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'''Composition''' or '''Compositions''' may refer to:
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==Arts and literature==
'''Composition''' deals with the bits and pieces that make up things.
*[[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)|''Composition'' (Peeters)]], a 1921 painting by Jozef Peeters
*[[Composition studies]], the professional field of writing instruction
*[[Compositions (album)|''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==
* [[Structure]]
*[[Compose key]], a key on a computer keyboard
* [[Chemistry]] and [[physics]] deal with the composition of materials
*[[Compositing window manager]] a component of a computer's graphical user interface that draws windows and/or their borders
* In [[computer science]], a '''composition''' is a manner to form data structures with elements where the structure contains [[data object]]s or other structures, namely the structure is in the relationship of "has a", rather than "is a", or one-to-one correspondence.
*[[Function composition (computer science)]], an act or mechanism to combine simple functions to build more complicated ones
* In [[mathematics]], [[functional composition]] is a means of creating a new function from two existing functions; in [[number theory]], a [[composition (number theory)|composition]] is similar to a [[Partition function (number theory)|partition]], except that order matters.
*[[Object composition]], combining simpler data types into more complex data types, or function calls into calling functions


==History==
== Composition in [[art]] ==
*[[Composition of 1867]], Austro-Hungarian/German history, (''Ausgleich'')
* [[Writing]]: [[Literature]] and [[Poetry]]
*[[Committee for Compounding with Delinquents]], English Civil War
* [[Musical composition]]
*Composition in the [[Tudor conquest of Ireland#Solutions|Tudor conquest of Ireland]]
* [[MIDI composition]]
* [[composition (visual arts)]]
**[[Composition of Connacht]]


==Mathematics==
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*[[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: <math>N(x y) = N(x) N(y)</math>
*[[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==
*[[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

==See also==
*[[Compo (disambiguation)]]
*[[Component (disambiguation)]]
*[[Composite (disambiguation)]]
*[[Compound (disambiguation)]]
*[[Decomposition (disambiguation)]]

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Latest revision as of 02:34, 16 May 2024

Composition or Compositions may refer to:

Arts and literature

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Computer science

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History

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Mathematics

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Other uses

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  • 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

See also

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