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n. [ Cf. LL. antepositio. See Position. ] (Gram.) The placing of a before another, which, by ordinary rules, ought to follow it. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_;; &unr_; from + &unr_; food. ] (Med.) Destroying the appetite, or suspending hunger. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. appositus, p. p. of apponere to set or put to; ad + ponere to put, place. ] Very applicable; well adapted; suitable or fit; relevant; pat; -- followed by to; as, this argument is very apposite to the case. -- Ap"po*site*ly, adv. -- Ap"po*site*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. appositio, fr. apponere: cf. F. apposition. See Apposite. ] 1. The act of adding; application; accretion. [ 1913 Webster ]

It grows . . . by the apposition of new matter. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The putting of things in juxtaposition, or side by side; also, the condition of being so placed. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Gram.) The state of two nouns or pronouns, put in the same case, without a connecting word between them; as, I admire Cicero, the orator. Here, the second noun explains or characterizes the first. [ 1913 Webster ]

Growth by apposition (Physiol.), a mode of growth characteristic of non vascular tissues, in which nutritive matter from the blood is transformed on the surface of an organ into solid unorganized substance. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to apposition; put in apposition syntactically. Ellicott. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or relating to apposition; in apposition. -- n. A noun in apposition. -- Ap*pos"i*tive*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

Appositive to the words going immediately before. Knatchbull. [1913 Webster]

n. [ L. circumpositio, fr. circumponere, - positium, to place around. ] The act of placing in a circle, or round about, or the state of being so placed. Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., from L. compositus made up of parts. See Composite. ] (Bot.) A large family of dicotyledonous plants, having their flowers arranged in dense heads of many small florets and their anthers united in a tube. The daisy, dandelion, and asters, are examples. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. compositus made up of parts, p. p. of componere. See Compound, v. t., and cf. Compost. ] 1. Made up of distinct parts or elements; compounded; as, a composite language. [ 1913 Webster ]

Happiness, like air and water . . . is composite. Landor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Arch.) Belonging to a certain order which is composed of the Ionic order grafted upon the Corinthian. It is called also the Roman or the Italic order, and is one of the five orders recognized by the Italian writers of the sixteenth century. See Capital. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Bot.) Belonging to the order Compositæ; bearing involucrate heads of many small florets, as the daisy, thistle, and dandelion. [ 1913 Webster ]

Composite carriage, a railroad car having compartments of different classes. [ Eng. ] --
Composite number (Math.), one which can be divided exactly by a number exceeding unity, as 6 by 2 or 3.. --
Composite photograph or
Composite portrait, one made by a combination, or blending, of several distinct photographs. F. Galton. --
Composite sailing (Naut.), a combination of parallel and great circle sailing. --
Composite ship, one with a wooden casing and iron frame. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. That which is made up of parts or compounded of several elements; composition; combination; compound. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. composition, fr. L. compositio. See Composite. ] 1. The act or art of composing, or forming a whole or integral, by placing together and uniting different things, parts, or ingredients. In specific uses: (a) The invention or combination of the parts of any literary work or discourse, or of a work of art; as, the composition of a poem or a piece of music. “The constant habit of elaborate composition.” Macaulay. (b) (Fine Arts) The art or practice of so combining the different parts of a work of art as to produce a harmonious whole; also, a work of art considered as such. See 4, below. (c) The act of writing for practice in a language, as English, Latin, German, etc. (d) (Print.) The setting up of type and arranging it for printing. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The state of being put together or composed; conjunction; combination; adjustment. [ 1913 Webster ]

View them in composition with other things. I. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

The elementary composition of bodies. Whewell. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A mass or body formed by combining two or more substances; as, a chemical composition. [ 1913 Webster ]

A composition that looks . . . like marble. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A literary, musical, or artistic production, especially one showing study and care in arrangement; -- often used of an elementary essay or translation done as an educational exercise. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Consistency; accord; congruity. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

There is no composition in these news
That gives them credit. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Mutual agreement to terms or conditions for the settlement of a difference or controversy; also, the terms or conditions of settlement; agreement. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thus we are agreed:
I crave our composition may be written. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Law) The adjustment of a debt, or avoidance of an obligation, by some form of compensation agreed on between the parties; also, the sum or amount of compensation agreed upon in the adjustment. [ 1913 Webster ]

