Form may mean:

• Form, the shape, appearance, or configuration, of an object.
• Form (furniture), a long seat or bench without a back.
• Form (education), a class, set or group of students.
• Form (concrete), a mold used for concrete construction.
• Form (document), a document (printed or electronic) with spaces in which to write or enter data.
• Form (web), a document form used on a web page to, typically, submit user data to a server.
• The Platonic forms: see Form
• Form (religion), an academic term for prescriptions or norms on religious practice.
• Form (horse racing), a record of a racehorse's performance.
• Form (botany), a taxon at a rank lower than species.
• Forms in zoological literature, explains some zoology terms which are not official.
• Musical form, a generic type of composition or the structure of a particular piece.
• Kata (martial arts) (型 or 形), the detailed pattern of defense-and-attack.
  • Taeguk (Taekwondo) (형), the "forms" used to create a foundation for the teaching of Taekwondo.

In mathematics

• Quadratic form, a homogeneous polynomial of degree two in a number of variables.
• Algebraic form, which generalises quadratic forms to degrees 3 and more, also known as quantics.
• Bilinear form, on a vector space V over a field F is a mapping V × V → F that is linear in both arguments.
• Multilinear form, which generalises bilinear forms to mappings V^N → F.
• Differential form, a concept from differential topology that combines multilinear forms and smooth functions.
• Modular form, a (complex) analytic function on the upper half plane satisfying a certain kind of functional equation and growth condition.
• Indeterminate form, an algebraic expression that cannot be used to evaluate a limit.

See also

• XForms, an XML format for the specification of user interfaces, specifically web forms.
• Sixth form, a British term for the final two years of secondary school.

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