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This article is about the meanings of the word form connected with shape or structure. For other meanings, see Form (disambiguation) . ''Form'' ( Lat. ''forma'' Eng. ''mould''), refers to the external Three-dimensional outline, appearance or configuration of some thing - in contrast to the matter or content or substance of which it is composed (compare with Shape ). The word form, is a phenomenon: Thus a (octavo, quarto, etc.) or of a Cigarette . The word ''form'' is also applied to certain definite objects: in printing a body of type secured in a chase for printing at one impression (''form'' or ''forme''); a bench without a back, such as is used in schools (perhaps to be compared with the French ''s'asseoir en forme'', to sit in a row); a mould or shape on or in which an object is manufactured; the lair or nest of a hare. From its use in the sense of regulated order comes the application of the term to a class in a school ('' Sixth Form '', ''fifth form'', etc.); this sense has been explained without sufficient ground as due to the idea of all children in the same class sitting on a single form (bench). ''Form'' Form can also be used to denote a level of preparedness, recent proficiency or success e.g. 'The racehorse's form has been poor of late' to describe a horse's recent racing performance rather than its historic physical form or 'Hossam Ghaly hopes to continue his recent run of good form in the Tottenham Hotspur 1st XI'. This particular meaning of the word 'form' highlights a peculiar unity - harmonious antecedent physical and mental form precipitates fine form in terms of resultant performance as a consequence. Determinism ensures the instantiation of one mode of form necessitates its expression in another mode. Whether this unity is a necessary property of a physically determined world or is simply a synthetic unity of language is open to debate. ''Form'' See Also: form (document) Form also refers to a document that is commonly used to request information and data. Forms are available in printed or electronic format, the latter being the most versatile as it enables the user to type the requested information using a computer keyboard and allows them to easily distribute the content contained within using the Internet and email. FORM IN PHILOSOPHY The word has had various usages in for the Aristotelian '' Formal Cause ''). The perfection of the form of a thing is its Entelechy in virtue of which it attains its fullest realization of function (De anima, ii. 2). Thus the entelechy of the Body is the Soul . The origin of the differentiation process is to be sought in a ''prime mover'', i.e. pure form entirely separate from all matter, eternal, unchangeable, operating not by its own activity but by the impulse which its own absolute existence excites in matter. The Aristotelian conception of form was nominally, though perhaps in most cases unintelligently, adopted by the Scholastics, to whom, however, its origin in the observation of the physical universe was an entirely foreign idea. The most remarkable adaptation is probably that of ; Kant ). These forms are not obtained by Abstraction from sensible data, nor are they strictly speaking Innate : they are obtained ''by the very action of the mind from the co-ordination of its sensation''. SEE ALSO REFERENCES
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