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Formative
Formative Form"a*tive, n. (Gram.)
(a) That which serves merely to give form, and is no part
of the radical, as the prefix or the termination of a
word.
(b) A word formed in accordance with some rule or usage,
as from a root.
Formative
Formative Form"a*tive, a. [Cf. F. formatif.]
1. Giving form; having the power of giving form; plastic; as,
the formative arts.
The meanest plant can not be raised without seed, by
any formative residing in the soil. --Bentley.
2. (Gram.) Serving to form; derivative; not radical; as, a
termination merely formative.
3. (Biol.) Capable of growth and development; germinal; as,
living or formative matter.
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Formative ****essment,
formative evaluation,
formative feedback, or ****essment for learning,
including diagnostic testing, is a
range of
formal and informal...
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include a
Formative Period or
Formative stage etc. It is
often sub-divided, for
example into "Early", "Middle" and "Late" stages. The
Formative is the third...
- at
around age 9 or 10. Together,
early and
middle childhood are
called formative years. In this
middle period,
children develop socially and mentally....
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Formative contexts are the
institutional and
imaginative arrangements that
shape a society's
conflicts and resolutions. They are the
structures that limit...
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Formative epistemology is a
collection of
philosophic views concerned with the
theory of
knowledge that
emphasize the role of
natural scientific methods...
- In the
Hungarian language the essive-formal case or
formative case can be
viewed as
combining an
essive case and a
formal case, and it can
express the...
- meaning. In Hebrew, the
letters that form
those prefixes are
called "
formative letters" (Hebrew: אוֹתִיּוֹת הַשִּׁמּוּשׁ,
Otiyot HaShimush).
Eleven of...
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neutral or even
positively disposed towards religion within this genre.
Formative works contributing to the
emergence of the
genre include Jacek Dukaj's...
- Parke-Davis
pharmacology research lab in London, an
experience he
described as
formative due to the
required destruction of lab animals,
which he
found deeply...
