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Composition or Compositions may refer to:

Arts and literature

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

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

Composition of 1867, Austro-Hungarian/German history, (Ausgleich)
Committee for Compounding with Delinquents, English Civil War
Composition in the Tudor conquest of Ireland
- Composition of Connacht

Mathematics

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: $N(xy)=N(x)N(y)$
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

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+'''Composition''' or '''Compositions''' may refer to:
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+==Arts and literature==
-'''Composition''' can refer to:
+*[[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
-==Composition in art==
+==Computer science==
+*[[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==
-In the fine [[art]]s, compostion may refer to any of the follwoing:
+*[[Composition of 1867]], Austro-Hungarian/German history, (''Ausgleich'')
+*[[Committee for Compounding with Delinquents]], English Civil War
+*Composition in the [[Tudor conquest of Ireland#Solutions|Tudor conquest of Ireland]]
+**[[Composition of Connacht]]
+==Mathematics==
-* [[Composition (visual arts)]]
+*[[Binary function]], or law of composition
-* [[Musical composition]]
+*[[Function composition]], an operation on mathematical functions that yields a single function
-* [[MIDI composition]]
+*[[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==
-* In [[literature]], [[oratory]], and [[rhetoric]], [[composition (language)|composition]] refers, as the etymology of the word quite literally indicates, to the "putting (words) together" to produce a work of spoken tradition or written literature.  This can be in the form of [[drama]], [[essay]], [[oratory]], [[poetry]], or [[prose]].
+*[[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==
-==Composition in [[law]]==
+*[[Compo (disambiguation)]]
+*[[Component (disambiguation)]]
+*[[Composite (disambiguation)]]
+*[[Compound (disambiguation)]]
+*[[Decomposition (disambiguation)]]
+{{Disambiguation}}
-* In [[law]], with special reference to [[Early Germanic Law]], see [[composition (Germanic law)]].  With reference to the modern period, see [[Ausgleich]], also called the Composition of 1867.
-==Composition in manufacturing==
-* In [[manufacturing]], composition refers to the types and amounts of the various materials used in a [[product (business)|product]]; e.g., [[metal]]s, [[fabric]]s, [[glass]], [[wood]], [[plastic]]s, [[ceramic]]s, etc.
-==Composition in the formal sciences==
-* In [[mathematics]], [[function composition]] is an [[operation]] that takes two (or more) [[function (mathematics)|function]]s as arguments and gives a function as the result.  More generally, [[relation composition]] is an operation that takes two or more [[relation (mathematics)|relation]]s as arguments and gives a relation as the result.
-* In [[number theory]], a [[composition (number theory)|composition]] is similar to a [[Integer partition|partition]], except that order matters.
-* In [[computer science]], [[composition (computer science)|composition]] is an act or result of combining simpler [[object (computer science)|object]]s like [[Datatype|data type]]s into more complex data types, or [[function (computer science)|function]] calls into calling functions.
-==Composition in the natural sciences==
-* In [[natural science]], [[composition (natural science)|composition]] is the proportion and combination of certain [[chemical element|elements]] to form a [[chemical substance|substance]].
-* In [[chemistry]], composition is the nature and amounts of the various [[chemical elements|atoms]] that make up a [[chemical compound]], and of the [[chemical substance|substances]] that make up a [[physical body|body]] or [[system]].
-* In [[geology]], ...
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