Look up: composition

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   Composition
   Voluntary arrangement to restructure a firm's debt, under which payment is reduced.
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   composition
   [n] - a mixture of ingredients 2. [n] - an essay (especially one written as an assignment) 3. [n] - the spatial property resulting from the arrangement of parts in relation to each other and to the whole 4. [n] - something that is created by arranging several things to form a unified whole
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   Composition
   An agreement between debtor and his creditors whereby the compounding creditors agree with the debtor between themselves to accept from the debtor payment of less than the amounts due to them in full satisfaction of their claim.
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   Composition
   An agreement between debtor and his creditors whereby the compounding creditors agree with the debtor between themselves to accept from the debtor payment of less than the amounts due to them in full satisfaction of their claim.
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   Composition
   1. In typography, the assembly of typographic elements, such as words and paragraphs, into pages ready for printing.
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   Composition
   the design and organisation of individual components to produce a piece of Art. The term typically applies to two dimensional Art where balance and proportion are essential.
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   Composition
   The different components, in terms of the audience, that makes up a media's universe. For example ‘30.36% of all of ‘a cool magazine`s` readers are within my target audience`.
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   composition
   In Irish history, a key Elizabethan reform policy first instituted by Lord Deputy Henry Sidney (1529-1586) in the mid-1570s, which commuted the feudal practice of coyne and livery (military...
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   composition
   In art, the arrangement of elements within an artwork to give a desired effect, often described as pleasing (unified and appealing to the eye) or expressive (intended to evoke a particular mood,...
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    composition
    1. function composition. 2. typesetting.
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    Composition
    In a general sense any piece of music or writing, or any painting or sculpture, can be referred to as a composition. More specifically, the term refers to the way in which an artist has arranged the elements of the work so as to bring them into a relationship satisfactory to the artist and, it is hoped, the viewer. In art in the classical tradition ...
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    composition
    a procedure whereby the several creditors of a bankrupt agree to his proposal to pay some part of his debts in full settlement Category: Commerce - movement of goods • the representation of tree species in a forest crop or stand Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries • arrangement of type characters into words, lines and paragraphs Catego...
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    Composition
    The arrangement of the elements within a photograph--the main subject, the foreground and background, and supporting objects.
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    composition
    Plaster-like material made from whiting (chalk), resin and size or glue, and used to make relief mouldings on furniture. Compo can be pressed into moulds when wet, and is hard enough to be carved when dry. It was widely used in Britain in the second half of the 18thC. A version of compo based on wood-pulp materials mixed with ingredients such as eg ...
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    Composition
    Definition (advanced level) A composite function, or the composition of two functions, is the function made by doing them one after the other; taking the result of one function as the argument of the other.
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    Composition
    Definition (undergraduate level) Of two functions f : A → B and g : B → C : the function g ∘ f : A → C defined by g ∘ f ( a ) = g ( f ( a ) ) .
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    Composition
    Com`po·si'tion noun [ French composition , from Latin compositio . See Composite .] 1. The act or art of composing, or forming a whole or integral, by placing together and uniting different things, parts, or ingredients. In specific uses: (a) The invention or combination of the parts of any literary work or discourse, or of a work of art; as, the composition
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    composition
    In chemistry, the kinds and numbers of atoms constituting a molecule. ... Origin: L. Compono, to arrange ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
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    composition
    noun something that is created by arranging several things to form a unified whole; `he envied the composition of their faculty`
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    composition
    noun an essay (especially one written as an assignment); `he got an A on his composition`
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    composition
    noun a mixture of ingredients
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    composition
    noun the spatial property resulting from the arrangement of parts in relation to each other and to the whole; `harmonious composition is essential in a serious work of art`
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    Composition
    `Composition` can refer to: * Composition (logical fallacy), a fallacy of ambiguation in which one assumes that a whole has a property solely because its various parts have that property * Composition (visual arts), the plan, placement or arrangement of the elements of art in a work * Composition (language), in literature, oratory, and rhetoric, producing a work of spoken tradition or written literature * Composition (number theory), a way of wri...
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    Composition
    • (n.) The act of writing for practice in a language, as English, Latin, German, etc. • (n.) 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. • (n.) The invention or combination of the parts of any literary work or discours...
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    composition
    (from the article `sculpture`) ...is easy enough to do with a four-legged animal or a reclining figure but not with a standing figure or a tall, thin sculpture, which must be ... Space and mass are the raw materials of architectural form; from them the architect creates an ordered expression through the process of composition. ... [2...
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