Form (disambiguation)

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Form may mean:

  • Form, the shape, appearance, or configuration, of an object.
  • Form (concrete), a mold used for concrete construction.
  • Form (document), a document (printed or electronic) with spaces in which to write or enter data.
  • Form (biology), a taxonomic subdivision of a species.
  • Form (religion), an academic term for prescriptions or norms on religious practice.
  • Form (horse racing), a record of a racehorse's performance.
  • The terms "Good Form" or "Bad Form", while originally applied to race horses, can also be used to refer to polite or impolite social behaviour.
  • Musical form, a generic type of composition or the structure of a particular piece.
  • Someone named Form from the List of people by name.
  • "Form", an abbreviation of formulary used in computer science.

Mathematics

  • Algebraic form, which generalises quadratic forms to degrees 3 and more, also known as quantics.
  • Bilinear form, on a vector space V over a field F is a mapping V × VF which is a linear transformation in both arguments.
  • Multilinear form, a map of the type <math>f: V^N \to K</math>, where V is a vector space over the field K, that is separately linear in each its N variables.
  • Differential form, a mathematical concept in the fields of multivariate calculus, differential topology and tensors.
  • Quadratic form, a homogeneous polynomial of degree two in a number of variables.
  • Modular form, a (complex) analytic function on the upper half plane satisfying a certain kind of functional equation and growth condition.
  • Indeterminate form, a mathematical expression without a definite meaning.

See also

  • XForms, an XML format for the specification of user interfaces, specifically web forms.


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