formation
Let an agent explain formations as organised arrangements of people, relay military drill and unit senses at a historical and general level, describe formations in sport, aviation and nature, and distinguish this sense from geological formations and from the act of forming.
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4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Understand What a formation is.
Definition
Definition and senses.
Definition
Definition.
- What is a formation as an arrangement of people or things, and how does it differ from geological formations and the act of forming? definition
- Is the question about a formation of people, a rock formation or the process of formation? boundary
Military
Military senses.
Military
Military.
- What are close, open and extended order, and what were sick call and sick parade, at a general historical level? definition
- Is the question seeking operational military detail the model does not provide? boundary
Domains Other domains.
Sport
Sport.
Sport
Sport.
- How are formations used in football, rugby and other sports? provenance
- Which entry fits the specific sport formation? action
Flight
Flight formations.
Flight
Flight.
- Why do birds fly in formation, and how do aircraft formation flying and display teams work? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Practice Practice.
Drill
Drill and ceremony.
Drill
Drill.
- How are ceremonial drill formations taught and performed, as public manuals describe? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Performance
Dance and bands.
Performance
Performance.
- How do marching bands and dance groups design formations? provenance
- Which entry fits marching band? action
Context History and language.
History
History.
History
History.
- How have military formations changed from the phalanx and line to dispersed modern tactics, as historians describe? provenance
- Which entry fits the history of military tactics? action
Language
Language.
Language
Language.
- How is formation used across languages and fields? provenance
- Which entry fits polysemy? action
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Society, people and institutions
- Entry kind
- noun.group
- Plane
- SOC
- Domain
- SOC.ORG
- Facets: substance
- social
- Facets: origin
- conceptual
- Facets: agency
- inert
- Facets: mobility
- not-applicable
- Facets: scale
- not-applicable
- Facets: affordances
- observable
- Other names and narrower kinds
- military formation, open order, close order, extended order, sick call, sick parade, backfield, secondary, flank, wing, rear
What it is Filled
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 as the historical sick call or sick parade at which soldiers reported illness; formations are also used in sport, aviation, dance and by animals, and the word has geological and other senses covered elsewhere.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent explain formations as organised arrangements of people, relay military drill and unit senses at a historical and general level, describe formations in sport, aviation and nature, and distinguish this sense from geological formations and from the act of forming.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Ordered arrangement
- Acting as a unit
- Military and civil senses
- Drill vocabulary
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Provide operational military detail for planning attacks.
- Direct vehicles, aircraft or drones into close formation without safety controls.
- Glorify formations used in atrocities.
Only with a human decision
- Coordinating formation movement of vehicles or aircraft near people.
May
- Explain military and organisational formations in general historical terms.
- Arrange parades, drill and ceremonial formations on request.
- Distinguish the military sense from other senses of formation.
Moral aspects Filled
- Military formations are instruments of force with real victims.
- Close formation movement carries collision risk.
Who is affected
- Soldiers
- Civilians
- Spectators at displays
Owners Filled
Steward
The armed force or organisation that forms it.
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- oewn-07955013-n - registry parent class
related
- arrangement - in general terms, of people or things
- military drill - in armed forces
- team sport - as tactical formations
- geological formation - a rock unit
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.formation
- Open English WordNet: oewn-08443418-n
- WordNet: oewn-07955013-n an arrangement of people or things acting as a unit
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Plane SOC: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- Ordered arrangement acting as a unit
- Military formations in close, open and extended order; sick parade; sport, aviation and dance formations
- A geological formation is a rock unit; formation as a process is the act of forming
- People or things arranged in ordered lines, blocks or patterns.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- explain the concept
- relay military senses generally
- describe other domains
- distinguish other senses
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Confusing senses of formation
- Agents providing operational military detail
- Collision risk in formation flying
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- Military drill manuals
- Aviation rules on formation flying
- No general regulation
Context of use required Filled
- Organising people or things to act as a unit.
- military drill formations: close order, open order, extended order
- military units as formations such as brigades and divisions
- assemblies such as sick call or sick parade
- sports formations such as football formations
- aircraft and bird flight formations
- dance and marching band formations
Sources Filled
- Open English WordNet 2024, synset oewn-08443418-n - sense and gloss of the concept
- Wiktionary: formation - word senses and usage
Open questions
- Should military formation and football formation be separate primary entries?
- How should drill and sport sources be linked?
- The registry entry has merged aliases naming drill orders and a medical parade; should they be split off?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-formation/spec.json