Noun

(uncountable) The act of offering (an idea) for consideration.

(countable) An idea or a plan offered.

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(countable, business settings) The terms of a transaction offered.

(countable, US, politics) In some states, a proposed statute or constitutional amendment to be voted on by the electorate.

(countable, logic) The content of an assertion that may be taken as being true or false and is considered abstractly without reference to the linguistic sentence that constitutes the assertion.

(countable, mathematics) An assertion so formulated that it can be considered true or false.

(countable, mathematics) An assertion which is provably true, but not important enough to be called a theorem.

A statement of religious doctrine; an article of faith; creed.

the propositions of Wyclif and Huss

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Some persons change their propositions according as their temporal necessities or advantages do turn.

(poetry) The part of a poem in which the author states the subject or matter of it.

Noun

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(mathematics) Any mathematical rule expressed symbolically.

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

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

H₂O is the formula for water (Dihydrogen monoxide)

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.

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.

Drink given to babies to substitute for mother's milk.

(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.