FORMATION

'Formation' can refer to:

★ Aerobatic formation, aerobatics performed with several aircraft

★ Formation (military), a high-level military organization

★ Formation, paper property defining the fibre distribution within the paper sheet

★ Tactical formation, the physical deployment of military forces

★ Formation (football), tactical formation in association football

★ Formation (American football), a set-up before the snap in American football

★ ''Formation (album)'', a music album by Kirk Fogg

★ Derivation (linguistics), the process of creating new lexemes from other lexemes

★ Back-formation, a word formed from an erroneous reconstruction an original linguistic form from a form mistakenly thought to be derived from it.

★ Class formation, an axiomatization of class field theory in mathematics

★ Offer and acceptance, an analysis of contract formation in law

★ Geologic formation, a formally named rock stratum or geological unit

★ the act of forming a (coalition) government, as performed by a formateur

★ Formation Records, a record label