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Definition of Arrangement

1. Noun. The thing arranged or agreed to. "They made arrangements to meet in Chicago"

2. Noun. An orderly grouping (of things or persons) considered as a unit; the result of arranging. "A flower arrangement"

3. Noun. An organized structure for arranging or classifying. "He tried to understand their system of classification"

4. Noun. The spatial property of the way in which something is placed. "The placement of the chairs"

5. Noun. A piece of music that has been adapted for performance by a particular set of voices or instruments.

6. Noun. The act of arranging and adapting a piece of music.

Definition of Arrangement

1. n. The act of arranging or putting in an orderly condition; the state of being arranged or put in order; disposition in suitable form.

Definition of Arrangement

1. Noun. The act of arranging. ¹

2. Noun. The manner of being arranged. ¹

3. Noun. A collection of things that have been arranged. ¹

4. Noun. A particular way in which items are organized. ¹

5. Noun. (context: plural) Preparations for some undertaking. ¹

6. Noun. An agreement. ¹

7. Noun. (music) An adaptation of a piece of music for other instruments, or in another style. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Arrangement

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Medical Definition of Arrangement

1. 1. The act of arranging or putting in an orderly condition; the state of being arranged or put in order; disposition in suitable form. 2. The manner or result of arranging; system of parts disposed in due order; regular and systematic classification; as, arrangement of one's dress; the Linnaean arrangement of plants. 3. Preparatory proceeding or measure; preparation; as, we have made arrangement for receiving company. 4. Settlement; adjustment by agreement; as, the parties have made an arrangement between themselves concerning their disputes; a satisfactory arrangement. 5. The adaptation of a composition to voices or instruments for which it was not originally written. A piece so adapted; a transcription; as, a pianoforte arrangement of Beethoven's symphonies; an orchestral arrangement of a song, an opera, or the like. Origin: F. Arrangement. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Arrangement

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Literary usage of Arrangement

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1906)
"But their standing must of necessity vary with the different sciences, one half of all the anthropologists having made the arrangement and only two ..."

2. Educational Psychology by Edward Lee Thorndike (1913)
"THE Arrangement OF THE NEURONES Figures 13, 14 and 15 show, more or less schematically, certain cases of the arrangement of neurones in series to form ..."

3. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1892)
""Note on the Functional and Structural Arrangement of Efferent Fibres in the ... J and Soemmering§ all paid considerable attention to the arrangement of the ..."

4. The Book of Tea by Kakuzō Okakura (1906)
"The birth of the Art of Flower Arrangement seems to be simultaneous with that ... Our legends ascribe the first flower arrangement to those early Buddhist ..."

5. First Lessons in Composition: In which the Principles of the Art are by George Payn Quackenbos (1867)
"VARIETY OF Arrangement. How may we obtain variety in a succession of sentences 7 By employing a different arrangement of the words or clauses, ..."

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