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Composition or Compositions may refer to:
Arts and literature
[edit]- Composition (dance), practice and teaching of choreography
- Composition (language), in literature and rhetoric, producing a work in spoken tradition and written discourse, to include visuals and digital space
- Composition (visual arts), the plan, placement or arrangement of the elements of art in a work
- Composition (Peeters), a 1921 painting by Jozef Peeters
- Composition studies, the professional field of writing instruction
- Compositions (album), an album by Anita Baker
- Digital compositing, the practice of digitally piecing together a still image or video
- Musical composition, an original piece of music, or the process of creating a new piece
Computer science
[edit]- Compose key, a key on a computer keyboard
- Compositing window manager a component of a computer's graphical user interface that draws windows and/or their borders
- Function composition (computer science), an act or mechanism to combine simple functions to build more complicated ones
- Object composition, combining simpler data types into more complex data types, or function calls into calling functions
History
[edit]- Composition of 1867, Austro-Hungarian/German history, (Ausgleich)
- Committee for Compounding with Delinquents, English Civil War
- Composition in the Tudor conquest of Ireland
Mathematics
[edit]- Binary function, or law of composition
- Function composition, an operation on mathematical functions that yields a single function
- Composition (combinatorics), a way of writing a positive integer as a sum of positive integers
- Composition algebra, an algebra over a field with composing norm:
- Composition operator, an operator on mathematical functions that yields a single function
- Composition of relations, an operation that takes relations and gives a single relation as the result
Other uses
[edit]- Chemical composition, the relative amounts of elements that constitute a substance, or the relative amount of substances that constitute a mixture
- Composition doll, a doll made of a wood-based composite material
- Composition (fine), in legal terminology, a fine accepted in exchange to not prosecute
- Composition material
- Composition (objects), in philosophy, the relationship between a whole and its parts
- Composition ornament or "compo", moulded resin mixture used to form decorative mouldings, particularly for picture frames
- Composition roller, cast from a hide glue and molasses used in brayers and inking rollers for letterpress and other relief printing
- Fallacy of composition, an informal fallacy in which one assumes that a whole has a property solely because its various parts have that property
- Food composition data, information on nutritionally important components of food