Composition

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composition
n. make-up, constitution; something which has been composed (i.e. music); essay


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Composition
Composition can refer to:Composition (logical fallacy), a fallacy of ambiguation in which one assumes that a whole has a property solely because its various parts have that propertyComposition (visual arts), the plan, placement or arrangement of the elements of art in a workComposition (language), in literature, oratory, and rhetoric, producing a work of spoken tradition or written literatureComposition (number theory), a way of writing a positive integer as a sum of positive integersComposition (natural science), the proportion and combination of certain elements to form a substancein computer scienceObject composition, combining simpler data types into more complex data types, or function calls into calling functionsFunction composition (computer science), an act or mechanism to combine simple functions to build more complicated onesin mathematicsFunction composition, an operation that takes functions and gives a single function as the resultRelation composition, an operation that takes relations and gives a single relation as the resultMusical composition, an original piece of musicComposition studies, the professional field of writing instructionMIDI composition
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Composition
Composition Vox populi 1. That of which a thing is composed or formed. See Base composition 2. La-la-la-la-la-la etc, á la Mozart [more]Composition - Community and Resources

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composition
Noun
1. a mixture of ingredients
(hypernym) mixture
(hyponym) paste
2. the way in which someone or something is composed
(synonym) constitution, makeup
(hypernym) property
(hyponym) structure
3. 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"
(synonym) composing
(hypernym) placement, arrangement
4. a musical work that has been created; "the composition is written in four movements"
(synonym) musical composition, opus, piece, piece of music
(hypernym) music
(hyponym) morceau
(part-meronym) finale, coda
(derivation) compose, write
5. musical creation
(synonym) composing
(hypernym) creating by mental acts
(hyponym) arrangement, arranging, transcription
(derivation) compose, write
6. the act of creating written works; "writing was a form of therapy for him"; "it was a matter of disputed authorship"
(synonym) writing, authorship, penning
(hypernym) verbal creation
(hyponym) drafting
(derivation) write, compose, pen, indite
(class) write, compose, pen, indite
7. art and technique of printing with movable type
(synonym) typography
(hypernym) printing, printing process
8. an essay (especially one written as an assignment); "he got an A on his composition"
(synonym) paper, report, theme
(hypernym) essay
(hyponym) term paper
9. something that is created by arranging several things to form a unified whole; "he envied the composition of their faculty"
(hypernym) creation
(hyponym) paste-up


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composition (f)
n. composition; test, examination; make up, setting up; composing, typesetting

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