ensemble (redirected from tout ensemble)

ensemble

1. 

a. the cast of a play other than the principals; supporting players

b. (as modifier): an ensemble role

2. Music

a. a group of soloists singing or playing together

b. (as modifier): an ensemble passage

3. Music the degree of precision and unity exhibited by a group of instrumentalists or singers performing together

4. Physics

a. a set of systems (such as a set of collections of atoms) that are identical in all respects apart from the motions of their constituents

b. a single system (such as a collection of atoms) in which the properties are determined by the statistical behaviour of its constituents

5. (of a film or play) involving several separate but often interrelated story lines

6. involving no individual star but several actors whose roles are of equal importance

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ensemble [än′säm·bəl]

(statistical mechanics)

A collection of systems of particles used to describe an individual system; time averages of quantities describing the individual system are found by averaging over the systems in the ensemble at a fixed time.