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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Composition \Com`po*si"tion\, n. [F. composition, fr. L. compositio. See Composite.]
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The act or art of composing, or forming a whole or integral, by placing together and uniting different things, parts, or ingredients. In specific uses:
The invention or combination of the parts of any literary work or discourse, or of a work of art; as, the composition of a poem or a piece of music. ``The constant habit of elaborate composition.''
--Macaulay.(Fine Arts) The art or practice of so combining the different parts of a work of art as to produce a harmonious whole; also, a work of art considered as such. See 4, below.
The act of writing for practice in a language, as English, Latin, German, etc.
(Print.) The setting up of type and arranging it for printing.
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The state of being put together or composed; conjunction; combination; adjustment.
View them in composition with other things.
--I. Watts.The elementary composition of bodies.
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A mass or body formed by combining two or more substances; as, a chemical composition.
A composition that looks . . . like marble.
--Addison. A literary, musical, or artistic production, especially one showing study and care in arrangement; -- often used of an elementary essay or translation done as an educational exercise.
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Consistency; accord; congruity. [Obs.]
There is no composition in these news That gives them credit.
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Mutual agreement to terms or conditions for the settlement of a difference or controversy; also, the terms or conditions of settlement; agreement.
Thus we are agreed: I crave our composition may be written.
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(Law) The adjustment of a debt, or avoidance of an obligation, by some form of compensation agreed on between the parties; also, the sum or amount of compensation agreed upon in the adjustment.
Compositions for not taking the order of knighthood.
--Hallam.Cleared by composition with their creditors.
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Synthesis as opposed to analysis.
The investigation of difficult things by the method of analysis ought ever to precede the method of composition.
--Sir I. Newton.Composition cloth, a kind of cloth covered with a preparation making it waterproof.
Composition deed, an agreement for composition between a debtor and several creditors.
Composition plane (Crystallog.), the plane by which the two individuals of a twin crystal are united in their reserved positions.
Composition of forces (Mech.), the finding of a single force (called the resultant) which shall be equal in effect to two or more given forces (called the components) when acting in given directions.
--Herbert.Composition metal, an alloy resembling brass, which is sometimes used instead of copper for sheathing vessels; -- also called Muntz metal and yellow metal.
Composition of proportion (Math.), an arrangement of four proportionals so that the sum of the first and second is to the second as the sum of the third and fourth to the fourth.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "action of combining," also "manner in which a thing is composed," from Old French composicion (13c., Modern French composition) "composition, make-up, literary work, agreement, settlement," from Latin compositionem (nominative compositio) "a putting together, connecting, arranging," noun of action from past participle stem of componere (see composite). Meaning "art of constructing sentences" is from 1550s; that of "literary production" (often also "writing exercise for students") is from c.1600. Printing sense is 1832; meaning "arrangement of parts in a picture" is from 1706.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The proportion of different parts to make a whole. (from 14th c.) 2 The general makeup of something. (from 14th c.) 3 (context obsolete English) An agreement or treaty used to settle differences; later especially, an agreement to stop hostilities; a truce. (14th-19th c.) 4 (context obsolete English) An agreement to pay money in order to clear a liability or obligation; a settling. (16th-19th c.) 5 (context legal English) an agreement or compromise by which a creditor or group of creditors accepts partial payment from a debtor. 6 A mixture or compound; the result of composing. (from 16th c.) 7 An essay. (from 16th c.) 8 (context linguistics English) The formation of compound words from separate words. (from 16th c.) 9 A work of music, literature or art. (from 17th c.) 10 (context printing English) typesetting. (from 19th c.) 11 (label en mathematics) apply a function to the result of another. 12 (context obsolete English) Consistency; accord; congruity. 13 synthesis as opposed to analysis. 14 (context painting English) The arrangement and flow of elements in a picture.
WordNet
n. a mixture of ingredients
the way in which someone or something is composed [syn: constitution, makeup]
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" [syn: composing]
a musical work that has been created; "the composition is written in four movements" [syn: musical composition, opus, piece, piece of music]
musical creation [syn: composing]
the act of creating written works; "writing was a form of therapy for him"; "it was a matter of disputed authorship" [syn: writing, authorship, penning]
art and technique of printing with movable type [syn: typography]
an essay (especially one written as an assignment); "he got an A on his composition" [syn: paper, report, theme]
something that is created by arranging several things to form a unified whole; "he envied the composition of their faculty"
Wikipedia
Composition or Compositions may refer to:
The term composition (from Latin com- "with" and ponere "to place"), in written language, refers to the body of important features established by the author in their creation of literature. Composition relates to narrative works of literature, but also relates to essays, biographies, and other works established in the field of rhetoric.
