compositionally

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adverb

With regard to composition.

“The two minerals are compositionally distinct.”

UncommonScrabble 24

Meanings

adverbcompositionally (not comparable)
  1. not comparableWith regard to composition.

    The two minerals are compositionally distinct.

    3 more examples

    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 prints pieced closely together) is weak compositionally and seems to have been done hurriedly and with less resolve than some of the other big works such as "Night Rehearsal" which is a wonderfully animated interplay of form, light, and shadow.

    1987 April 25, Tom Grabosky, “What Is a "Gay Artist"?”, in Gay Community News, page 6

    The central painting, depicting Circe's palace, is compositionally and stylistically different than the rest of the frieze.

    2009, Umberto Pappalardo, The Splendor of Roman Wall Painting, page 91

    Compositionally there is no great distinction between cell wall and cell surface, both are relatively transparent compounds, but both parts of the cell are of high significance in Biology due to their central role in cell functioning.

    2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Position vectors, homologous chromosomes and gamma rays: Promoting disciplinary literacy through Secondary Phrase Lists”, in English for Specific Purposes, →DOI, page 8
  2. not comparableBy 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

  1. Englishcomposition
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
  4. Englishcompositional
  5. Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
  6. Proto-Germanic*līką
  7. Englishcompositionally

From compositional + -ly.

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