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Webster Dictionary

  1. Forming

    of Form

  2. Formingnoun

    the act or process of giving form or shape to anything; as, in shipbuilding, the exact shaping of partially shaped timbers

The Standard Electrical Dictionary

  1. Forming

    The process of producing secondary battery plates from lead plates by alternately passing a charging current through the cell and then allowing it to discharge itself and repeating the operation. (See Battery, Secondary, Planté's.)

Editors Contribution

  1. forming

    Verb use of the word form.

    Forming an orderly line created a real sense of respect at the supermarket.


    Submitted by MaryC on March 20, 2020  

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of forming in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of forming in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of forming in a Sentence

  1. Lee Jae-yun:

    In the long term, the biggest challenge is forming a platform of Samsung's own, those businesses have to keep increasing connectivity between devices, but so far it hasn't been able to create a lasting platform with presence.

  2. Phil Klotzbach:

    El Niño tends to have its strongest impacts on hurricanes forming in the deep tropics, so, Caribbean storms tend to really get knocked down in El Niño years, due to increases in vertical wind shear.

  3. Thomas Zurbuchen:

    At the heart of Lucy is the science and how it's going to talk to us about the Trojans, it's so important to go observe them because these asteroids tell us about a chapter of our own story -- in this case, the history when the outer planets were forming in the solar system.

  4. Jane Houlihan:

    Their brain is forming rapidly, and so when they're exposed to metals that can interrupt those natural processes, the impacts range from behavioral problems to aggression to IQ loss and all kinds of cognitive and behavioral deficits that can persist throughout life, pound for pound, babies get the highest dose of these heavy metals compared to other parts of the population.

  5. Althea Spinozzi:

    Draghi will face obstacles in forming a new government but I think he will succeed. Italian MPs do not want to go to new elections.

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