Compositions for not taking the order of knighthood. Hallam. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cleared by composition with their creditors. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. Synthesis as opposed to analysis. [ 1913 Webster ]

The investigation of difficult things by the method of analysis ought ever to precede the method of composition. Sir I. Newton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Composition cloth, a kind of cloth covered with a preparation making it waterproof. --
Composition deed, an agreement for composition between a debtor and several creditors. --
Composition plane (Crystallog.), the plane by which the two individuals of a twin crystal are united in their reserved positions. --
Composition of forces (Mech.), the finding of a single force (called the resultant) which shall be equal in effect to two or more given forces (called the components) when acting in given directions. Herbert. --
Composition metal, an alloy resembling brass, which is sometimes used instead of copper for sheathing vessels; -- also called Muntz metal and yellow metal. --
Composition of proportion (Math.), an arrangement of four proportionals so that the sum of the first and second is to the second as the sum of the third and fourth to the fourth. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. compositivus. ] Having the quality of entering into composition; compounded. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L., an arranger. ] 1. One who composes or sets in order. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Print.) One who sets type and arranges it for use. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Bot.) Belonging to the Compositæ; composite. [ R. ] Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. contra- + position: cf. f. conterposition. ] 1. A placing over against; opposite position. [ Obs. ] F. Potter. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Logic) A so-called immediate inference which consists in denying the original subject of the contradictory predicate; e. g.: Every S is P; therefore, no Not-P is S. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. de- (intens.) + composite. ] 1. Compounded more than once; compounded with things already composite. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) See Decompound, a., 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Anything decompounded. [ 1913 Webster ]

Decomposites of three metals or more. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. de- (in sense 3 intensive) + composition: cf. F. décomposition. Cf. Decomposition. ] 1. The act or process of resolving the constituent parts of a compound body or substance into its elementary parts; separation into constituent part; analysis; the decay or dissolution consequent on the removal or alteration of some of the ingredients of a compound; disintegration; as, the decomposition of wood, rocks, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The state of being reduced into original elements. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Repeated composition; a combination of compounds. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Decomposition of forces. Same as Resolution of forces, under Resolution. --
Decomposition of light, the division of light into the prismatic colors. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. causing organic decay. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Deposited; p. pr. & vb. n. Depositing. ] [ L. depositus, p. p. of deponere. See Depone, and cf. Deposit, n. ] 1. To lay down; to place; to put; to let fall or throw down (as sediment); as, a crocodile deposits her eggs in the sand; the waters deposited a rich alluvium. [ 1913 Webster ]

The fear is deposited in conscience. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To lay up or away for safe keeping; to put up; to store; as, to deposit goods in a warehouse. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To lodge in some one's hands for safe keeping; to commit to the custody of another; to intrust; esp., to place in a bank, as a sum of money subject to order. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To lay aside; to rid one's self of. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

If what is written prove useful to you, to the depositing that which I can not but deem an error. Hammond. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Both this verb and the noun following were formerly written deposite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. depositum, fr. depositus, p. p. of deponere: cf. F. dépôt, OF. depost. See Deposit, v. t., and cf. Depot. ] 1. That which is deposited, or laid or thrown down; as, a deposit in a flue; especially, matter precipitated from a solution (as the siliceous deposits of hot springs), or that which is mechanically deposited (as the mud, gravel, etc., deposits of a river). [ 1913 Webster ]

The deposit already formed affording to the succeeding portion of the charged fluid a basis. Kirwan. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mining) A natural occurrence of a useful mineral under the conditions to invite exploitation. Raymond. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. That which is placed anywhere, or in any one's hands, for safe keeping; something intrusted to the care of another; esp., money lodged with a bank or banker, subject to order; anything given as pledge or security. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Law) (a) A bailment of money or goods to be kept gratuitously for the bailor. (b) Money lodged with a party as earnest or security for the performance of a duty assumed by the person depositing. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A place of deposit; a depository. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Bank of deposit. See under Bank. --
In deposit, or
On deposit, in trust or safe keeping as a deposit; as, coins were received on deposit. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Depositaries [ L. depositarius, fr. deponere. See Deposit. ] 1. One with whom anything is lodged in the trust; one who receives a deposit; -- the correlative of depositor. [ 1913 Webster ]

