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noun an arrangement of people or things acting as a unit
noun the act of fabricating something in a particular shape
noun the act of forming or establishing something
originFrom Middle English formacioun, formation, borrowed from Old French formacion, from Latin fōrmātiō, from fōrmō (“form”, verb); see form as verb. Morphologically form + -ation.
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