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compoˈsitional, a.
[f. prec. + -al1.]
Of or pertaining to composition.
1815Knox & Jebb Corr. II. 222 To use verbal alterations, and compositional modification. 1922Daily Mail 8 Nov. 13 The compositional lines are so obvious that if the left half of the picture were covered up it would be..easy to fill in mentally the hidden part. 1928Observer 17 June 14/3 All the artists so far mentioned are mainly concerned with compositional problems. 1946R. Blesh Shining Trumpets (1949) xiii. 321 European compositional schools which can no longer be called modern. 1953C. E. Bazell Ling. Form 73 The distinction between particle and inflection belongs properly to the compositional level. 1960Farmer & Stockbreeder 26 Jan. 47/2 The compositional testing of milk samples. 1970Nature 6 June 926/2 A compositional layering in which the density increases upward in the stratigraphic sequence.
Hence compoˈsitionally adv.
1934in Webster. 1953C. E. Bazell Linguistic Form 51 There are no more morphs in sank than in rank, since compositionally these are on a par. 1969Bennison & Wright Geol. Hist. Brit. Isles iii. 65 The Gwna Mélange is a remarkable rock, compositionally mature quartzite and limestone blocks set in a chlorite schist. 1976Jrnl. Geol. Soc. CXXXII. 124 However, it differs in that it is located at the lower contact of a slump, and that the clasts are monomict and compositionally identical to the enclosing flysch calcarenites. 1984Times Lit. Suppl. 14 Sept. 1012/3 Elgar, compositionally, brought off what he did when, on so many occasions, he had virtually to start from scratch. |