Form

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Form refers to the shape, visual appearance, or configuration of an object.

Form may also refer to:

• Form, a shallow depression or flattened nest of grass used by a hare
• Form (document), a document (printed or electronic) with spaces in which to write or enter data
• Form (education), a class, set or group of students
• Form (exercise), a proper way of performing an exercise
• Form (horse racing), a record of a racehorse's performance
• Form (religion), an academic term for prescriptions or norms on religious practice
• Musical form, a generic type of composition or the structure of a particular piece
• FORM, an American architecture magazine

Biology:

• Form (botany), a formal taxon at a rank lower than species
• Form (zoology), informal taxa used sometimes in zoology

Computing:

• Form (web), 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 (computer virus), the most common computer virus of the 1990s
• Oracle Forms, a Rapid Application Development environment for developing database applications
• Windows Forms
• XForms, an XML format for the specification of user interfaces, specifically web forms
• Trapcode Form, a motion graphic editing plug-in from Red Giant Software

Martial arts:

• 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:

• 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 × V → F that is linear in both arguments
• Differential form, a concept from differential topology that combines multi linear forms and smooth functions
• 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 V^N → F
• Quadratic form, a homogeneous polynomial of degree two in a number of variables

Philosophy:

• Substantial form
• Theory of Forms
• Value-form (Marxism), an approach to understanding the origins of commodity trade and the formation of markets.

[edit] See also

• Formwork, a mould used for concrete construction
• Sixth form, an English term for the final two years of secondary school
• The Forms (band), an American indie rock band

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