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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.

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composition

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ˌkɒmpəˈzɪʃən/

Noun

countable uncountable obsolete Singapore

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.

Japanese Meaning

各部分を組み合わせる行為、またはその結果としてできたもの / 複数の要素からなる混合物または合成物 / 全体を構成する各部分のバランスや割合 / 物や人の全体的な構成や組み立て状態

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The composition of the prototype required carefully selecting and assembling each component.

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プロトタイプを組み立てる行為には、各部品を慎重に選び、組み立てる必要があった。

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Sense（1）

The act of putting together; assembly.

Sense（2）

A mixture or compound; the result of composing.

Ste. What do'st thou know me for?

Kent. A Knave, a Rascall, … one that would'st be a Baud in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a Kave, Begger, Coward, Pandar, and the Sonne and Heire of a Mungrill Bitch, one whom I will beate in to clamours whining, if thou deny'st the least sillable of thy addition.

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Sense（3）

The proportion of different parts to make a whole.

And as for the perfume which thou shalt make, ye shall not make to yourselves according to the composition thereof: it shall be unto thee holy for the Lord.

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Sense（4）

The general makeup of a thing or person.

John of Gaunt. O how that name befits my composition!

Old Gaunt indeed, and gaunt in being old:

Within me grief hath kept a tedious fast;

And who abstains from meat that is not gaunt?

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Sense（5）

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

It will stoope and yeeld upon better compositions to him that shall make head against it.

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Sense（6）

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

Sense（7）

(Singapore, law) A payment of fine in order to settle a (usually minor) criminal charge.

Sense（8）

(law) an agreement or compromise by which a creditor or group of creditors accepts partial payment from a debtor.

Sense（9）

An essay.

Sense（10）

(linguistics) The formation of compound words from separate words.

Sense（11）

A work of music, literature or art.

[…] and how good Mrs. West could have written such books and collected so many hard words, with all her family cares, is still more a matter of astonishment. Composition seems to me impossible with a head full of joints of mutton and doses of rhubarb.

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