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What is the noun for formative?

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form
  1. (heading, physical) To do with shape.
    1. The shape or visible structure of a thing or person.
    2. A thing that gives shape to other things as in a mold.
    3. Characteristics not involving atomic components. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
    4. (dated) A long bench with no back.
    5. (fine arts) The boundary line of a material object. In painting, more generally, the human body.
    6. (crystallography) The combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. It is not necessarily a closed solid.
  2. (social) To do with structure or procedure.
    1. An order of doing things, as in religious ritual.
    2. Established method of expression or practice; fixed way of proceeding; conventional or stated scheme; formula.
    3. Constitution; mode of construction, organization, etc.; system.
    4. Show without substance; empty, outside appearance; vain, trivial, or conventional ceremony; conventionality; formality.
    5. (archaic) A class or rank in society.
    6. (Britain) A criminal record; loosely, past history (in a given area).
    7. (Britain, education) A class or year of school pupils (often preceded by an ordinal number to specify the year, as in sixth form).
  3. A blank document or template to be filled in by the user.
  4. Level of performance.
  5. (grammar) A grouping of words which maintain grammatical context in different usages; the particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech.
  6. The den or home of a hare.
  7. (computing) A window or dialogue box.
  8. (taxonomy) An infraspecific rank.
  9. (printing, dated) The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured in a chase.
  10. (geometry) A quantic.
  11. (sports, fitness) A specific way of performing a movement.
  12. Synonyms:
  13. Examples:
    1. “Observing the variety of color, form, and aroma of summer flowers can enhance outdoor relaxation.”
      “I tucked Claire in, sitting beside her sleeping form and stroking back her light hair from her beautiful face.”
      “Beneath these arguments about legal form lie the wider issues of self-determination.”
formation
  1. Something possessing structure or form.
  2. The act of assembling a group or structure.
  3. (geology) A rock or face of a mountain.
  4. (military) A grouping of military units or smaller formations under a command, such as a brigade, division, wing, etc.
  5. (military) An arrangement of moving troops, ships, or aircraft, such as a wedge, line abreast, or echelon. Often "in formation".
  6. (sports) An arrangement of players designed to facilitate certain plays.
  7. The process of influencing or guiding a person to a deeper understanding of a particular vocation.
  8. The process during which something comes into being and gains its characteristics.
  9. Synonyms:
  10. Examples:
    1. “This type of joint typically comes in a chain formation or zigzag formation.”
      “During this period, many economists made outstanding contributions to the formation of this theory.”
      “We are interested in the formation of an Institute for the Study of Gerontology.”
former
  1. Someone who forms something; a maker; a creator or founder.
  2. An object used to form something, such as a template, gauge, or cutting die.
  3. (chiefly Britain, used in combinations) Someone in, or of, a certain form (class).
forme
  1. Obsolete form of form.
  2. (historical, printing) One side of a sheet, comprising four quarto pages or two folio pages.
  3. Examples:
    1. “In the 13th century, a cookbook was published in England called The forme of Cury.”
      “Products containing L-ascorbic acid may be unstable but this forme of vitamin C is the most potent on the market.”
      “Late progression of poliomyelitis or forme fruste amyotrophic lateral sclerosis?”
formative
  1. (grammar) A language unit that has morphological function.
formate
  1. (organic chemistry) Any salt or ester of formic acid.
forming
formerness
  1. Quality of being former, or belonging to the past.
formability
  1. The quality or degree of being formable.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Lead remains in batteries, but it's no longer utilized as a finishing material for steel to improve formability.”
      “Other advantages include good formability and most important, excellent weldability.”
      “The alpha-beta alloys are widely used because of their good combinations of strength, toughness, and formability.”
formedness
  1. (especially in combination) The condition of having a (specified) form
formating
  1. Misspelling of formatting.
formabilities
  1. plural of formability
formations
  1. plural of formation
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The northeast is a land of gently rolling tablelands interrupted by granite hills and rock formations.”
      “The orange and white striped jet fighters would weave in and out of formations with skill akin to that of ballet dancers.”
      “In New Guinea militia brigades held the gains of 1943 while AIF formations were withdrawn to Queensland to rest and re-train.”
formatives
  1. plural of formative
  2. Examples:
    1. “All possible formatives are separated from the stem and compared against a closed list.”
      “Different formatives may be customary depending on the verb from which the action nominal derives.”
      “Paradigms and different formatives have been presented over and over again as well as word formation means.”
formings
formers
  1. plural of former
  2. Examples:
    1. “We also installed new case packers, a new check weigher system, robotic palletizers and automatic box formers.”
      “Such people see getting these things as dependent on changing the ideas of opinion formers rather than mass agitation.”
      “The pantiles are made in the traditional way with wooden formers to shape the wet clay tiles to form the traditional shape.”
formes
  1. plural of forme
  2. Examples:
    1. “These formes are then placed on the printing press, inked, and printed onto sheets of paper or parchment.”
      “In many cases, the formes are reminders of the work of the individual tradesmen whose handiwork has outlived them.”
      “Elastomeric materials have long been used to produce printing blocks, printing rollers, printing formes and elastomeric covered printing sleeves for flexographic printing.”
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