Formulaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Learned borrowing from Latin fōrmula (“a small pattern or mold, form, rule, principle, method, formula”), diminutive of forma (“a form”). See form.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈfɔː.mjʊ.lə/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈfɔɹ.mjə.lə/
• ハイフネーション: for‧mu‧la

名詞

formula (countable and uncountable, plural formulas or formulae or 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 ax + 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:

     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. (chiefly linguistics) A fixed phrase or set of words intended to be interpreted non-literally, typically used attitudinally or as part of convention; a formulation.

   Avoid the typical epistolic formalae, such as "Kind regards".

6. (Can we verify this sense?) (especially religion) A formal statement of doctrine.
   • 2004, Thomas Fisch, editor, Primary Readings on the Eucharist, Liturgical Press, →ISBN, footnote, page 34:

     The extract from the Missal of Constance, which was printed before the editio princeps […] does not contain the formulae for Advent, Sundays after Epiphany, Lent and the Sundays after Easter and Pentecost; […]

7. (countable, uncountable) Ellipsis of infant formula, drink given to babies to substitute for mother's milk.

   They tried switching formulas, and it seemed to work: the baby seemed more content while feeding.

   • 2018, Kristin Lawless, Formerly known as food, →ISBN:

     Many women advocate for formula, insisting that women who advocate breast-feeding have become self-righteous “lactavists,” as one writer puts it.

8. (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

関連する語

派生した語

• Irish: foirmle
• Scottish Gaelic: foirmle

Further reading

• “formula”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “formula”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• Formula in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈfoːr.mʊ.ɫa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈfɔr.mu.la]

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 and 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 (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, 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