MEANING
1. The expression of a statement or idea in different words or a different form.
2. The revision of a plan, proposal, or idea into a different form.
3. The alteration of a product’s ingredients or composition, or the resulting revised product.
Use it for
restating a claim to clarify its scope; comparing alternative formulations of an argument; showing how a change in wording changes an interpretationDistinguishes restating a claim from revising an underlying plan or a product’s composition. Academic functions: Argumentation.
Words that belong together
- a reformulation of the claim
- a precise reformulation
- reformulation of the question
On the page
The reformulation makes clear that the claim concerns average effects rather than every individual case.
A reformulation can improve clarity without providing new evidence.
The anomalous cases prompted a reformulation of the theory’s scope.
Policy reformulation changed the eligibility rules rather than merely the program’s name.
The regulation encouraged product reformulation rather than a change in package size alone.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- reformulation
Usage notes
Countable or uncountable: reformulation, reformulations. Re-formulation is a hyphenated variant. Register: formal. Commonness: moderately common (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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