Meaning of ensemble in English

ensemble

/ˌɒnˈsɒm.bəl/ us

/ˌɑːnˈsɑːm.bəl/

a group of things or people acting or taken together as a whole, especially a group of musicians who regularly play together:

The Mozart Ensemble is/are playing at Carnegie Hall tonight.

whole ensemble She bought a dress and matching hat, gloves, and shoes - in fact the whole ensemble.

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ensemble

noun [ C ]

/ɑnˈsɑm·bəl, ɑ̃-/

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a group of people who perform music together, or a collection of things intended to be used together:

a woodwind ensemble

I admired her ensemble of coat, hat, and shoes.

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Examples of ensemble

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It is worth examining an ensemble of feature vectors to maximise the creative potential of the system.

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This confirms our thesis that by varying the content of the plasma probabilistic ensemble one may advance diver se opinions regarding some physical phenomena.

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How will this sonic presence of the instrument work within the context of the whole ensemble?

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Within its half-hour duration, each ensemble performs nine musical statements or 'messages' which are sent to the others.

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Quantification of modelling uncertainties in a large ensemble of climate change simulations.

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Solvated ensemble averaging in the calculation of partial atomic charges.

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I learned to comprehend the museum itself as an artistic and indirectly political ensemble in a complex historical and economic setting.

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Human beings living in the different regions of our planet share all the diseases of that area, the ensemble of viruses, bacteria and parasites.

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They found that the exercises engendered rhythm, balance, spatial awareness, and receptivity within their ensemble.

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So far, the exercises have an obvious value to actor training and possibly to ensemble rehearsal.

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Factually, the idea of the ensemble method had exerted a key influence on the formulation of the most fundamental of the plasma physical theoretical notions.

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The tape recorders, in essence, become contributing members of a performing ensemble.

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As a consequence, viral populations are heterogeneous and dynamic structures composed by ensembles of different genomes evolving in response to environmental alterations.

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A sergeant, three drummers, and ninety-eight soldiers rounded out the ensemble of supernumeraries, constituting a vast expense.

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Ensemble has continued to evolve, often in dramatic ways.

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Collocations with ensemble

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brass ensemble

Sheldon (1991) presented university students with a half-minute excerpt of a piece arranged for brass ensemble that featured a constant or changing tempo.

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chamber ensemble

The score requires ten players, divided into part jazz ensemble (saxophone, trombone, drums bass and piano), part classical chamber ensemble (clarinet and strings).

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choral ensemble

A strong core would have provided stability in an otherwise flexible choral ensemble, the additional members of which changed from opera to opera.

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Translations of ensemble

in Chinese (Traditional)

全體，整體, 劇團, （尤指）樂團…

Meaning of ensemble in English

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