different between formation vs anatomy

English

Etymology

From Middle English formacioun, formation, borrowed from Old French formacion, from Latin f?rm?ti?, from f?rm? (“form”, verb); see form as verb.Morphologically form +? -ation

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e???n
• (US) IPA^(key): /f??.?me?.??n/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /f?(?).?me?.??n/
• Hyphenation: for?ma?tion

Noun

formation (countable and uncountable, plural formations)

1. The act of assembling a group or structure. [from 14th c.]
   • 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     Some cloud formation was confirmed and rainfall was observed over some islands.

2. Something possessing structure or form. [from 17th c.]
3. The process during which something comes into being and gains its characteristics. [from 18th c.]
4. (military) A grouping of military units or smaller formations under a command, such as a brigade, division, wing, etc. [from 18th c.]
5. (geology) A layer of rock of common origin. [from 19th c.]
6. (military) An arrangement of moving troops, ships, or aircraft, such as a wedge, line abreast, or echelon. Often "in formation".
7. (sports) An arrangement of players designed to facilitate certain plays.
8. The process of influencing or guiding a person to a deeper understanding of a particular vocation.
9. (category theory) A structure made of two categories, two functors from the first to the second category, and a transformation from one of the functors to the other.

Related terms

• form

Translations

Further reading

• “form?ci?un, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928) , “Formation”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume IV (F–G), London: Clarendon Press, OCLC 15566697, page 464, column 1.
• formation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• formation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

French

Etymology

From Old French formacion, borrowed from Latin f?rm?ti?, f?rm?ti?nem. Cf. also the archaic formaison.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f??.ma.sj??/

Noun

formation f (plural formations)

1. formation, forming, development
2. education; training

3. (military) formation

Derived terms

• autoformation

Related terms

• forme

Further reading

• “formation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Swedish

Etymology

From Latin formatio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?rma??u?n/

Noun

formation c

1. formation

Declension

References

• formation in Svensk ordbok (SO)

English

Etymology

From French anatomie, from Latin anatomia, from Ancient Greek *???????? (*anatomía), from ??????? (anatom?, “dissection”), from ??? (aná, “up”) + ????? (témn?, “I cut, incise”) (surface analysis ana- +? -tomy), literally “cut up”. Doublet of ottomy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??næt?mi/

Noun

anatomy (countable and uncountable, plural anatomies)

1. The art of studying the different parts of any organized body, to discover their situation, structure, and economy.

   Synonym: dissection

2. The science that deals with the form and structure of organic bodies; anatomical structure or organization.

   Hyponyms: anthropotomy, phytotomy, zootomy

   • 1695, John Dryden (translator), Observations on the Art of Painting by Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy

     Let the muscles be well inserted and bound together, according to the knowledge of them which is given us by anatomy.

3. (countable) A treatise or book on anatomy.
4. (by extension) The act of dividing anything, corporeal or intellectual, for the purpose of examining its parts.

   Synonym: analysis

5. (colloquial) The form of an individual.

6. (euphemistic) The human body, especially in reference to the private parts.
7. (archaic) A skeleton, or dead body.
   • , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1 p.68:

     So did the Ægyptians, who in the middest of their banquetings, and in the full of their greatest cheere, caused the anatomy of a dead man to be brought before them, as a memorandum and warning to their guests.

8. The physical or functional organization of an organism, or part of it.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• phytotomy
• zootomy