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say it: kahm-puh-ZISH-uhn
composition is a noun meaning "the spatial property resulting from the arrangement of parts in relation to each other and to the whole". It carries 9 recorded senses.
the way in which someone or something is composed
a musical work that has been created
“the composition is written in four movements”
musical creation
the act of creating written works
“writing was a form of therapy for him”
“it was a matter of disputed authorship”
art and technique of printing with movable type
an essay (especially one written as an assignment)
“he got an A on his composition”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for composition come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.