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composition

10 definitions • 12 examples
1
a piece of music that someone has written:

Examples:

This concerto is one of her earlier/later compositions.
2
the process or skill of writing music:

Examples:

At music school I studied piano and composition.
3
the way that people or things are arranged in a painting or photograph:

Examples:

a group composition
4
a short piece of writing about a particular subject, done by a student:

Examples:

a 200-word composition
5
the parts, substances, etc. that something is made of:

Examples:

the composition of the atmosphere
6
something that a person has created or written, esp. a text, a work of art, or a piece of music, or the act of creating or writing something:

Examples:

[ C ] a composition for piano and flute
[ C ] In school we had to write a composition (= short piece of writing) on our favorite TV programs.
7
the mixture of things or people that are combined to form something:

Examples:

the composition of the atmosphere
The composition of the city’s population has changed dramatically in the past 20 years.
8
the way in which the parts of something are arranged:

Examples:

the composition of sth The company said it plans to change the composition of its board of directors, creating a board composed predominantly of independent directors.
9
a manufactured material made of more than one substance:

Examples:

Composition tiles have replaced asbestos tiles in public buildings.
10
an agreement in which someone who owes money pays less than is owed, in order to settle the debt more quickly:

Examples:

make a composition with sb If a person has at any time been made bankrupt or has made a composition with creditors, he is disqualified from being appointed as a trustee of the charity.

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