composition🔊

The act of putting together; assembly.

A mixture or compound; the result of composing.

The proportion of different parts to make a whole.

The general makeup of a thing or person.

(obsolete) An agreement or treaty used to settle differences; later especially, an agreement to stop hostilities; a truce. (19th c.)

(obsolete) A payment of money in order to clear a liability or obligation; a settling or fine. (19th c.)

(law) A payment of fine in order to settle a (usually minor) criminal charge.

(law) an agreement or compromise by which a creditor or group of creditors accepts partial payment from a debtor.

(Q35760)An essay.

(linguistics) The formation of compound words from separate words.

A work of music, literature or art.

(Q837721) (printing) Typesetting.

(mathematics) Applying a function to the result of another.

(physics) The compounding of two velocities or forces into a single equivalent velocity or force.

(obsolete) Consistency; accord; congruity.

Synthesis as opposed to analysis.

(photography) The arrangement and flow of elements in a picture.

(object-oriented programming) Way to combine simple objects or data types into more complex ones.