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Composition

noun

The spatial property resulting from the arrangement of parts in relation to each other and to the whole. Synonym: composing.

The way in which someone or something is composed. Synonyms: constitution, make-up, makeup, physical composition.

A mixture of ingredients.

A musical work that has been created. Synonyms: musical composition, opus, piece, piece of music.

Musical creation. Synonym: composing.

The act of creating written works. Synonyms: authorship, penning, writing. "It was a matter of disputed authorship"

Art and technique of printing with movable type. Synonym: typography.

An essay (especially one written as an assignment). Synonyms: paper, report, theme.

Something that is created by arranging several things to form a unified whole.

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... The aboriginal composition now presented to the public has some peculiar claims on the attention of scholars. As a record, if we accept the chronology of its custodians,—which there is no reason to question,—it carries back the authentic history of Northern America to a date anterior by fifty years to the arrival ...

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... 25th October, 1854.—It occurs to me, my dearest Mary, that if I send you a note from different parts on the way through this colony, some of them will surely reach you; and If they carry any of the affection I bear to you in their composition, they will not fail to comfort you. I got everything in Loanda I could desire; and were there only a wagon-path for us, this would be as good an opening into the interior as we could wish. I remained rather a long time in the city ...

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