Composition

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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

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 ( x y ) = N ( x ) N ( y ) {\displaystyle 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

See also

  • Compo (disambiguation)
  • Component (disambiguation)
  • Composite (disambiguation)
  • Compound (disambiguation)
  • Decomposition (disambiguation)
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