a piece of writing; esp a school essay
Read your own compositions, and when you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out — Dr Johnson
a written piece of music
a product of mixing or combining various elements or ingredients
the factors or parts that make up something, or the way in which the factors or parts make up the whole
the act or process of composing; specif arrangement into proper proportion or relation and artistic form
an arrangement of type for printing, or the production of this
an agreement by which a creditor accepts partial payment
compositional adj
compositionally adv
[Middle English composicioun via French from Latin composition-, compositio, from componere: see compound3]