Being in accord with established forms. / Official. / Relating to the form or structure of something. / Relating to formation. / Ceremonial or traditional.

(uncountable) The state of being formal. / Something said or done as a matter of form. / A customary ritual without new or unique meaning.

Strict adherence to a given form of conduct, practice etc. / (computing) One of several alternative computational paradigms for a given theory.

plural of formality

Quality of being formal.

plural of formalism

One who or that which formalizes.

plural of formalizer

(programming) An abstract representation, typically including a name and a type, of a parameter expected to be passed to a method or function.

(computer science) A precise mathematical description of a formal language, consisting of terminal symbols, nonterminal symbols, a nonterminal symbol serving as start symbol, and a set of production rules that control the expansion of nonterminal symbols into strings consisting of both terminal and nonterminal symbols.