Noun

Calmness of mind or matter, self-possession.

* Milton

We seek peace and composure .

* I. Watts

When the passions are all silent, the mind enjoys its most perfect composure .

*

“Did you want anything, ma’am?” I enquired, still preserving my external composure , in spite of her ghastly countenance and strange exaggerated manner.

* {{quote-news

, year=2011 , date=September 2 , author= , title=Wales 2-1 Montenegro , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Montenegro's early composure was shaken by that set-back and a visibly buoyed Wales nearly added a second goal when Bale broke past two defenders and fired a long-range shot that Bozovic tipped over}}

* {{quote-book

, year=1798 , author=Giacomo Casanova , title=The memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt , chapter=92 citation , passage=He began to lose his composure , and made mistakes, his cards got mixed up, and his scoring was wild.}}

(obsolete) The act of composing, or that which is composed; a composition.

* Evelyn

Signor Pietro, who had an admirable way both of composure [in music] and teaching.

(obsolete) Orderly adjustment; disposition.

* Woodward

Various composures and combinations of these corpuscles.

(obsolete) frame; make; temperament

* Shakespeare

His composure must be rare indeed / Whom these things can not blemish.

(obsolete) A combination; a union; a bond.

(Shakespeare)

(Webster 1913)

Noun

(en-noun)

The act, process or ability of concentrating; the process of becoming concentrated, or the state of being concentrated.

# The direction of attention to a specific object.

# The act, process or product of reducing the volume of a liquid, as by evaporation.

# The act or process of removing the dress of ore and of reducing the valuable part to smaller compass, as by currents of air or water.

A field or course of study on which one focuses, especially as a student in a college or university.

The proportion of a substance in a whole.

* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Philip J. Bushnell, magazine=(American Scientist)

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# (chemistry) The amount of solute in a solution measured in suitable units (e.g., parts per million (ppm))

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