Betekenis van composition In het Nederlands

• 0 a piece of music that someone has written:

  • This concerto is one of her earlier/later compositions.

  • At music school I studied piano and composition.

  • a group composition

• 1 a short piece of writing about a particular subject, done by a student:

  • a 200-word composition

• 2 the parts, substances, etc. that something is made of:

  • the composition of the atmosphere

• 3 something that a person has created or written, esp. a text, a work of art, or a piece of music, or the act of creating or writing something:

  • [ C ] a composition for piano and flute

  • [ C ] In school we had to write a composition (= short piece of writing) on our favorite TV programs.

• 4 the mixture of things or people that are combined to form something:

  • the composition of the atmosphere

  • The composition of the city’s population has changed dramatically in the past 20 years.

• 5 the way in which the parts of something are arranged:

  • the composition of sth The company said it plans to change the composition of its board of directors, creating a board composed predominantly of independent directors.

• 6 a manufactured material made of more than one substance:

  • Composition tiles have replaced asbestos tiles in public buildings.

• 7 an agreement in which someone who owes money pays less than is owed, in order to settle the debt more quickly:

  • make a composition with sb If a person has at any time been made bankrupt or has made a composition with creditors, he is disqualified from being appointed as a trustee of the charity.