I . . . made you my guardians, my depositaries. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The depositaries of power, who are mere delegates of the people. J. S. Mill. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A storehouse; a depository. Bp. Hurd. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Law) One to whom goods are bailed, to be kept for the bailor without a recompense. Kent. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. depositio, fr. deponere: cf. F. déposition. See Deposit. ] 1. The act of depositing or deposing; the act of laying down or thrown down; precipitation. [ 1913 Webster ]

The deposition of rough sand and rolled pebbles. H. Miller. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of bringing before the mind; presentation. [ 1913 Webster ]

The influence of princes upon the dispositions of their courts needs not the deposition of their examples, since it hath the authority of a known principle. W. Montagu. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The act of setting aside a sovereign or a public officer; deprivation of authority and dignity; displacement; removal. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ A deposition differs from an abdication, an abdication being voluntary, and a deposition compulsory. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. That which is deposited; matter laid or thrown down; sediment; alluvial matter; as, banks are sometimes depositions of alluvial matter. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. An opinion, example, or statement, laid down or asserted; a declaration. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Law) The act of laying down one's testimony in writing; also, testimony laid or taken down in writing, under oath or affirmation, before some competent officer, and in reply to interrogatories and cross-interrogatories.

Syn. -- Deposition, Affidavit. Affidavit is the wider term. It denotes any authorized ex parte written statement of a person, sworn to or affirmed before some competent magistrate. It is made without cross-examination, and requires no notice to an opposing party. It is generally signed by the party making it, and may be drawn up by himself or any other person. A deposition is the written testimony of a witness, taken down in due form of law, and sworn to or affirmed by the deponent. It must be taken before some authorized magistrate, and upon a prescribed or reasonable notice to the opposing party, that may attend and cross-examine. It is generally written down from the mouth of the witness by the magistrate, or some person for him, and in his presence. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L., fr. deponere. See Depone. ] One who makes a deposit, especially of money in a bank; -- the correlative of depository. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Depositories 1. A place where anything is deposited for sale or keeping; as, warehouse is a depository for goods; a clerk's office is a depository for records. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One with whom something is deposited; a depositary. [ 1913 Webster ]

I am the sole depository of my own secret, and it shall perish with me. Junius. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L. ] Deposit. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of depositing; deposition. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Inconsistency; discordance. [ Obs. ] Donne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Disposition. ] Disposed. [ Obs. ] Glanvill. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. disposition, dispositio, fr. disponere to dispose; dis- + ponere to place. See Position, and cf. Dispone. ] 1. The act of disposing, arranging, ordering, regulating, or transferring; application; disposal; as, the disposition of a man's property by will. [ 1913 Webster ]

Who have received the law by the disposition of angels. Acts vii. 53. [ 1913 Webster ]

The disposition of the work, to put all things in a beautiful order and harmony, that the whole may be of a piece. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The state or the manner of being disposed or arranged; distribution; arrangement; order; as, the disposition of the trees in an orchard; the disposition of the several parts of an edifice. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Tendency to any action or state resulting from natural constitution; nature; quality; as, a disposition in plants to grow in a direction upward; a disposition in bodies to putrefaction. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Conscious inclination; propension or propensity. [ 1913 Webster ]

How stands your disposition to be married? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Natural or prevailing spirit, or temperament of mind, especially as shown in intercourse with one's fellow-men; temper of mind. “A man of turbulent disposition.” Hallam. “He is of a very melancholy disposition.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

His disposition led him to do things agreeable to his quality and condition wherein God had placed him. Strype. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Mood; humor. [ 1913 Webster ]

As I perchance hereafter shall think meet
To put an antic disposition on. Shak.

Syn. -- Disposal; adjustment; regulation; arrangement; distribution; order; method; adaptation; inclination; propensity; bestowment; alienation; character; temper; mood. -- Disposition, Character, Temper. Disposition is the natural humor of a person, the predominating quality of his character, the constitutional habit of his mind. Character is this disposition influenced by motive, training, and will. Temper is a quality of the fiber of character, and is displayed chiefly when the emotions, especially the passions, are aroused. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to disposition. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having (such) a disposition; -- used in compounds; as, well-dispositioned. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. dispositif. ] 1. Disposing; tending to regulate; decretive. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

His dispositive wisdom and power. Bates. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Belonging to disposition or natural, tendency. [ Obs. ] “Dispositive holiness.” Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a dispositive manner; by natural or moral disposition. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

