formulaとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈfɔː.mjʊ.lə/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfɔɹ.mjə.lə/

名詞

formula (複数形 formulae または formulas または formulæ)

1. (mathematics) Any mathematical rule expressed symbolically.

   Synonym: mathematical formula

   ${\displaystyle x={\frac {-b\pm {\sqrt {b^{2}-4ac}}}{2a}}}$ is a formula for finding the roots of the quadratic equation ax² + bx + c = 0.

   Hyponyms: Brahmagupta's formula, Bretschneider's formula, Cauchy's integral formula, Cayley's formula, De Moivre's formula, Euler's formula, Faulhaber's formula, Heron's formula, haversine formula, Jacobi's formula, Legendre's formula, Stirling's formula, Vieta's formulas, Viète's formula

2. (chemistry) A symbolic expression of the structure of a compound.

   Synonym: chemical formula

   H₂O is the formula for water.

3. A plan or method for dealing with a problem or for achieving a result.

   The company's winning formula includes excellent service and quality products.

   • 2017 March 14, Stuart James, “Leicester stun Sevilla to reach last eight after Kasper Schmeichel save”, in the Guardian‎^[1]:

     Shakespeare has gone back to the formula of last season, by encouraging his players to press high up the pitch and restoring Shinji Okazaki to the starting XI to scurry around between midfield and attack.

   • 2019 October, Ian Walmsley, “Cleaning up”, in Modern Railways, page 42:

     Delays, large and small, have a huge variety of causes, so there is no magic formula for preventing them.

4. A formulation; a prescription; a mixture or solution made in a prescribed manner; the identity and quantities of ingredients of such a mixture.

   The formula of the rocket fuel has not been revealed.

5. A formal statement of doctrine, as in religion.
6. (countable, uncountable) Ellipsis of infant formula; drink given to babies to substitute for mother's milk.
   • 2018, Kristin Lawless, Formerly known as food, →ISBN, page 85:

     Before the early 1900s, mothers who couldn't breast-feed for medical reasons didn't have the option of infant formula and often used wet nurses, or women who were employed to breast-feed children other than their own.

7. (logic) A syntactic expression of a proposition, built up from quantifiers, logical connectives, variables, relation and operation symbols, and, depending on the type of logic, possibly other operators such as modal, temporal, deontic or epistemic ones.

   Hyponym: sentence

派生語

• formula architecture
• formula investing
• formula investor
• formula plan
• formulate
• formulation
• Formula One
• formula racing
• multiformula

関連する語

派生した語

• Irish: foirmle
• Scottish Gaelic: foirmle

Further reading

• “formula” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• formula in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

• Formula in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Latin

語源

Diminutive, from fōrma +‎ -ulus.

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfoːr.mu.la/, [ˈfoːrmʊɫ̪ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfor.mu.la/, [ˈfɔrmulä]

名詞

fōrmula f (genitive fōrmulae); first declension

1. shape, outline
2. (fine) form; beauty
3. pattern, mould; paradigm
4. form, rule, method, formula
5. lawsuit, action

語形変化

First-declension noun.

派生した語

参照

• formula in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• formula in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• formula in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius かつ others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• formula in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• formula in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[3], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• formula in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin