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Formal language (4349 bytes)
1: ...is article is the precise sense studied in formal language theory.
5: A typical language over that alphabet, containing that string, would...
7: ... finite set and every string has finite length, a language may very well have infinitely many member strings...
9: Some examples of formal languages:
13: ...actically correct programs in a given programming language; or

List of formal language and literal string topics (1656 bytes)
1: This is a '''list of [[formal language]] and [[literal string]] topics''', by Wikipedia ...
3: ==Formal languages==
11: *[[Context-sensitive language]]
12: *[[Decidable language]]
13: *[[Finite language]]

Formal (1387 bytes)
1: '''Formal''' - relating to ''form''.
3: For example, '''formal''' [[logic]] [[reason]]s about a [[logical argume...
17: ...ties]] hold for a [[formal specification]] of a [[formal system]]
18: * [[Formal power series]] extend the notion of a [[power ser...
19: * [[Formal grammar]] - [[formal system]] - [[formal set theory]]

Formal wear (371 bytes)
1: ...especially weddings and [[funeral]]s. Examples of formal wear include: [[tuxedo]]s, [[dress pants]], [[dre...

Formal organization (3896 bytes)
1: ... in others, they may be little more than an empty formalism.
4: ==Distinction from informal organization==
6: ...n order to create workable structures. However, informal organization can fail, or, if already set in orde...
9: ...elations Movement]]. It is important to analyze informal structures within an enterprise to make use of po...
11: ==Reasons for informal organization==

Formal methods (628 bytes)
1: In [[computer science]], '''formal methods''' refers to a variety of scientific and...
3: The role of formal methods in [[software engineering]] engenders muc...
15: * [http://vl.fmnet.info/ Virtual Library formal methods]

Formal system (2580 bytes)
1: ... of a real-world or conceptual system in [[formal language]].
3: ...naturalisation have tended over time towards more formal models.
5: ...duced by [[Carnap]]). The [[object language]]/metalanguage distinction used in [[computer science]] is a lit...
7: ...'a formalism''', more-or-less synonymously with a formal system ''within standard mathematics'' invented f...
9: Mathematical formal systems consist of the following:

Formal verification (1701 bytes)
2: '''formal verification''' is the act of
4: with respect to a certain formal specification or property,
5: using [[formal methods]].
7: ...m types that are considered in the literature for formal verification
20: Usually formal verification is carried out algorithmically.

Formal dinner (157 bytes)
1: Formal dinner involves dining in the collegiate manner s...

Formal equivalence (1506 bytes)
1: ...ferring to ones which have been translated with a formal equivalence translation approach.
3: ...n. Word-for-word translation is a lay term, while formal equivalence translation is a technical term.
5: ...[rhetoric]]al patterns, such as Biblical [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]] poetic parallelism, and how individual a...
8: *[http://thesumners.com/bible/methods1.html Formal Equivalence (Word-for-Word)]
9: ...om/bible_translation/glossf.htm#formalequivalence Formal Equivalence translation]

Formal principle (425 bytes)
1: ...ered leaders of the religion or tradition. If the formal principle is properly identified, a scholar will ...

Formal grammar (10006 bytes)
1: ...s are so named by analogy to [[grammar]] in human languages.
3: Formal grammars fall into two main categories: ''generat...
5: ...es an algorithm that ''generates'' strings in the language.
7: ...r in effect formally describes a [[parser]] for a language.
9: ..., an analytic grammar describes how to ''read'' a language, whereas a generative grammar describes how to ''...

Formal Hall (1050 bytes)
1: ...in]]. Different colleges have varying policies on Formal Hall. Some hold them several times a week, while ...
3: ...of pennying is long established in most Cambridge formal halls. This, quite simply, involves someone placi...

Formal social control (198 bytes)
1: ...ciety abides by. See [[law enforcement]] and [[informal social control]].

Formal thought disorder (4567 bytes)
1: In [[psychiatry]], '''thought disorder''' or '''formal thought disorder''' is a term used to describe a ...
51: Speech excessively stilted and formal. e.g. "The attorney comported himself indecorousl...
73: ...6551&dopt=Abstract Andreasen NC. (1979)] Thought, language, and communication disorders. I. Clinical assessm...

Formal concept analysis (2669 bytes)
1: '''Formal concept analysis''' is a method of [[data analysi...
10: == Formal presentation ==
33: ...BS/gst/FBA03.shtml]: a set of lectures describing formal concept analysis for computer scientists
34: * [http://www.fcahome.org.uk/ A Formal Concept Analysis Homepage]

Formal equivalence checking (3337 bytes)
1: ...tal circuit|digital]] [[integrated circuit]]s, to formally prove that two representations of a circuit [[d...
3: ...s usually described with a [[hardware description language]], such as [[Verilog]] or [[VHDL]]. This descript...
13: ...oblem that is studied under the broader area of [[formal verification]].
15: ...vely rare compared to the first two. Typically, a formal equivalence checking tool will also indicate with...

Formal group law (2178 bytes)
1: ...''formal group law''' is (roughly speaking) the [[formal power series]] analogue of a [[Lie group]]. Given...
5: ...ition, of a '''formal group law''' (often just '''formal group''') in ''n'' variables.
7: The nature of a 'formal group' is not therefore as a group in the set-the...
15: ...potent]]. There is an abstract sense in which the formal group here is an [[inverse limit]] of [[group sch...
17: ...theory]] needed the ''universal'' one-dimensional formal group over '''Z''', the existence of which had be...

Formal power series (16638 bytes)
3: In [[mathematics]], '''formal power series''' are devices that make it possible...
5: ...a)|ring]] ''R''. We want to define the '''ring of formal power series over <em>R</em> in the variable <em>...
7: === Formal construction ===
36: This topological ring is the ring of formal power series over ''R'' and is denoted by ''R''<n...
60: ...e ideal generated by ''X'' (which consists of all formal power series whose zeroth coefficient is zero).

Essive-formal case (217 bytes)
3: ... this case combines the [[Essive case]] and the [[Formal case]], and it can express the position, task, st...

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