What is another word for formations?

Pronunciation: [fɔːmˈe͡ɪʃənz] (IPA)

Formations are structures created by arranging things in a particular way. Synonyms for the word formations can include configurations, arrangements, patterns, layouts, setups, compositions, constructions, structures, shapes, and designs. A formation can refer to the positioning of troops or vehicles in the military, also referred to as deployment. It can also describe the formation of rock layers or geological formations. The term can be applied to a choir or orchestra, where members are organized into specific patterns on stage. A sports team may also have different formations for various situations or strategies during play. In general, a formation is a deliberate arrangement of parts or elements for a specific purpose or effect.

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Usage examples for Formations

They are rarely overlaid with more recent formations, but stand forth as tangible evidence of the great antiquity of this region.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
And, second, we must not forget the intense denudation which they have experienced, so that miles and miles of strata which once existed have been swept away, and their materials built up into new formations.
"Geology"
James Geikie
The literary class of Queen Anne's day was admirably qualified for certain formations: the Wits leading the 'town,' and forming a small circle accepting certain canons of taste, could express with admirable clearness and honesty the judgment of bright common sense; the ideas which commend themselves to the man of the world, and to a rationalism which was the embodiment of common sense.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen

Famous quotes with Formations

  • The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations - each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy, bound together by cosmic harmony.
    Ruth Bernhard
  • But the revolutions and changes which are responsible for the present state of the earth are not limited to the upsetting of the ancient strata and to the ebbing of the sea after the formations of new layers.
    George Cuvier
  • What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men.
    Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • The earliest phase of social formations found in historical as well as in contemporary social structures is this: a relatively small circle firmly closed against neighboring, strange, or in some way antagonistic circles.
    Georg Simmel
  • The metropolis reveals itself as one of those great historical formations in which opposing streams which enclose life unfold, as well as join one another with equal right.
    Georg Simmel

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