composition
IPA: kɑmpʌzˈɪʃʌn
noun
- The act of putting together; assembly.
- A mixture or compound; the result of composing.
- The proportion of different parts to make a whole.
- The general makeup of a thing or person.
- (obsolete) An agreement or treaty used to settle differences; later especially, an agreement to stop hostilities; a truce.
- (obsolete) A payment of money in order to clear a liability or obligation; a settling or fine.
- (Singapore, law) A payment of fine in order to settle a (usually minor) criminal charge.
- (law) an agreement or compromise by which a creditor or group of creditors accepts partial payment from a debtor.
- An essay.
- (linguistics) The formation of compound words from separate words.
- A work of music, literature or art.
- (printing) Typesetting.
- (mathematics) Applying a function to the result of another.
- (physics) The compounding of two velocities or forces into a single equivalent velocity or force.
- (obsolete) Consistency; accord; congruity.
- Synthesis as opposed to analysis.
- (painting, photography) The arrangement and flow of elements in a picture.
- (object-oriented programming) Way to combine simple objects or data types into more complex ones.
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Examples of "composition" in Sentences
- One may also hear synthetic lumber go by the term composition decking.
- The title composition, 80/81, was something new for Metheny at that time.
- The title composition is a spiritual nod to the late keyboardist and composer
- In drawing, the term composition means the way the components If negative spaces are given equal of a d r a w i n g are arranged by the artist.
- Twenty-five years ago, Pärt's famed instrumental work Tabula Rasa was the title composition of the first release in ECM's much-praised New Series.
- That's the reason why goat's milk, whose casein composition is very different from that of cow's milk, is sometimes better tolerated by those who are allergic.
- I think it's by far a superior composition, it being rich with harmonies and vocal layers showcasing C-ute's vocal range and * feel* which are for the most part absent in "Bye Bye Bye!" it being a much more straight forward composition~ ... although to fault the title track as it is was it is for a reason.
- The assumption made by the colonial ethnographer about their societies having been "matriarchal" in composition is potentially misleading because matrilineality, while perhaps giving the preponderance of importance for purposes of inheritance to the female line, is not necessarily commensurate with female governance or domination.
- "It is recorded that the first persons who practised this species of composition [Footnote: The _composition_ here mentioned consisted of three parts, The _first_ regarded the structure; that is, the _connection_ of our words, and required that the last syllable of every preceding, and the first of every succeeding word should be so aptly united as to produce an agreeable sound; which was effected by avoiding a collision of vowels or of inamicable consonants.
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