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PHYSICAL COMPOSITION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The way in which someone or something is composed
Synonyms:
composition; constitution; make-up; makeup; physical composition
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("physical composition" is a kind of...):
property (a basic or essential attribute shared by all members of a class)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "physical composition"):
structure (the manner of construction of something and the arrangement of its parts)
phenotype (what an organism looks like as a consequence of the interaction of its genotype and the environment)
genetic constitution; genotype (the particular alleles at specified loci present in an organism)
grain; texture (the physical composition of something (especially with respect to the size and shape of the small constituents of a substance))
karyotype (the appearance of the chromosomal makeup of a somatic cell in an individual or species (including the number and arrangement and size and structure of the chromosomes))
