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montage
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun montage has 1 sense
- montage(n = noun.artifact) collage - a paste-up made by sticking together pieces of paper or photographs to form an artistic image; "he used his computer to make a collage of pictures superimposed on a map" is a kind of paste-up, icon, ikon, image, picture
has particulars: photomontage
OXFORD DICTIONARY
montage, n.
1 a a process of selecting, editing, and piecing together separate sections of cinema or television film to form a continuous whole. b a sequence of such film as a section of a longer film.
2 a the technique of producing a new composite whole from fragments of pictures, words, music, etc. b a composition produced in this way.
1 a a process of selecting, editing, and piecing together separate sections of cinema or television film to form a continuous whole. b a sequence of such film as a section of a longer film.
2 a the technique of producing a new composite whole from fragments of pictures, words, music, etc. b a composition produced in this way.
Etymology
F f. monter MOUNT(1)
THESAURUS
montage
Telephoto, Wirephoto, abstract, abstraction, aerial photograph, altarpiece, black-and-white photograph, block print, candid photograph, cheesecake, chronophotograph, collage, color photograph, color print, copy, cyclorama, daub, diapositive, diptych, engraving, fresco, heliochrome, heliograph, icon, illumination, illustration, image, likeness, miniature, mosaic, mug, mug shot, mural, panorama, photo, photobiography, photochronograph, photograph, photomap, photomicrograph, photomontage, photomural, picture, pinup, portrait, print, representation, reproduction, shot, slide, snap, snapshot, stained glass window, stencil, still, still life, still photograph, tableau, tapestry, telephotograph, transparency, triptych, wall painting
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