Composition vs Representation - What's the difference?
composition | representation |
The proportion of different parts to make a whole.
The general makeup of something.
(obsolete) An agreement or treaty used to settle differences; later especially, an agreement to stop hostilities; a truce.
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* 1630 , John Smith, True travels , in Kupperman 1988, p.50:
(obsolete) An agreement to pay money in order to clear a liability or obligation; a settling.
* 1745 , Edward Young, Night-Thoughts , II:
(legal) an agreement or compromise by which a creditor or group of creditors accepts partial payment from a debtor.
A mixture or compound; the result of composing.
An essay.
(linguistics) The formation of compound words from separate words.
A work of music, literature or art.
* 1818 , (Jane Austen), A letter dated 8 September 1818:
(printing) Typesetting.
(label) Applying a function to the result of another.
(obsolete) Consistency; accord; congruity.
* Shakespeare
Synthesis as opposed to analysis.
* Sir Isaac Newton
That which represents another.
(legal) The lawyers and staff who argue on behalf of another in court.
(politics) The ability to elect a representative to speak on one's behalf in government; the role of this representative in government.
(mathematics) An object that describes an abstract group in terms of linear transformations of vector spaces.
A figure, image or idea that substitutes reality.
A theatrical performance.
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In lang=en terms the difference between composition and representation
is that composition is an agreement or compromise by which a creditor or group of creditors accepts partial payment from a debtor while representation is the lawyers and staff who argue on behalf of another in court.In mathematics terms the difference between composition and representation
is that composition is applying a function to the result of another while representation is an object that describes an abstract group in terms of linear transformations of vector spaces.As nouns the difference between composition and representation
is that composition is the proportion of different parts to make a whole while representation is that which represents another.composition
English
(wikipedia composition)Noun
(en noun)- It will stoope and yeeld upon better compositions to him that shall make head against it.
- with an incredible courage they advanced to the push of the Pike with the defendants, that with the like courage repulsed, that the Turks retired and fled into the Castle, from whence by a flag of truce they desired composition .
- Insidious death! should his strong hand arrest, / No composition sets the prisoner free.
- and how good Mrs. West could have written such books and collected so many hard words, with all her family cares, is still more a matter of astonishment. Composition seems to me impossible with a head full of joints of mutton and doses of rhubarb.
- There is no composition in these news / That gives them credit.
- The investigation of difficult things by the method of analysis ought ever to precede the method of composition .
Synonyms
* See alsorepresentation
English
(wikipedia representation)Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
(en noun)Quotations
* 1637 , ,final sentence*: Live, ?weet Lord, to be the honour of your name, and receive this as your own, from the hands of him, who hath by many favours beene long obliged to your mo?t honoured parents, and as in this repræ?entation your attendant Thyr?is , ?o now in all reall expre??ion
Your faithfull and mo?t humble Servant,
H. Lawes.d