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See also: Ensemble
English
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Noun
ensemble (plural ensembles)
- A group of separate things that contribute to a coordinated whole.
- (fashion) A coordinated costume or outfit; a suit.
- (collective) A group of musicians, dancers, actors, etc who perform together; e.g. the chorus of a ballet company.
- 12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
- On paper, Continental Drift boasts a jaw-dropping voice cast, including but not limited to Jennifer Lopez, Patrick Stewart, Wanda Sykes, Aziz Ansari, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Nicki Minaj, Drake, and Alan Tudyk. But in practice, the overstuffed ensemble leaves the cast no room to distinguish themselves, and directors Steve Martino and Michael Thurmeier don’t seem interested in coaxing performances that might render their money stars less identifiable.
- 12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
- (Can we add an example for this sense?) (music) A piece for several instrumentalists or vocalists.
- (mathematics, physics) A probability distribution for the state of the system.
- (machine learning) A supervised learning algorithm combining multiple hypotheses.
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Translations
group of separate things that contribute to a coordinated whole
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a coordinated costume or outfit; a suit
group of musicians, dancers etc. who perform together; the chorus of a ballet company
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piece for several instrumentalists or vocalists
mathematics: probability distribution for the state of the system
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Verb
ensemble (third-person singular simple present ensembles, present participle ensembling, simple past and past participle ensembled)
- To put together in a coordinated whole.
- (music) To perform in a musical ensemble.
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Noun
ensemble n (plural ensembles, diminutive ensembletje n)
Derived terms
- ensemblemuziek
- theaterensemble
Descendants
- → Indonesian: ansambêl
Finnish
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Noun
ensemble
- ensemble (group of musicians, dancers, actors, etc who perform together)
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