Do dispositively what Moses is recorded to have done literally, . . . break all the ten commandments at once. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. See Disposition. ] 1. A disposer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Astrol.) The planet which is lord of the sign where another planet is. [ Obs. ] Crabb. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem. & Physics) A body which passes to the negative pole in electrolysis.

a. 1. (Physics) Of such a nature relatively to some other associated body or bodies, as to tend to the negative pole of a voltaic battery, in electrolysis, while the associated body tends to the positive pole; -- the converse or correlative of electro-negative. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ An element that is electro-positive in one compound may be electro-negative in another, and vice versa. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Chem.) Hence: Positive; metallic; basic; -- distinguished from negative, nonmetallic, or acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. 1. to set forth reasons; to explain or expound. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. to make external.
Syn. -- externalize, externalise. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. expositio, fr. exponere, expositum: cf. F. exposition. See Expound. ] 1. The act of exposing or laying open; a setting out or displaying to public view. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of expounding or of laying open the sense or meaning of an author, or a passage; explanation; interpretation; the sense put upon a passage; a law, or the like, by an interpreter; hence, a work containing explanations or interpretations; a commentary. [ 1913 Webster ]

You know the law; your exposition
Hath been most sound. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Situation or position with reference to direction of view or accessibility to influence of sun, wind, etc.; exposure; as, an easterly exposition; an exposition to the sun. [ Obs. ] Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A public exhibition or show, as of industrial and artistic productions; as, the Paris Exposition of 1878. [ A Gallicism ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Serving to explain; expository. Bp. Pearson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. See Expound. ] One who, or that which, expounds or explains; an expounder; a commentator. Bp. Horsley. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to, or containing, exposition; serving to explain; explanatory; illustrative; exegetical. [ 1913 Webster ]

A glossary or expository index to the poetical writers. Johnson.

n. def>A worldwide system of electronic navigation in which a vessel, aircraft or missile determines its latitude and longitude by measuring the transmission time from several orbiting satellites. GPS is more precise than any other navigation system available, yielding position accurate within 10 meters 95% of the time.
Syn. -- GPS.
[ RH ]

The precision of the GPS is dependent upon the very high timing accuracy of atomic clocks. Although the military originally intentionally degraded the signal and thus the accuracy for civilian users, GPS was nevertheless more precise than any other navigation system available. In 2000, President Clinton issued an executive order discontinuing the degrading of the signal for civilians. [ RH ]

On June 26, 1993 . . . the U.S. Air Force launched the 24th Navstar satellite into orbit, completing a network of 24 satellites known as the Global Positioning System, or GPS. With a GPS receiver that costs less than a few hundred dollars you can instantly learn your location on the planet -- your latitude, longitude, and even altitude -- to within a few hundred feet.
This incredible new technology was made possible by a combination of scientific and engineering advances, particularly development of the world's most accurate timepieces: atomic clocks that are precise to within a billionth of a second. https://web.archive.org/web/20011125121826/http://www4.nationalacademies.org/beyond/beyonddiscovery.nsf/web/gps?OpenDocument [ PJC ]

n. [ F., fr. L. impositio the application of a name to a thing. See Impone. ] 1. The act of imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding, and the like. “From imposition of strict laws.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Made more solemn by the imposition of hands. Hammond. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is imposed, levied, or enjoined; charge; burden; injunction; tax. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Eng. Univ.) An extra exercise enjoined on students as a punishment. T. Warton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. An excessive, arbitrary, or unlawful exaction; hence, a trick or deception put on laid on others; cheating; fraud; delusion; imposture. [ 1913 Webster ]

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Eccl.) The act of laying on the hands as a religious ceremoy, in ordination, confirmation, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Print.) The act or process of imosing pages or columns of type. See Impose, v. t., 4.

Syn. -- Deceit; fraud; imposture. See Deception. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not apposite; not fit or suitable; not pertinent. -- In*ap"po*site*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

a. [ L. incompositus. See Composite. ] Not composite; uncompounded; simple. [ 1913 Webster ]

Incomposite numbers. See Prime numbers, under Prime. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. indisposition. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The state of being indisposed; disinclination; as, the indisposition of two substances to combine. [ 1913 Webster ]

A general indisposition towards believing. Atterbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A slight disorder or illness. [ 1913 Webster ]

Rather as an indisposition in health than as any set sickness. Hayward. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Infra + position. ] A situation or position beneath. Kane. [ 1913 Webster ]