compositional

[kahm-puh-zish-uhn-uhl]

adjective

1. of or relating to the process or skill of composing musical or written work.

2. of or relating to the elements of a scene or picture, or the arrangement of these elements for maximum effect, as in painting or photography.

3. of or relating to the parts, elements, or ingredients of a substance or the way they are combined or arranged.

Example Sentences

The team used compositional data from every known meteorite and carried out simulations of how the samples' potassium-40 deficit would change following impacts by these meteorites and by the giant impact.

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It sounds performed rather than inhabited, emphasizing compositional sturdiness rather than desperation.

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Written two or three years ago, it shares its compositional DNA with Raye's Where Is My Husband!

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Dressed in all-white formalwear, the band took care to show how much compositional rigor went into this album’s laid-back feeling.

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All this suggests that the last common ancestor of chimpanzees, bonobos and humans likely also produced compositional structures.

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