the creation of beautiful or significant things; "art does not need to be innovative to be good"; "I was never any good at art"; "he said that architecture is the art of wasting space beautifully"
the products of human creativity; works of art collectively; "an art exhibition"; "a fine collection of art"
a superior skill that you can learn by study and practice and observation; "the art of conversation"; "it's quite an art"
any structure that branches out from a central support
the representation of a figure or solid on a plane as it would look from a particular direction
a prediction made by extrapolating from past observations
the projection of an image from a film onto a screen
the acoustic phenomenon that gives sound a penetrating quality; "our ukuleles have been designed to have superior sound and projection"; "a prime ingredient of public speaking is projection of the voice"
(psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your own traits and emotions are attributed to someone else
any solid convex shape that juts out from something
the act of arranging and adapting a piece of music
an organized structure for arranging or classifying; "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"
an orderly grouping (of things or persons) considered as a unit; the result of arranging; "a flower arrangement"
(mathematics) calculation of the value of a function between the values already known
a message (spoken or written) that is introduced or inserted; "with the help of his friend's interpolations his story was eventually told"; "with many insertions in the margins"
something less than the whole of a human artifact; "the rear part of the house"; "glue the two parts together"
a line of scalp that can be seen when sections of hair are combed in opposite directions; "his part was right in the middle"
in so far as the actor specified is concerned; "it requires vigilance on our part"; "they resisted every effort on his part"
one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole; "the written part of the exam"; "the finance section of the company"; "the BBC's engineering division"
the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music; "he tried to sing the tenor part"
a portion of a natural object; "they analyzed the river into three parts"; "he needed a piece of granite"
something determined in relation to something that includes it; "he wanted to feel a part of something bigger than himself"; "I read a portion of the manuscript"; "the smaller component is hard to reach"
the act of subtracting (removing a part from the whole); "he complained about the subtraction of money from their paychecks"
an arithmetic operation in which the difference between two numbers is calculated; "the subtraction of three from four leaves one"; "four minus three equals one"
any of a series of musical tones whose frequencies are integral multiples of the frequency of a fundamental
a tone that is a component of a complex sound
relating to vibrations that occur as a result of vibrations in a nearby body; "sympathetic vibration"
of or relating to harmony as distinct from melody and rhythm; "subtleties of harmonic change and tonality"- Ralph Hill
of or relating to the branch of acoustics that studies the composition of musical sounds; "the sound of the resonating cavity cannot be the only determinant of the harmonic response"
an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of division; the product of two numbers is computed; "the multiplication of four by three gives twelve"; "four times three equals twelve"
a multiplicative increase; "repeated copying leads to a multiplication of errors"; "this multiplication of cells is a natural correlate of growth"