formalism
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"In the future, we can use our formalism to consider more subtle problems in quantum thermodynamics," says Daniel.
From Science Daily • Dec. 23, 2025
And because of that, there’s a very rigid formalism to it, on just the formatting level.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 19, 2024
“Is there a universal basis for selection? Is there a more quantitative formalism underlying this conjectured conceptual equivalence—a formalism rooted in the transfer of information?,” they ask of the world’s disparate phenomena.
From Salon • Oct. 22, 2023
But disillusionment quickly set in: Mochizuki had spent 20 years single-handedly developing no fewer than 500 pages of a completely new formalism that other experts needed to decipher.
From Scientific American • Jul. 28, 2023
It seemed as if some penetrating lucidity permitted her to see the reality of things beyond any formalism.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
