PHYSICAL COMPOSITION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does physical composition mean? 

• PHYSICAL COMPOSITION (noun)
  The noun PHYSICAL COMPOSITION has 1 sense:

1. the way in which someone or something is composed

  Familiarity information: PHYSICAL COMPOSITION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHYSICAL COMPOSITION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The way in which someone or something is composed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

composition; constitution; make-up; makeup; physical composition

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))