formatage
French
Etymology
From formater + -age.
Pronunciation
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Noun
formatage m (plural formatages)
- (computing) the act of formatting
- (derogatory) the act of restraining someone in a certain fixed way/manner of thought/thinking (cf. set in one's ways)
Further reading
- “formatage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.