A former is a structural member of an aircraft fuselage,
The Former-and-Longeron technique was adopted from boat construction (also called stations and stringers),
They are also found in the cores of potentiometers in which the resistive material is wrapped round.
The former is a good idea but the latter is not.
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Used in the Middle of Sentence
Alex (not on) Song as ITV pundit in Berlin -- West Ham's former Barcelona player endured a tough evening in ITV's Champions League final studio. [1]
He was lured back by Libell Geddes, owner of the The Fifth supperclub/grill, to replace former GM Christian Huot, who is following his new bride to Miami.
Asturia's former margraviate Castilia became a realm itself, annexed all Asturia in 1037 and turned it into a titular principality as Castilia's (and later Spain's) royal primogeniture in 1388
Used in the Ending of Sentence
A form of these lissoneoids somewhat resemble the trochoidal forms, the latter being more hollow than the former.
Meaning of former for the defined word.
Grammatically, this word "former" is an adjective, more specifically, an uncomparable adjective. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun.