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compositionally

compositionally adverb: with regard to composition.

Adverb

compositionally (not comparable)

  1. With regard to composition.
    • The two minerals are compositionally distinct.
    • Several of the larger works in the exhibit are composed of multiple prints arranged with a space between the edges to gie the overall appearance of panes in a window or a grid. This is more effective in some cases than others. The largest piece in the show "Wet Weather" (uttilizing 16 separate...1987 April 25, Tom Grabosky, “What Is a "Gay Artist"?”, in Gay Community News, page 6
  2. By means of composition.
    • In particular, its meaning will normally also be retrieved from storage rather than computed compositionally, from the constituents.2004, Östen Dahl, The Growth and Maintenance of Linguistic Complexity, →ISBN, page 180

Origin of compositionally

From compositional + -ly.

Words formed from compositionally

Questions about compositionally

What does compositionally mean?
Compositionally means with regard to composition.
What part of speech is compositionally?
Compositionally is an adverb.

Words near compositionally in the dictionary

  1. compositional grammars
  2. compositionalism
  3. compositionalist
  4. compositionalists
  5. compositionality
  6. compositionally
  7. compositionism
  8. compositionist
  9. compositionists
  10. compositions
  11. compositive

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