formal description

collocation in English

meaningsofformalanddescription

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formal
adjective
uk
/ˈfɔː.məl/us
/ˈfɔːr.məl/
public ...
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description
noun[C or U]
uk
/dɪˈskrɪp.ʃən/us
/dɪˈskrɪp.ʃən/
something that tells you what something or someone ...
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(Definition offormalanddescriptionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Given the title of the book, a moreformaldescriptionof the tree would not have been out of place.
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Here is theformaldescriptionfor rigour's sake.
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In this section and the next, we turn our attention to providing a moreformaldescriptionof the underlying type system.
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From the operational semantics, aformaldescriptionof the monitor, and a program, they derive an instrumented executable file that performs the specified monitoring activity.
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Then our goal is now to get aformaldescriptionof the term q*.
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We provide a unifyingformaldescriptionof animals' performances and examine the optimality of their decisional strategies.
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We give below aformaldescriptionof the algorithms we consider.
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Rather, they maintain, he was after aformaldescriptionof behavior.
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Often, the issue is excluded from theformaldescriptionand a convenient assumption is made.
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We start with aformaldescriptionof a network of active nodes.
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Secondly it provides a sense of context which assists a reader in correctly interpreting the consequences of a givenformaldescription.
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The point of departure is graph reduction, and a solid operational understanding of lazy languages, rather than aformaldescription.
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To understand these differences we turn to aformaldescription.
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For aformaldescriptionof the algorithm and a correctness proof see section 4.4.5 where a more general inclusion check algorithm is presented.
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For aformaldescriptionof the semi-autonomous monitoring, see ref. 17.
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The scenario constitutes the technical-level input, and the task specification is aformaldescription of the criteria imposed upon the model to be composed.
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Given theformaldescriptionof our source language, we may express correctness of source-to-source transformations via operational equivalence.
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Section 3 presents aformaldescriptionof our abstract machine, and a compiler from the object calculus to instructions for the abstract machine.
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