zloenie

Zloenie is a term used in several Slavic-language contexts to denote the act or result of combining two or more elements into a single whole. In transliteration without diacritics it appears as zloenie; language-specific forms include złożenie in Polish and slozheniye in Russian. The common root is a verb meaning to fold, put together, or arrange.

In linguistics, zloenie (often written as złożenie in Polish) refers to the process of forming a word or phrase by combining two or more morphemes or words into a new lexical unit. The phenomenon is known as compounding and can be endocentric or exocentric, depending on whether the whole word denotes a category or something else.

In mathematics, zloenie is used to describe the composition of functions, the operation of applying one function to the result of another. If f and g are functions, their composition f ∘ g is a new function defined by f(g(x)).

In other domains, zloenie may refer more generally to the assembly, integration, or layering of components to form a single object, process, or system. The term emphasizes the result of bringing parts together rather than the details of the parts themselves.

See also: composition, function composition, compounding, assembly.