Usually means: Reason for an object's form.
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  1. formal cause: Merriam-Webster
  2. formal cause: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. formal cause: Wordnik
  4. formal cause: Wiktionary
  5. Formal cause, formal cause: Dictionary.com
  6. Formal cause: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. formal cause: FreeDictionary.org
  8. Formal cause: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. formal cause: Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (formal cause)

noun:  (philosophy, natural science) The design, pattern, or pure concept of a thing, which gives form or structure to its matter.

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