formula
A group of words, numbers, or signs that tell you how to make or do something.
A fixed set of words, numbers, or symbols that shows how to make something, do something, or calculate something.
A usual way of doing something that works well.
A usual or expected way of doing something that is likely to lead to a particular result.
Special milk made for babies when they cannot drink their mother’s milk.
A manufactured food designed to be fed to babies instead of or in addition to breast milk.
Letters and numbers that show what is in a chemical substance.
A combination of letters and numbers that shows which elements and how many atoms of each are in a chemical substance.
- Base: formula
- Plural: formulae, formulas, formulæ
baby formula
1Milk substitute for infants
Special milk made for babies when they cannot drink their mother’s milk.
- She bought baby formula at the supermarket.
- The pediatrician advised changing the baby’s formula.
formula for success
1Method that leads to success
A way of doing things that makes you successful.
- Hard work is often seen as the formula for success.
- There’s no single formula for success in life.
mathematical formula
1symbolic rule or relationship in math
A short way of writing a rule in mathematics, using symbols and numbers, that shows how to get one value from others.
- You can use this mathematical formula to find the area of a circle.
- You can use this mathematical formula to calculate the area of a circle.
- Mathematical formulas are important in engineering.
- The teacher asked us to memorize the mathematical formulas for the test.
- Scientists often create new mathematical formulas to describe what they observe.