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1. A person's customary manner of emotional response: complexion, humor, nature, temper, temperament. See be.
2. The combination of emotional, intellectual, and moral qualities that distinguishes an individual: character, complexion, makeup, nature, personality. See be.
3. An inclination to something: bent, bias, cast, leaning, partiality, penchant, predilection, predisposition, proclivity, proneness, propensity, squint, tendency, trend, turn. See approach/retreat, like/dislike.
4. A way or condition of being arranged: arrangement, categorization, classification, deployment, disposal, distribution, formation, grouping, layout, lineup, order, organization, placement, sequence. See order/disorder.

n

Definition: arrangement, management of situation
Antonyms: disarrangement, mismanagement

n. (dispositions) military preparations, in particular the stationing of troops ready for attack or defense: the new strategic dispositions of our forces.

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The arrangements of stops among the keyboards or divisions of a harpsichord or organ.

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A thing has a disposition to become F in a situation G if it is such that were G to come about, it would become F. Dispositions, potentials, or powers are thus certified by the outcomes that would arise in specified circumstances. Dispositional properties are frequently contrasted with categorical ones, thought of as underlying them, and permanently present, whereas dispositions are only realized or manifested in the circumstances specified. Thus a chemical substance is soluble in water if it is such that, were it placed in water, it would dissolve, and the categorical basis of this disposition will be the nature and configuration of its molecules. This way of thinking accords better with a corpuscularean or atomistic philosophy than with modern physical thinking, which finds no categorical basis underlying the notions like that of a charge, or a field, or a probability wave, that fundamentally characterize things, and which are apparently themselves dispositional. The distinction between dispositional and categorical properties is also threatened by the reflection that even solidity and shape, perhaps the best candidates for categorical properties, seem susceptible to a dispositional treatment: solidity in a body is its disposition to exclude other bodies from the region of space that makes its shape. See also counterfactual conditional, finkish.

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Act of disposing; transferring to the care or possession of another. The parting with, alienation of, or giving up of property. The final settlement of a matter and, with reference to decisions announced by a court, a judge's ruling is commonly referred to as disposition, regardless of level of resolution. In criminal procedure, the sentencing or other final settlement of a criminal case. With respect to a mental state, means an attitude, prevailing tendency, or inclination.

Getting rid of an asset or security through a direct sale or some other method.

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(DOD, NATO) 1. Distribution of the elements of a command within an area; usually the exact location of each unit headquarters and the deployment of the forces subordinate to it. 2. A prescribed arrangement of the stations to be occupied by the several formations and single ships of a fleet, or major subdivisions of a fleet, for any purpose, such as cruising, approach, maintaining contact, or battle. 3. A prescribed arrangement of all the tactical units composing a flight or group of aircraft. See also deployment; dispersion. 4. (DOD only) The removal of a patient from a medical treatment facility by reason of return to duty, transfer to another treatment facility, death, or other termination of medical case.

IN BRIEF: A person's usual nature.

A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition. — William Arthur Ward.

Tutor's tip: The old man had a nasty "disposition" (one's temperament) while giving the "deposition" (testimony given under oath) to the attorneys.

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Setting in place.

• d. curve — the graphic representation of changes in the blood concentration of a drug after administration.
• drug d. — getting a drug into its appropriate position in the body and in an appropriate concentration.

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• Aspects and Components of Appearance - disposition: prevailing mood and emotional makeup as revealed through expressions and actions

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - tendens, natur, orden, placering, opstilling, troppefordeling, planlægning, disposition, gave, råderet, ordning

Nederlands (Dutch)
aard, plaatsing, beschikking, strategie

Français (French)
n. - caractère, inclination (à faire), arrangement, naturel, disposition

Deutsch (German)
n. - Wesen, Aufstellung, Disposition, Fügung

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - τακτοποίηση, διευθέτηση, διάταξη, (δια)ρύθμιση, (ψυχική) διάθεση, προδιάθεση ή τάση, χαρακτήρας, ιδιοσυγκρασία, εξουσία

Italiano (Italian)
indole, disposizione

Português (Portuguese)
n. - disposição (f), inclinação (f), humor (m)

Русский (Russian)
нрав, расположение, распоряжение

Español (Spanish)
n. - temperamento, predisposición, colocación, disposición

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - anordning, förberedelse, benägenhet, förfoganderätt, överlåtelse

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
性情, 处理, 处置

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 性情, 處理, 處置

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 배치, 양도, 버릇, ~하고자 하는 의도

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 性癖, 性質, 傾向, 配列, 配備, 天の配剤, 処分, 決着, 譲渡

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) صفات الإنسان الطبيعيه من حيث عقليته وشخصيته, الطباع, الطبع, ميل, نزعه, ترتيب‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮נטייה, זיקה, תכונה, פריסה, מערך, אופי, סידור, הסדר, שליטה‬

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