equation vs form

equation

noun
  • The act or process of equating two or more things, or the state of those things being equal (that is, identical). 

  • An assertion that two expressions are equal, expressed by writing the two expressions separated by an equal sign; from which one is to determine a particular quantity. 

  • A small correction to observed values to remove the effects of systematic errors in an observation. 

form

noun
  • Established method of expression or practice; fixed way of proceeding; conventional or stated scheme; formula. 

  • A specific way of performing a movement. 

  • A quantic. 

  • A class or year of school pupils (often preceded by an ordinal number to specify the year, as in sixth form). 

  • Constitution; mode of construction, organization, etc.; system. 

  • Show without substance; empty, outside appearance; vain, trivial, or conventional ceremony; conventionality; formality. 

  • A specimen document to be copied or imitated. 

  • A grouping of words which maintain grammatical context in different usages; the particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech. 

  • A blank document or template to be filled in by the user. 

  • Level of performance. 

  • Regularity, beauty, or elegance. 

  • The combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. It is not necessarily a closed solid. 

  • A window or dialogue box. 

  • Characteristics not involving atomic components. 

  • A thing that gives shape to other things as in a mold. 

  • The boundary line of a material object. In painting, more generally, the human body. 

  • A criminal record; loosely, past history (in a given area). 

  • The inherent nature of an object; that which the mind itself contributes as the condition of knowing; that in which the essence of a thing consists. 

  • An order of doing things, as in religious ritual. 

  • The shape or visible structure of a thing or person. 

  • The den or home of a hare. 

  • An infraspecific rank. 

verb
  • To provide (a hare) with a form. 

  • To assume (a certain shape or visible structure). 

  • To mould or model by instruction or discipline. 

  • To constitute, to compose, to make up. 

  • To put together or bring into being; assemble. 

  • To treat (plates) to prepare them for introduction into a storage battery, causing one plate to be composed more or less of spongy lead, and the other of lead peroxide. This was formerly done by repeated slow alternations of the charging current, but later the plates or grids were coated or filled, one with a paste of red lead and the other with litharge, introduced into the cell, and formed by a direct charging current. 

  • To give (a shape or visible structure) to a thing or person. 

  • To create (a word) by inflection or derivation. 

  • To take shape. 

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