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arrangement
has definitions from the fields of music,physics,psychology,fine art
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[ noun ] (psychology) the thing arranged or agreed to
Synonyms Examples "they made arrangements to meet in Chicago" Used in print (Rocky Mountains News, [Denver, Colorado],...)THE DENVER-AREA TV_audience was privileged to see Mays ' four home_runs , thanks to a new arrangement made by Bob_Howsam that the games are not to be blacked_out when his Bears are playing at_home . (The Providence Journal...)This may be unfortunate , perhaps , from the standpoint of David_Hedison , Providence 's contribution to Hollywood , who is appearing by special arrangement with 20th_Century-Fox . (Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstasy....)The arrangement with Argiento was working well , except that sometimes Michelangelo could not figure who was master and who apprentice . (Leon Uris, Mila 8....)`` Were you able to make the arrangements '' ? (Frieda Arkin, "The Light of the Sea," in The...)I should be obliged if you could make other arrangements for your daughters . Related terms |
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[ noun ] an organized structure for arranging or classifying
Synonyms Examples "he changed the arrangement of the topics" "the facts were familiar but it was in the organization of them that he was original" "he tried to understand their system of classification" Used in print (Douglas Ashford, "Elections in Morocco: Progress...)A second major point of this essay is to examine the formal arrangements for the elections . |
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[ noun ] an orderly grouping (of things or persons)
Used in print (Raymond C. Binder et al., editors, Proceedings...)The experimental arrangement as described below is based on the geometry of free_burning arcs . This arrangement had the purpose to prevent heated gas to reach the thermocouple by natural convection . (Robert A. Futterman, The Future of Our Cities....)It is interesting to note how many of the plants on Massachusetts ' Route_128 draw most of their income either from the government in non-competitive cost-plus arrangements , or from the exploitation of patents which grant at_least a partial monopoly . |
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[ noun ] (physics) the activity or result of distributing or disposing persons or things properly or methodically
Synonyms Examples "in this new organization the container is much smaller" Used in print (Walter H. Buchsbaum, "Advances in Medical Electronics"...)In this novel arrangement the `` pill '' is much smaller and contains only a resonant circuit in_which the capacitor is formed by a pressure sensing transducer . |
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[ noun ] the spatial property of the way in which something is placed
Synonyms Examples : "the arrangement of the furniture" "the placement of the chairs" Used in print (Kenneth Allsop, The Bootleggers and Their Era...)He was an expert florist , tenderly dextrous in the arrangement of bouquets and wreaths . (The Family Fallout Shelter. Office of Civil and Defence...)Arrangement of the entrance . |
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[ noun ] (music,fine art) a piece of music that has been adapted for performance by a particular set of voices or instruments
Synonyms Used in print (The Christian Science Monitor,...)Big_Band_Percussion ( SP 44002 ) seemed one of the least attractive discs - the arrangements just did n't have so much character as the others . Related terms |
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[ noun ] something made by arranging ordered parts together; the result of arranging
Examples "the roof bore an impressive arrangement of antennas" |
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[ noun ] (music) the act of arranging a piece of music
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