Definition of Composition

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Composition

The act or art of composing, or forming a whole or integral, by placing together and uniting different things, parts, or ingredients.

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 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.

The setting up of type and arranging it for printing.

The state of being put together or composed; conjunction; combination; adjustment.

A mass or body formed by combining two or more substances; as, a chemical composition.

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.

Consistency; accord; congruity.

Mutual agreement to terms or conditions for the settlement of a difference or controversy; also, the terms or conditions of settlement; agreement.

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.

Synthesis as opposed to analysis.

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Composition Quotations

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.
Henry David Thoreau

Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.
Walt Whitman

Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.
Vincent Van Gogh

What I end up shooting is the situation. I shoot the composition and my subject is going to help the composition or not.
Annie Leibovitz

Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials.
Marshall McLuhan

At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.
Joseph Addison

No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
Claude Monet

When I design buildings, I think of the overall composition, much as the parts of a body would fit together. On top of that, I think about how people will approach the building and experience that space.
Tadao Ando

Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.
James Thurber

Composition Translations

composition in Dutch is toondicht, toonzetting, compositie
composition in French is gradin, composition
composition in German is Abfassung {f}, Zusammensetzung {f}
composition in Italian is trattato
composition in Latin is compositio
composition in Swedish is tema, uppsats, komposition

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