recomposition

English

Etymology

From re- +‎ composition.

Noun

recomposition (countable and uncountable, plural recompositions)

1. Composition again or anew; the process or result of recomposing
   • 1881, Ernestine Rose, A Defence of Atheism, J.P. Mendum, page 15:

     The Universe is one vast chemical laboratory, in constant operation, by her internal forces. The laws or principles of attraction, cohesion, and repulsion, produce in never-ending succession the phenomena of composition, decomposition, and recomposition.

   • 1993, Joan Schenkar, “A New Way to Pay Old Debts”, in Ellen Donkin, Susan Clement, editors, Upstaging Big Daddy: Directing Theater as If Gender and Race Matter, Ann Arbor, Mich.: The University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 258:

     This unnecessary process of recomposition can also attack a playwright most effectively in the last two weeks of rehearsal, when the production is usually in pieces, the actors restive, and a quick solution to everyone’s discomfort appears to be an amputation of one of the limbs of the script.

French

Etymology

From re- +‎ composition.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.kɔ̃.po.zi.sjɔ̃/

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Noun

recomposition f (plural recompositions)

1. recomposition
2. (linguistics) process by which a compound word which has undergone phonetic changes is reformed anew from its constituents; the result of that process

Further reading

• “recomposition”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.