Form

Form is the shape, visual appearance, or configuration of an object. In a wider sense, the form is the way something happens.

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 (religion), an academic term for prescriptions or norms on religious practice
 * Form, a shallow depression or flattened nest of grass used by a hare
 * Form, or rap sheet, slang for a criminal record

People

 * Andrew Form, American film producer
 * Fluent Form, Australian rapper and hip hop musician

Arts, entertainment, and media

 * Form (arts organisation), a Western Australian arts organisation
 * Form (visual art), a three-dimensional geometrical figure; one of the seven elements of art
 * Poetic form, a set of structural rules and patterns to which a poem may adhere
 * Musical form, a generic type of composition or the structure of a particular piece
 * The Forms (band), an American indie rock band

Computing and technology

 * Form (computer virus), the most common computer virus of the 1990s
 * Form (HTML), 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
 * Google Forms, cloud-based survey software
 * 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
 * Form Energy, an American energy storage startup company. It is focused on utility-scale iron-air batteries.

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

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
 * First-order reliability method, a semi-probabilistic reliability analysis method devised to evaluate the reliability of a system
 * 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 VN → F
 * Quadratic form, a homogeneous polynomial of degree two in a number of variables

Philosophy

 * Argument form, a.k.a. 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
 * Intelligible form, a substantial form as it is apprehended by the intellect
 * 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

Science

 * Form (botany), a formal taxon at a rank lower than species
 * Form (zoology), informal taxa used sometimes in zoology
 * Form, object of study of Morphology
 * "-form", a term used in science to describe large groups, often used in taxonomy
 * Isoform, several different forms of the same protein

Sports

 * Form (exercise), a proper way of performing an exercise
 * Form (horse racing), or racing form, a record of a racehorse's performance
 * Kata, a choreographed pattern of martial arts movements made to be practised alone

Other uses

 * Form (cigarette), a Finnish cigarette brand
 * Form, a backless bench formerly used for seating in dining halls, school rooms and courtrooms
 * Form, the relation a word has to a lexeme
 * Formwork, a mold used for concrete construction