Formal Quebec French uses essentially the same orthography and grammar as Standard French, with few exceptions, and exhibits moderate lexical differences.

Formal differences between Peninsular and American Spanish are remarkably few, and someone who has learned the dialect of one area will have no difficulties using reasonably formal speech in the other ; however, pronunciation does vary, as well as grammar and vocabulary.

Formal written standards remain grammatically close to each other, despite some minor syntactic differences.

* American and British English differences: Formal vs. notional agreement

Cross-cultural differences found in the Conservation Task, ( and in Formal Operational tasks, among others ) led Piaget ( 1972 ) to revise his claim of universal stages, allowing for contextual variability, depending on experience in particular domains.

Formal law determines in which cases the Supreme Court may reverse judgments of lower courts ( cassation ) for violation of the law ( Subarticle 2 ).

The usual grace given before Formal Hall is Benedictus, Benedicat per Jesum Christum Dominum Nostrum ( Blessed is He and may he bless food through Jesus Christ Our Lord ) to which the assembly responds Amen.

Formal support groups may appear to be a modern phenomenon, but they supplement traditional fraternal organizations such as Freemasonry in some respects, and may build on certain supportive functions ( formerly ) carried out in ( extended ) families.

Formal may also refer to:

Level 0: Formal specification may be undertaken and then a program developed from this informally.

Level 1: Formal development and formal verification may be used to produce a program in a more formal manner.

Formal methods may be used to give a description of the system to be developed, at whatever level ( s ) of detail desired.

Formal education environments, such as elementary and secondary schools, present opportunities for learners to acquire new knowledge and skills, and to achieve deep, domain-specific conceptual mastery which, through well-designed pedagogical guidance and academic study, may enhance future career readiness, civic engagement, and general well-being.

Formal teaching may be carried out by paid professionals.

Formal employee-testing is usually planned and announced well in advance, and may have titles, such as Levels Testing, Skills Evaluation, etc.

However, if the event is not relegated solely to the final year, it may be described as a Ball, School Formal, or simply Formal.

Formal resurrection of Barisan Alternatif may take place given the resounding victory which has resulted from the allocation pact between PAS, DAP and PKR.

Undergratuates are members of the Junior Common Room ( JCR ), although they may opt out of the common room if they wish, although if they do so they are not allowed to attend JCR events, such as the informal and formal ball, or Formal Hall.

Formal systems, like other syntactic entities may be defined without any interpretation given to it ( as being, for instance, a system of arithmetic ).

* Winter Formal, a formal dance that may be had instead of Sadie Hawkins dances from January through March

Formal Dewaniya's may be convened to discuss particular topics, sometimes with invited guest speakers.

Formal equivalence is often more goal than reality, if only because one language may contain a word for a concept which has no direct equivalent in another language.

Formal concepts important in spectral music include process, though " significantly different from those of minimalist music " in that all musical parameters may be affected.

Formal house dress may include additionally the biretta and ferraiuolo.

Formal schooling in a classroom setting has been the most common means of schooling throughout the world, especially in developed countries, since the early and mid 19th century.

Although the term " thought disorder " can refer to either type, in common parlance it refers most often to a disorder of thought " form " also known as Formal Thought Disorder.

Formal German makes common use of such participial relative clauses, which can become extremely long.

Formal greetings often begin with the universal As-salām ˤalaykom and the reply, Wa ˤalaykom as-salām, an exchange common to Muslims everywhere.

Formal flowerbeds are rare in older gardens, but more common in modern gardens.

# Formal with common policy-establishment by multiple countries of common monetary policy and issuing authority for their common currency

*" Formal Abstract Design Tools for Games " a notable early effort to develop a common language of game design methodology.

This state of affairs is most likely to be enforced at dinners known as Formal Halls where cheap wine is drunk and it is common for complete strangers to " Penny " each other.

Formal Culture Regions — an area inhabited by people who have one or more cultural traits in common, such as language, religion or system of livelihood.

Organizations intending to use Formal Consensus must establish the fundamental principles, values, and goals that all the members of the organization have in common.

A disadvantage to the Formal Consensus model is that participation requires a deep, common understanding of the underlying agreements which form the structure and process through which decisions are made.

The Hall itself features a hammer-beam roof, American walnut panelling, a gallery, rose windows, a fleche, and a bell originating from the old college in London which sounds before the College Grace is read at Formal dinner.

Formal recognition confers certain legal benefits and rights upon a group, as well as providing them with the satisfaction of recovering their separate identity as a tribe.

Formal power series are often used merely to represent the whole collection of their coefficients.

Formal law regulates changes in their boundaries, delegation is allowed ( Subarticle 2 ).

Those from EU member countries are entitled to free rooms and Commons ( the College's Formal Hall ), an annual stipend and exemption from fees for the duration of their scholarship, which lasts for fifteen terms.

There is also a special, extra Halfway Hall Formal for second-year students to mark the middle of their time as an undergraduate student at the College, and a Christmas Formal for all students at the end of every Michaelmas Term.

Other than " Oi to the World !," songs from the album are generally not part of the Vandals ' live setlist, except for their annual " Winter Formal " concert at which they generally perform the album in its entirety.

Formal prohibitions against facial hair are given to young men entering their two-year missionary service.

Formal recognition and commemoration of the Roma persecution by the Nazis is practically difficult due to the lack of significant collective memory and documentation of the Porajmos among the Roma, a consequence both of their oral traditions and their illiteracy, heightened by widespread poverty and discrimination that forces some Roma out of state schools.

The series initiated in July 2002 with the release of a live Vandals concert DVD recorded in December 2001 at their annual " Christmas Formal " concert.

Formal social communication is when an organization or a firm organize to communicate their plans or ideas in a casual way.

Formal kurtas are usually custom-made by South Asian tailors, who work with the fabric their customers bring them.

The college holds Formal Hall once a fortnight, in which students enter the dining hall in their academic gowns, which must remain worn until the end of silent grace.

Formal group laws over a ring R are often constructed by writing down their logarithm as a power series with coefficients in R ⊗ Q, and then proving that the coefficients of the corresponding formal group over R ⊗ Q actually lie in R. When working in positive characteristic, one typically replaces R with a mixed characteristic ring that has a surjection to R, such as the ring W ( R ) of Witt vectors, and reduces to R at the end.

The development of this theory began in 1993 and a representative early formulation is found in their online article Conceptual Integration and Formal Expression.

Along with most Bailey Colleges, St Chad's students wear their college gowns to Formal Hall, Matriculation, College Congregations and other academic or formal events.

This has been mechanized in Formal Methods like B-Method that allow to formally derive programs from their specifications.

* Formal metrics that focus on formalisation leading to the ease of manipulation, processing and reasoning about trust ; formal metrics can be further classified depending on their properties.

Errata for Formal Aspects of Computing ( 2006 ) 18: 495 – 517 and their consequences.

Formal elections have occurred in Canada since at least 1792, when both Upper Canada and Lower Canada had their first elections.

Formal recognition of their skills ( in England at least ) goes back to 1540, when the Fellowship of Surgeons ( who existed as a distinct profession, but still not " Doctors / Physicians " as they are thought of today ) merged with the Company of Barbers to form the Company of Barber-Surgeons.

They were introduced by Gerald J. Popek and Robert P. Goldberg in their 1974 article " Formal Requirements for Virtualizable Third Generation Architectures ".