prices for attendees.

Although we can't count infinite bags of marbles, we can still "pair them off" by showing some formula or algorithm that says which marbles go in pairs with which ones.

And if you really think about it, the only reason somebody gets out in the middle of the night and buys baby formula is that they need it, and theyve been waiting for it.

I tried Slate on several fields, but for none of them I could better understand what they were than by using Excel's build-in 'Trace precedents' or even by just reading the formulas.

I think annotations should be first; then abstracting away implementation details of formulas, you have more ideas yourself probably.

Given that this is the country that gave us freakin' Stone Henge you have to expect that someone remembered that there is a formula to predict exactly where the sun will be relative to a spot in England every day of the year.

But I do think that it isn't quite fair to characterize the solo-founder equation as a formula for failure when the vantage point from which this conclusion is reached is one where there's a huge enterprise and ecosystem behind the startups to provide funding, coaching, guidance and all that might be required in order to succeed.

On leaving these peaceable and free assemblies, some go to the synagogue, others in search of a drink; this man is on the way to be baptized in a great tub in the name of the Father, by the Son, to the Holy Ghost; that man is having the ******** of his son cut off, and a Hebraic formula mumbled over the child that he himself can make nothing of; these others are going to their church to await the inspiration of God with their hats on; and all are satisfied.

Formula definitions

noun

a group of symbols that make a mathematical statement

See also: expression

noun

directions for making something

See also: recipe

noun

a conventionalized statement expressing some fundamental principle

noun

a representation of a substance using symbols for its constituent elements

noun

something regarded as a normative example; "the convention of not naming the main character"; "violence is the rule not the exception"; "his formula for impressing visitors"

See also: convention normal pattern rule

noun

a liquid food for infants

noun

(mathematics) a standard procedure for solving a class of mathematical problems; "he determined the upper bound with Descartes' rule of signs"; "he gave us a general formula for attacking polynomials"

See also: rule