Form

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Form is the shape, visual appearance, or configuration of an object. In a wider sense, the form is the way something happens.

Form may also refer to:

• Form (document), a document (printed or electronic) with spaces in which to write or enter data
• Form (architecture), a combination of external appearance, internal structure, and the unity of the design
• Form (education), a class, set, or group of students
• Form (religion), an academic term for prescriptions or norms on religious practice
• Form, a shallow depression or flattened nest of grass used by a hare
• Form, or rap sheet, slang for a criminal record

• Andrew Form, American film producer
• Fluent Form, Australian rapper and hip hop musician

• Form (arts organisation), a Western Australian arts organisation
• Form (visual art), a three-dimensional geometrical figure; one of the seven elements of art
• Poetic form, a set of structural rules and patterns to which a poem may adhere
• Musical form, a generic type of composition or the structure of a particular piece
• The Forms (band), an American indie rock band

• Form (computer virus), the most common computer virus of the 1990s
• Form (HTML), a document form used on a web page to, typically, submit user data to a server
• Form (programming), a component-based representation of a GUI window
• FORM (symbolic manipulation system), a program for symbolic computations
• Google Forms, cloud-based survey software
• Oracle Forms, a Rapid Application Development environment for developing database applications
• Windows Forms, the graphical API within the Microsoft .NET Framework for access to native Microsoft Windows interface elements
• XForms, an XML format for the specification of user interfaces, specifically web forms
• Form Energy, an American energy storage startup company. It is focused on utility-scale iron-air batteries.

• Kata (型 or 形), the detailed pattern of defence-and-attack
• Taeguk (Taekwondo) (형), the "forms" used to create a foundation for the teaching of Taekwondo
• Taolu (套路), forms used in Chinese martial arts and sport wushu

• Algebraic form (homogeneous polynomial), which generalises quadratic forms to degrees 3 and more, also known as quantics or simply forms
• Bilinear form, on a vector space V over a field F is a mapping V × V → F that is linear in both arguments
• Differential form, a concept from differential topology that combines multilinear forms and smooth functions
• First-order reliability method, a semi-probabilistic reliability analysis method devised to evaluate the reliability of a system
• Indeterminate form, an algebraic expression that cannot be used to evaluate a limit
• Modular form, a (complex) analytic function on the upper half plane satisfying a certain kind of functional equation and growth condition
• Multilinear form, which generalises bilinear forms to mappings V^N → F
• Quadratic form, a homogeneous polynomial of degree two in a number of variables

• Argument form, a.k.a. Logical form or Test form - replacing the different words, or sentences, that make up the argument with letters, along the lines of algebra; the letters represent logical variables
• Intelligible form, a substantial form as it is apprehended by the intellect
• Substantial form, asserts that ideas organize matter and make it intelligible
• Theory of forms, asserts that ideas possess the highest and most fundamental kind of reality
• Value-form, an approach to understanding the origins of commodity trade and the formation of markets

• Form (botany), a formal taxon at a rank lower than species
• Form (zoology), informal taxa used sometimes in zoology
• Form, object of study of Morphology
• "-form", a term used in science to describe large groups, often used in taxonomy
• Isoform, several different forms of the same protein

• Form (exercise), a proper way of performing an exercise
• Form (horse racing), or racing form, a record of a racehorse's performance
• Kata, a choreographed pattern of martial arts movements made to be practised alone

• Form (cigarette), a Finnish cigarette brand
• Form, a backless bench formerly used for seating in dining halls, school rooms and courtrooms
• Form, the relation a word has to a lexeme
• Formwork, a mold used for concrete construction

• FORM (disambiguation)
• Conformity (disambiguation)
• Deformation (disambiguation)
• Form factor (disambiguation)
• Formal (disambiguation)
• Formalism (disambiguation)
• Formation (disambiguation)
• Forme (disambiguation)
• Formula (disambiguation)
• Inform (disambiguation)
• Reform (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles beginning with Form
• All pages with titles containing Form

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