formulate

v 1: elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses; "Could you develop

the ideas in your thesis" [syn: {explicate}, {develop}]

2: come up with [syn: {invent}, {contrive}, {devise}, {excogitate},

{forge}]

3: put into words or an expression; "He formulated his concerns

to the board of trustees" [syn: {word}, {phrase}, {articulate}]

4: prepare according to a formula, of chemicals

formula

1. In logic, a sequence of symbols representing terms,

{predicate}s, {connective}s and {quantifier}s which is either

true or false.

2. FORTH Music Language. An extension of

{FORTH} with concurrent note-playing processes. Runs on

{Macintosh} and {Atari ST} with {MIDI} output.

["Formula: A Programming Language for Expressive Computer

Music", D.P. Anderson et al Computer 24(7):12 (Jul 1991)].

3. Preprocessor language for the {Acorn Archimedes}, allowing

inline high-level statements to be entered in an assembly

program. Written in {nawk}.