The process during which something comes into being and gains its characteristics.
An arrangement of players designed to facilitate certain plays.
An arrangement of moving troops, ships, or aircraft, such as a wedge, line abreast, or echelon. Often "in formation".
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.
The act of assembling a group or structure.
Something possessing structure or form.
A layer of rock of common origin.
A grouping of military units or smaller formations under a command, such as a brigade, division, wing, etc.
The process of influencing or guiding a person to a deeper understanding of a particular vocation.
The act of creating something or bringing something into being; production, creation.
Race, family; breed.
A set stage in the development of computing or of a specific technology.
The formation or production of any geometrical magnitude, as a line, a surface, a solid, by the motion, in accordance with a mathematical law, of a point or a magnitude, by the motion of a point, of a surface by a line, a sphere by a semicircle, etc.
A version of a form of pop culture which differs from later or earlier versions.
The act of creating a living creature or organism; procreation.
The average amount of time needed for children to grow up and have children of their own, generally considered to be a period of around thirty years, used as a measure of time.
A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or degree in genealogy, the members of a family from the same parents, considered as a single unit.
A group of people born in a specific range of years and whose members can relate culturally to one another.
A copy of a recording made from an earlier copy and thus further degraded in quality.