In mathematics, a composition of an integer n is a way of writing n as the sum of a sequence of (strictly) positive integers. Two sequences that differ in the order of their terms define different compositions of their sum, while they are considered to define the same partition of that number. Every integer has finitely many distinct compositions. Negative numbers do not have any compositions, but 0 has one composition, the empty sequence. Each positive integer n has 2 distinct compositions. A weak composition of an integer n is similar to a composition of n, but allowing terms of the sequence to be zero: it is a way of writing n as the sum of a sequence of non-negative integers. As a consequence every positive integer admits infinitely many weak compositions (if their length is not bounded). Adding a number of terms 0 to the end of a weak composition is usually not considered to define a different weak composition; in other words, weak compositions are assumed to be implicitly extended indefinitely by terms 0.
To further generalize, an ''' A-restricted composition''' of an integer n, for a subset A of the (nonnegative or positive) integers, is an ordered collection of one or more elements in A whose sum is n.
In the visual arts—in particular painting, graphic design, photography, and sculpture—composition is the placement or arrangement of visual elements or ingredients in a work of art, as distinct from the subject of a work. It can also be thought of as the organization of the elements of art according to the principles of art.
The term composition means 'putting together,' and can apply to any work of art, from music to writing to photography, that is arranged or put together using conscious thought. In the visual arts, composition is often used interchangeably with various terms such as design, form, visual ordering, or formal structure, depending on the context.
Compounding is a legal procedure whereby a criminal or delinquent avoids prosecution in a court of law, potentially leading to the confiscation of his estate or some other punishment, in exchange for his payment to the authorities of a financial penalty or fine. The agreement so reached is termed a composition. The term is from the Latin verb compono, "I put together, join" ( supine compositum). In general legal terminology a "composition" is "an agreement not to prosecute in return for a consideration". It was commonly used by the victorious Parliamentarians against the Royalists after the English Civil War, for which purpose the Committee for Compounding with Delinquents was established in 1643. Another historical agreement was the Ausgleich, Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867, or Composition of 1867.
Usage examples of "composition".
Further, the accidents after the consecration of this sacrament do not obtain any composition.
To achieve this psychological cyclisation and make it aesthetically convincing, the old ways of linking the stories had to be abandoned and a new method had to be found to make the whole composition of the cycle perfectly natural and motivated.
George had developed greatly as a songwriter and was now demanding equal time on albums for his compositions.
Because the Baudot alphabet is public information, the composition of the 32 cipher alphabets filling the body of the tableau would be known.
This inextricable bias appears even to influence his manner of composition.
Lucian, this age of indolence passed away without having produced a single writer of original genius, or who excelled in the arts of elegant composition.
It must be noticed how carefully Michael Angelo has arranged his composition, so that the baldacchino used behind the High Altar upon great occasions shall not injure his composition.
Madhva, and pleasing with a composition full of sweet words,--O ye best of the worshippers of Bhagavat, if faith be desired in your minds.
The tone-poems of Debussy and the ballets of Ravel and Strawinsky, the scintillating orchestral compositions of Strauss and Rimsky and Bloch, could scarcely have come to be had not Berlioz called the attention of the world to the instruments in which the colors and timbres in which it is steeped, lie dormant.
Journey to Calvary, which contains about forty figures rather larger than life, and nine horses,--is of such superlative excellence as regards composition and dramatic power, to say nothing of the many admirable individual figures comprised in it, that it is not too much to call it the most astounding work that has ever been achieved in sculpture.
These ordinary brick clays vary considerably in composition, and many clays, as they are found in nature, are unsuitable for brickmaking without the addition of some other kind of clay or sand.
It is impossible to give a typical composition for such clays, as the percentages of the different constituents vary through such wide ranges.
Gradually there were added to these psalter choir-books additions in the form of antiphons, responses, collects or short prayers, for the use of those not skilful at improvisation and metrical compositions.
The concerti, the often flashy and tinselly pianoforte compositions of Liszt and Rubinstein were the immediate and surface result of that deeper sense of the instrument which arrived during the nineteenth century, and intoxicated folk with the piano timbres, and made them eager to hear its many voices in no matter how crude a form.
They remained two-and-a-half hours during which they photographed the star and its spectrum and as many neighboring stars as they could, made special coronagraphic observations, tested the chemical composition of the interstellar gas, and then Professor Firebrenner said, rather reluctantly, think we had better go home now.