Typology vs Composition - What's the difference?
typology | composition |
the systematic classification of the types of something according to their common characteristics
(archaeology) the result of the classification of things according to their characteristics
(linguistics) classification of languages according to their linguistic trait (as opposed to historical families like romance languages)
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.
* , I.40:
* 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
In linguistics|lang=en terms the difference between typology and composition
is that typology is (linguistics) classification of languages according to their linguistic trait (as opposed to historical families like romance languages) while composition is (linguistics) the formation of compound words from separate words.As nouns the difference between typology and composition
is that typology is the systematic classification of the types of something according to their common characteristics while composition is the proportion of different parts to make a whole.typology
English
(wikipedia typology)Noun
(typologies)Derived terms
* typological * typologist * linguistic typology * morphological typologySee also
* taxonomy * value domaincomposition
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 .