{"schema":"https://ver.cy/schemas/card/1.0.0","id":"vr.tr.formation","code":"thing-formation","url":"https://ver.cy/models/thing/formation/","name":"formation","alternateNames":["military formation","open order","close order","extended order","sick call","sick parade","backfield","secondary","flank","wing","rear"],"kind":"thing","status":"published","version":"0.2.0-wave.3","language":"en","classifiers":{"family":"Thing Registry","category":"Society, people and institutions","entryKind":"noun.group","plane":"SOC","domain":["SOC.ORG"],"industry":[],"navPath":"","tags":[],"facets":{"substance":"social","origin":"conceptual","agency":"inert","mobility":"not-applicable","scale":"not-applicable","affordances":["observable"]}},"whatItIs":"An arrangement of people or things acting as a unit, in the military sense the ordered disposition of troops or units for drill, movement or combat, from close order and open order to extended order, and by extension organisational units and assemblies such 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