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Noun
/ˌkämpəˈziSHən/,
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compositions, plural;
  1. The nature of something's ingredients or constituents; the way in which a whole or mixture is made up
    • - the social composition of villages
  2. The action of putting things together; formation or construction
    • - the composition of a new government was announced
  3. A thing composed of various elements
    • - a theory is a composition of interrelated facts
  4. Mental constitution; character
    • - persons who have a touch of madness in their composition
  5. A compound artificial substance, esp. one serving the purpose of a natural one
    • - composition flooring
  6. The formation of words into a compound word

  7. The successive application of functions to a variable, the value of the first function being the argument of the second, and so on
    • - composition of functions, when defined, is associative
  8. The process of finding the resultant of a number of forces

  9. A work of music, literature, or art
    • - Chopin's most romantic compositions
  10. The action or art of producing such a work
    • - the technical aspects of composition
  11. An essay, esp. one written by a school or college student

  12. The artistic arrangement of the parts of a picture
    • - spoiling the composition of many of the pictures
  13. The preparing of text for printing by setting up the characters in order

  14. A legal agreement to pay an amount of money in lieu of a larger debt or other obligation

  15. An amount of money paid in this way

  1. (composition) the spatial property resulting from the arrangement of parts in relation to each other and to the whole; "harmonious composition is essential in a serious work of art"
  2. (composition) constitution: the way in which someone or something is composed
  3. (composition) a mixture of ingredients
  4. musical composition: a musical work that has been created; "the composition is written in four movements"
  5. (composition) composing: musical creation
  6. (composition) writing: the act of creating written works; "writing was a form of therapy for him"; "it was a matter of disputed authorship"
  7. Compositions is the fourth album by the American R&B/soul singer Anita Baker. The album peaked at #5 on Billboard 200 and was certified platinum in 1990, making it Baker's third platinum selling album. ...
  8. (Composition (dance)) The term dance composition is used to describe the practice and teaching of choreography and the navigation or connection of choreographic structures.
  9. (Composition (language)) The term composition(from Latin com-"with" and ponere"to place"), in written language, refers to the collective body of important features established by the author in their creation of literature. ...
  10. (Composition (logical fallacy)) A fallacy of composition arises when one infers that something is true of the whole from the fact that it is true of some part of the whole (or even of every proper part). ...
  11. (Composition (mathematics)) In mathematics, function composition is the application of one function to the results of another. For instance, the functions and can be composed by computing the output of g when it has an argument of f(x) instead of x. ...
  12. (Composition (number theory)) In mathematics, a composition of an integer n is a way of writing n as the sum of a sequence of (strictly) positive integers. ...
  13. (composition) The combining of different parts to make a whole. [from 14th c.]; The general makeup of something. [from 14th c.]; An agreement or treaty used to settle differences; later especially, an agreement to stop hostilities; a truce. [14th-19th c. ...
  14. (Composition) The assembly of characters into words, lines and paragraphs of text or body matter for reproduction by printing.
  15. (Composition) a mixture of pyrotechnic chemicals which contains a fuel, an oxidizer, and various other chemicals to produce colours and effects.
  16. (composition) A form of aggregation association with strong ownership and coincident lifetime as part of the whole. Parts with non-fixed multiplicity may be created after the composite itself, but once created they live and die with it; that is, they share lifetimes. ...
  17. (Composition) The bringing together of parts or elements to form a whole; the structure, organization, or total form of a work of art.
  18. (Composition) The pleasing arrangement of the elements within a scene-the main subject, the foreground and background, and supporting subjects.
  19. (Composition) The structure of a gymnastics routine. Each individual movement or skill is a building block; the arrangement of the moves in the exercise is called the composition of the routine.
  20. (Composition) The process of adjusting framing, camera position and/or focal length to make the subject a visually pleasing photograph.
  21. (Composition) the process of setting type and arranging it on the page.
  22. (Composition) An arrangement and/or structure of all the elements which achieves a unified whole..... More info
  23. (Composition) The different components, in terms of the audience, that makes up a media's universe. For example ‘30.36% of all of ‘a cool magazine’s’ readers are within my target audience’.
  24. (Composition) (1) In typography, the assembly of typographic elements, such as words and paragraphs, into pages ready for printing. (2) In graphic design, the arrangement of type, graphics and other elements on the page.
  25. (Composition) The overall design of a finished piece containing balance of color and linear flow.