Form

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

Form may also refer to:

• 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, or similarly for an athlete
• Form (nest), a shallow depression or flattened nest of grass used by a hare
• 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
• Criminal record, slang

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 multilinear 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

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 (symbolic manipulation system), a program for symbolic computations
• Form (computer virus), the most common computer virus of the 1990s
• Oracle Forms, a Rapid Application Development environment for developing database applications
• Windows Forms, the graphical API within the Microsoft .NET Framework for access to native Microsoft Windows interface elements
• XForms, an XML format for the specification of user interfaces, specifically web forms

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

Philosophy

• Substantial form, asserts that ideas organize matter and make it intelligible
• Theory of Forms, asserts that ideas possess the highest and most fundamental kind of reality
• Value-form, an approach to understanding the origins of commodity trade and the formation of markets
• Argument form, aka Logical form or Test form - replacing the different words, or sentences, that make up the argument with letters, along the lines of algebra; the letters represent logical variables

Other

• First-order reliability method, a semi-probabilistic reliability analysis method devised to evaluate the reliability of a system
• Form, the relation a word has to a lexeme
• Formwork, a mould used for concrete construction
• Isoform, several different forms of the same protein
• Sixth form, an English term for the final two years of secondary school
• The Forms (band), an American indie rock band

See also

• FORM (disambiguation)
• Formation (disambiguation)
• Formula (disambiguation)
• Conformity (disambiguation)
• Deformation (disambiguation)
• Inform (disambiguation)
• Reform (disambiguation)
• All pages beginning with "Form"
• All pages with titles containing "Form"