Composition

What do we mean by composition?

The combining of distinct parts or elements to form a whole. noun

The manner in which such parts are combined or related. noun

General makeup. noun

The result or product of composing; a mixture or compound. noun

Arrangement of artistic parts so as to form a unified whole. noun

The art or act of composing a musical or literary work. noun

A work of music, literature, or art, or its structure or organization. noun

A short essay, especially one written as an academic exercise. noun

A settlement whereby the creditors of a debtor about to enter bankruptcy agree, in return for some financial consideration, usually proffered immediately, to the discharge of their respective claims on receipt of payment which is in a lesser amount than that actually owed on the claim. noun

The formation of compounds from separate words. noun

Typesetting. noun

In chem., the kind and relative amounts of the components of a compound; commonly, the kind and relative weights of the elements, or the kind and number of the atoms, which makeup the compound. noun

The act of composing or compounding, or the state of being composed, compounded, or made up; union of different things or principles into an individual whole; the production of a whole by the union or combination of parts, constituents, or elements. noun

Specifically— The act of producing a literary work. noun

The art of putting words and sentences together in accordance with the rules of grammar and rhetoric: as, Greek prose composition. noun

In printing, the setting of type; type-setting; in a wider sense, the preparation of type for use in the production of printed sheets, including setting, correction of errors, making up, and imposition. noun

In philology, the union of two (rarely more than two) independent words to form a single word (called a compound); the formation of a word out of other existing words, as rainbow from rain and bow; and so gentleman, lifelike, fulfil, etc. See compound word, under compound, adjective noun

In music, the art of composing music according to scientific rules. Composition is said to be strict when it follows certain recognized rules of musical form, and free when it is more or less independent of such rules. noun

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.

An agreement or treaty used to settle differences; later especially, an agreement to stop hostilities; a truce.

A payment of money in order to clear a liability or obligation; a settling or fine.

An agreement or compromise by which a creditor or group of creditors accepts partial payment from a debtor.

An essay.

The formation of compound words from separate words.

A work of music, literature or art.

Typesetting.

Applying a function to the result of another.

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

Consistency; accord; congruity.

Synthesis as opposed to analysis.

The arrangement and flow of elements in a picture.

Way to combine simple objects or data types into more complex ones.

Words that are spelled similarly to composition:
composition, komposition, competition, opposition, imposition, decomposition, compositor, commonition, compotation, compositing, compositions, compositive, recomposition.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word composition:
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Words that rhyme with composition:
disposition, commission, condition, position, transition, attrition, definition, mission, sedition, proposition, acquisition, intuition, deposition, ambition, competition, volition, juxtaposition, cognition, addition, recognition, exposition, transmission, remission, expedition, nutrition, tradition, submission, partition, rendition, petition, admonition, requisition, opposition, fruition, omission, edition, apparition, physician, coalition, emission, admission, tuition, erudition, exhibition, contrition, inhibition, suspicion, premonition, technician, supposition, imposition, prohibition, permission, patrician, superstition, audition, ammunition, inquisition, repetition, politician, pediatrician, decommission, fission, abolition, titian, predisposition, demolition, ignition, clinician, dentition, mortician, musician, beautician, dietician, magician, electrician, optician, malnutrition, academician, in addition, intermission, precondition, decomposition, munition, extradition, presupposition, reposition, dietitian, obstetrician, commision, logician, rhetorician, recission, statistician, mathematician, tactician, theoretician, recondition, search and destroy mission, redefinition.

Adjectives that are often used to describe composition:
same, acid, musical, racial, ethnic, social, different, average, original, english, literary, chemical, whole, isotopic, similar, oral, elemental, dramatic, exact, overall, actual, constant, organic, mineralogical, poetic, ionic, variable, genetic, entire, uniform, complex, demographic, initial, poetical, typical, definite, historical, molecular, body, atmospheric, unknown, elementary, occupational, parallel, mechanical, eutectic, cellular, biochemical, mixed, sectoral, floristic, stoichiometric, latin, architectural, liquid, identical, structural, pictorial, nominal, heterogeneous, artistic, balanced, solvent, precise, metrical, quantitative, mean, qualitative, sequential, atomic.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective composition:
rhetoric, lesson, contracts, writing, literature, the, thv, continued, original, model, reproduction, diagrams, property, subject, teaching, day, based, heavy, number, deed, picture, dependent, matter, complements, type, filters, voice, adjectives, adverbs, participles, board, noun, connectives, section, induced, four, temperature, remediesresiduary, deeds, field, path, identity.

Words that sound like composition:
composition, competition, compositions, compensation, competitions, compilation, compositional, compotation, compellation, imposition, combination, compulsion, decomposition, computation, comparision, comparation, commonition, reimposition, complexion, compression, compassion, opposition, complication, completion, combustion, connotation, exposition, compunction, compaction, commutation, compilations, compensations, cosmetician, commination, communition, competition law, combat mission.