compositional
IPA: kɑmpʌzˈɪʃʌnʌɫ
adjective
- Of or pertaining to composition.
- (linguistics) Being the sum of its parts.
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Examples of "compositional" in Sentences
- It would have been a perfect way to explore the medium, to use blog serialization as a kind of compositional pallete to write the novel.
- Paired with a ton of angst, this is the kind of compositional precision that can only be attained by hiding away in a random shack in Canada.
- It's almost a kind of compositional sleight-of-hand, as Sting uses catchy melodies and pop-savvy arrangements to distract our attention away from just how crafty these songs are.
- A neo-davidsonian analysis that posits an event variable in the syntactic structure is a step towards the right kind of compositional, internalist semantics that linguistics should aspire for today.
- The Clogs are a four-person, part-time improvisational and part-time compositional from the US and the land down under, and while their instrumentation is somewhat folk in nature, their sound is very progressive.
- One sometimes says that Tarski's definition of satisfaction is compositional, meaning that the class of assignments which satisfy a compound formula F is determined solely by (1) the syntactic rule used to construct F from its immediate constituents and (2) the classes of assignments that satisfy these immediate constituents.
- I thus associate the compact world of the admirable hill-top, the world of a predominant golden-brown, with a general invocation of sensibility and fancy, and think of myself as going forth into the lingering light of summer evenings all attuned to intensity of the idea of compositional beauty, or in other words, freely speaking, to the question of colour, to intensity of picture.
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