Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to formation or formations.

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  • adjective Of or pertaining to formation (in any of many contexts)

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Examples

  • According to Dr. Ross Todd (Rutgers), it is time to illuminate the formational (student learning, knowledge creation, use, production, sharing, and reading literacy) and transformational roles ....

    Celebrating Summer- BC teacher-librarian professionalism 2009

  • His side's problems are not stylistic or formational but involve a loss of collective confidence.

    Wigan focused as Charles N'Zogbia sends Blackpool into relegation zone 2011

  • According to Dr. Ross Todd (Rutgers), it is time to illuminate the formational (student learning, knowledge creation, use, production, sharing, and reading literacy) and transformational roles ....

    June 2009 2009

  • It was time to illuminate the formational (student achievement, knowledge creation, use, production, sharing, and reading literacy) and transformational roles.

    October 2008 2008

  • It was time to illuminate the formational (student achievement, knowledge creation, use, production, sharing, and reading literacy) and transformational roles.

    2008 IASL Conference -1 2008

  • When Howard Van Till, for instance, issues his call for definition, his worry is not what intelligence or design means as such, but what these terms mean in contexts where no embodied intelligence was acting and thus where his view of nature as a complete system of natural causes [cf. his fully gifted creation and robust formational economy] comes under pressure.

    Aiguy's Computer 2008

  • Though, Richard, you mentioned Bill Cosby-- I wonder if people of my generation might be MORE open to breaking free of that stereotype, since our formational television experience with a black family was....

    CSK: Redux Editorial Anonymous 2009

  • Having attended formational institutions on both sides of the Atlantic, I find that there is a lot to be said for Mr. Skublics contribution here.

    Archive 2007-06-01 2007

  • Having attended formational institutions on both sides of the Atlantic, I find that there is a lot to be said for Mr. Skublics contribution here.

    Forming the Priesthood 2007

  • "… I find it theologically awkward to imagine God choosing at the beginning to withhold certain gifts from the creation, thereby introducing gaps into the creation's formational history – gaps that would later, in the course of time, have to be bridged by acts of special creation."

    When Mixing Science and Theology is OK 2005

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