The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word FORMULAE
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What does FORMULAE mean?
FORMULAE noun- Any mathematical rule expressed symbolically.
- A symbolic expression of the structure of a compound.
- A plan or method for dealing with a problem or for achieving a result.
- A formulation; a prescription; a mixture or solution made in a prescribed manner; the identity and quantities of ingredients of such a mixture.
- A formal statement of doctrine, as in religion.
- A syntactic expression of a proposition, built up from quantifiers, logical connectives, variables, relation and operation symbols, and, depending on the type of logic, possibly other operators such as modal, temporal, deontic or epistemic ones.
- A manufactured food simulating human breast milk, designed to be fed to babies and infants under 12 months of age.