free-form
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free-form (comparative more free-form, superlative most free-form)
- Having an unconventional, variable or asymmetric form.
- 1996 April 15, Amy Cortese, Amy Barrett, Paul Eng, and Linda Himelstein, “The Online World of Steve Case”, in BusinessWeek[1]:
- This annual March gathering of the digital elite, held at a resort near Tucson, is a combination of a three-day free-form think tank and schmooze-athon where the latest trends are dissected and, in the corridors or on the golf course, deals are hatched.
- (roleplaying games) Referring to a roleplaying game which does not use a formal system of rules.
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having an unconventional form
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free-form (plural free-forms)
- A free-form shape or artwork.
- 2014, Laura Reiter, Beginner's Guide to Abstract Art:
- The background shapes are also called 'negative' shapes and are found between the positive shapes – in this case, the rectangles, triangles, circles and freeforms.