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Composition

noun

The spatial property resulting from the arrangement of parts in relation to each other and to the whole. Synonym: composing.

The way in which someone or something is composed. Synonyms: constitution, make-up, makeup, physical composition.

A mixture of ingredients.

A musical work that has been created. Synonyms: musical composition, opus, piece, piece of music.

Musical creation. Synonym: composing.

The act of creating written works. Synonyms: authorship, penning, writing. "It was a matter of disputed authorship"

Art and technique of printing with movable type. Synonym: typography.

An essay (especially one written as an assignment). Synonyms: paper, report, theme.

Something that is created by arranging several things to form a unified whole.

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"Composition" Quotes from Famous Books

... smoke apparatus consisted of an arrangement for burning phosphorus at the stern of a ship; in other cases firework composition and other chemicals were used. A dense smoke cloud was thus formed, and, with the wind in a suitable direction, a vessel could hide her movements from an enemy submarine or other vessel, and thus screen herself ...

— The Crisis of the Naval War • John Rushworth Jellicoe

... look sweet! That blue is lovely for you. It never suited me at all. Blue is angel color and I have too much—well, of the other thing in my composition to wear it. Come on. The boys have been whistling impatience for half an hour and I don't want to scare Larry out of going. It is the first function he has condescended to attend ...

— Wild Wings - A Romance of Youth • Margaret Rebecca Piper

... room! and what a brighter, fresher little girl!-as different from thy city friends, Tom Burroughs, as the cream she pours is from the chalky composition of the hotels. Thou dost half persuade me to turn Hoosier, and help thee convert the wilderness to a blooming garden, O darlingest ...

— Outpost • J.G. Austin

... something like this: A head of St. John in the corner; rays of light (two very thin small rays) shining on him, and a look of great suffering on his face. The background a sort of dull ochre. Evidently once a large composition. There are two books, one with EVAN, and the other with, I think, BIBLIA SACRA, written on it. It is quite worthless except from a ...

— Letters to Helen - Impressions of an Artist on the Western Front • Keith Henderson

... however, an essential difference to be noted in the position of these spires, those of the cathedrals at the centre, the crowning point in the composition, those of the parish churches at the west end, springing sheer from the ground. While the former have a more intimate relation to the building the latter have an almost independent existence in keeping with the theory which regards them more as symbols of municipal pride and power ...

— Bell's Cathedrals: The Churches of Coventry - A Short History of the City and Its Medieval Remains • Frederic W. Woodhouse

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