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

People

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Arts, entertainment, and media

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Computing and technology

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  • 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.

Martial arts

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  • 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

Mathematics

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  • 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 × VF 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 VNF
  • Quadratic form, a homogeneous polynomial of degree two in a number of variables

Philosophy

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  • 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

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Sports

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  • 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

Other uses

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  • 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

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