I. (ˈ)män.|täzh, -tȧzh noun
( -s )
Etymology: French montage, from monter to mount + -age — more at mount
1.
a. : the act or photographic process of combining several distinct pictures so that they often blend with or into each other to produce a composite picture which may or may not appear to be made up of separate pictures
b. : a picture made by montage
2. : an artistic composition made by combining heterogeneous elements
3.
a. : a style of film editing in which contrasting shots or sequences are juxtaposed for the purpose of suggesting a total idea or impression
b. : an impressionistic sequence of images linked usually by dissolves or superimpositions and introduced into a film or television program to develop a single theme, suggest a state of mind, or bridge a time lapse
4. : a musical composite of heterogeneous themes or fragments usually played in quick succession and used to represent or bridge a gap in the sequence of time
5. : a quick succession of snatches of dialogue, music, and sound effects used as a technique in radio writing
6.
a. : a literary technique in which heterogeneous images, themes, or fragments of ideas are juxtaposed to produce a single total effect
b. : a literary composite made by means of such technique
7. : something felt to resemble a montage
for a few seconds his mind held in montage all the wrecked towns — Norman Mailer
recalls this phase of his childhood as a dizzy montage of whistles, intermeshing gears, ladles spilling ore — R.L.Taylor
II. transitive verb
( -ed/-ing/-s )
: to combine into or depict in a montage