Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To compose again; reorganize or rearrange.
- transitive verb To restore to composure; calm.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Specifically, in optics, to recombine, as the dispersed or scattered constituents of a complex beam of light.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To compose again; to form anew; to put together again or repeatedly.
- transitive verb To restore to composure; to quiet anew; to tranquilize.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb to
compose again
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Examples
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But it means that, unlike what we hoped in the 1970s-1980s, it will not be enough to "recompose"
unknown title 2009
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Ultimately, the player picks himself up, dusts himself off and starts to recompose a route through the city again.
Archive 2009-04-01 Ben Abraham 2009
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The technology entails taking hundreds of pictures of tiny portions of the artwork and then combining them to recompose the whole image.
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The technology entails taking hundreds of pictures of tiny portions of the artwork and then combining them to recompose the whole image.
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The technology entails taking hundreds of pictures of tiny portions of the artwork and then combining them to recompose the whole image.
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Ultimately, the player picks himself up, dusts himself off and starts to recompose a route through the city again.
The Raider, The Prince and The Assassin Ben Abraham 2009
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Apple has a sandbox concept that isolates the platform, which prevents certain viruses that want to replicate themselves or decompose and recompose to avoid virus scanners.
Android More Vulnerable To Attacks Than iPhone The Huffington Post 2011
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"Maybe we can recompose it now that it's a thirty second chunk that happens over this length of the scene."
Trent Reznor Talks Academy Awards Theo Spielberg 2011
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Apple has a sandbox concept that isolates the platform, which prevents certain viruses that want to replicate themselves or decompose and recompose to avoid virus scanners.
Android More Vulnerable To Attacks Than iPhone The Huffington Post 2011
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The technology entails taking hundreds of pictures of tiny portions of the artwork and then combining them to recompose the whole image.
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