The act, process, or result of formulating or reducing to a formula.(noun)
A medicinal preparation(noun)
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Use "formulation" in a sentence
"Actually, read in this light, the formulation is as demystified as it is idealized, since it is Shelley's distinctive fate to have learned her first words literally through the signifier of death, both the "M-A-R-Y" of"
"Again, what I find most telling about this formulation is that denying students access to theory would impede their ability "to have a meaningful understanding of modern literary scholarship" (emphasis mine)."
"But that formulation is simplistic and unhelpful to any intellectual honest person engaged in interpretation of a difficulty topic."