Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act or result of reformulating; a putting into another form or shape.

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  • noun The act of formulating anew
  • noun A new formulation

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Examples

  • The reformulation is a key step in Petroleos Mexicanos's ongoing Fuel Quality Improvement Program.

    Lloyd Mexico Economic Report June 2004 2006

  • The reformulation is a key step in Petroleos Mexicanos's ongoing Fuel Quality Improvement Program.

    Lloyd Mexico Economic Report June 2004 2006

  • I m starting to think that the word "reformulation" is just another term for "completely ruin."

    In Praise of a Sonia Rykiel Marina Geigert 2009

  • On the level of values, it goes from the idea of absolute Truth as a sacred legacy received from the past, to the idea of truth as a quest and a constant reformulation in the language of cultural evolution — a reformulation which is always approximate and relative, and which implies a keen awareness of the weakness and radical inadequacies of the human mind, as well as a more and more modest agnosticism.

    RELIGIOUS TOLERATION ELISABETH LABROUSSE 1968

  • There is telling people, and some people will change because you tell them, and there is reformulation which is changing things without people knowing about it.

    Home | Mail Online 2010

  • Big pharma has resolutely refused to buy into this "reformulation" concept, citing Nitromed

    Piggybacking on Orexigen's Unexpected Victory - The Source - WSJ 2010

  • There is telling people, and some people will change because you tell them, and there is reformulation which is changing things without people knowing about it.

    Home | Mail Online 2010

  • Textron Systems $24 million to look at the Apollo Avcoat TPS as a potential backup technology - although due to changes in environmental legislation since the 1960s the Orion Avocat would have to be a "reformulation" the space agency was expecting a preliminary design review (PDR) for its PICA heat shield in April that could have then seen this "subsystem" handed over to Lockheed for "integration" with the rest of the CEV

    HEADLINES 2009

  • Textron Systems $24 million to look at the Apollo Avcoat TPS as a potential backup technology - although due to changes in environmental legislation since the 1960s the Orion Avocat would have to be a "reformulation" the space agency was expecting a preliminary design review (PDR) for its PICA heat shield in April that could have then seen this "subsystem" handed over to Lockheed for "integration" with the rest of the CEV

    HEADLINES 2009

  • Apart from litigation, companies use other methods such as reformulation or licensing a subsidiary (or another company) to sell generics under the original patent.

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009

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