Definitions

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  • adjective Of or pertaining to composition.
  • adjective linguistics Being the sum of its parts.

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  • adjective arranging or grouping

Etymologies

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From composition +‎ -al.

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Examples

  • The Clogs are a four-person, part-time improvisational and part-time compositional from the US and the land down under, and while their instrumentation is somewhat folk in nature, their sound is very progressive.

    Tuesday = Track 2 (Music (For Robots)) 2006

  • The Clogs are a four-person, part-time improvisational and part-time compositional from the US and the land down under, and while their instrumentation is somewhat folk in nature, their sound is very progressive.

    Music (For Robots): August 2006 Archives 2006

  • I thus associate the compact world of the admirable hill-top, the world of a predominant golden-brown, with a general invocation of sensibility and fancy, and think of myself as going forth into the lingering light of summer evenings all attuned to intensity of the idea of compositional beauty, or in other words, freely speaking, to the question of colour, to intensity of picture.

    Italian Hours Henry James 1879

  • A neo-davidsonian analysis that posits an event variable in the syntactic structure is a step towards the right kind of compositional, internalist semantics that linguistics should aspire for today.

    Archive 2008-10-01 kesav 2008

  • A neo-davidsonian analysis that posits an event variable in the syntactic structure is a step towards the right kind of compositional, internalist semantics that linguistics should aspire for today.

    Untouchable Spring .... అంటరాని వసంతం kesav 2008

  • It would have been a perfect way to explore the medium, to use blog serialization as a kind of compositional pallete to write the novel.

    Novel Excerpt: World Fantasy | Goblin Mercantile Exchange 2007

  • It would have been a perfect way to explore the medium, to use blog serialization as a kind of compositional pallete to write the novel.

    2007 January | Goblin Mercantile Exchange 2007

  • One sometimes says that Tarski's definition of satisfaction is compositional, meaning that the class of assignments which satisfy a compound formula F is determined solely by (1) the syntactic rule used to construct F from its immediate constituents and (2) the classes of assignments that satisfy these immediate constituents.

    Tarski's Truth Definitions Hodges, Wilfrid 2006

  • It's almost a kind of compositional sleight-of-hand, as Sting uses catchy melodies and pop-savvy arrangements to distract our attention away from just how crafty these songs are.

    Ten Summoner's Tales 1993

  • Paired with a ton of angst, this is the kind of compositional precision that can only be attained by hiding away in a random shack in Canada.

    Washington Square News William Ward 2010

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