formation

n 1: an arrangement of people or things acting as a unit

2: the fabrication of something in a particular shape [syn: {shaping}]

3: the act of forming something; "the constitution of a PTA

group"; "he still remembers the establishment of the

hospital" [syn: {constitution}, {establishment}, {organization},

{organisation}]

4: the geological features of the earth [syn: {geological

formation}, {geology}]

5: a particular arrangement