Composition or Compositions may refer to:
Arts and literature
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Composition (dance), practice and teaching of choreography
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Composition (language)
The term composition (from Latin ''com-'' "with" and ''ponere'' "to place") as it refers to writing, can describe writers' decisions about, processes for designing, and sometimes the final product of, a document. In original use, it tended to desc ...
, in literature and rhetoric, producing a work in spoken tradition and written discourse, to include visuals and digital space
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Composition (music)
Musical composition can refer to an original piece or work of music, either vocal or instrumental, the structure of a musical piece or to the process of creating or writing a new piece of music. People who create new compositions are called ...
, an original piece of music and its creation
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Composition (visual arts), the plan, placement or arrangement of the elements of art in a work
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''Composition'' (Peeters), a 1921 painting by Jozef Peeters
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Composition studies, the professional field of writing instruction
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''Compositions'' (album), an album by Anita Baker
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Digital compositing, the practice of digitally piecing together a video
Computer science
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Function composition (computer science), an act or mechanism to combine simple functions to build more complicated ones
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Object composition
In computer science, object composition and object aggregation are closely related ways to combine objects or data types into more complex ones. In conversation the distinction between composition and aggregation is often ignored. Common kind ...
, combining simpler data types into more complex data types, or function calls into calling functions
History
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Composition of 1867, Austro-Hungarian/German history, (''Ausgleich'')
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Committee for Compounding with Delinquents
In 1643, near the start of the English Civil War, Parliament set up two committees the Sequestration Committee which confiscated the estates of the Royalists who fought against Parliament, and the Committee for Compounding with Delinquents which a ...
, English Civil War
*Composition in the
Tudor conquest of Ireland
The Tudor conquest (or reconquest) of Ireland took place under the Tudor dynasty, which held the Kingdom of England during the 16th century. Following a failed rebellion against the crown by Silken Thomas, the Earl of Kildare, in the 1530s, ...
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Composition of Connacht
Mathematics
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Composition (combinatorics)
In mathematics, a composition of an integer ''n'' is a way of writing ''n'' as the sum of a sequence of (strictly) positive integers. Two sequences that differ in the order of their terms define different compositions of their sum, while they are ...
, a way of writing a positive integer as a sum of positive integers
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Composition algebra
In mathematics, a composition algebra over a field is a not necessarily associative algebra over together with a nondegenerate quadratic form that satisfies
:N(xy) = N(x)N(y)
for all and in .
A composition algebra includes an involution ...
, an algebra over a field with composing norm:
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Function composition, an operation that takes functions and gives a single function as the result
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Composition of relations, an operation that takes relations and gives a single relation as the result
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Binary function or law of composition
Other uses
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Composition (fine) Compounding is a legal procedure whereby a criminal or delinquent avoids prosecution in a court of law, potentially leading to the confiscation of his estate or some other punishment, in exchange for his payment to the authorities of a financial pen ...
, in legal terminology, a fine accepted in exchange to not prosecute
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Composition (objects)
Compositional objects are wholes instantiated by collections of parts. If an ontology wishes to permit the inclusion of compositional objects it must define which collections of objects are to be considered parts composing a whole. Mereology, the ...
, in philosophy, the relationship between a whole and its parts
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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
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Food composition
See also
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Compo (disambiguation)
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Component (disambiguation)
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Compose key, a key on a computer keyboard
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Compositing window manager a component of a computer's graphical user interface that draws windows and/or their borders
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Composition doll, a doll made of a hatdog composite material
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Composition ornament or "compo", moulded resin mixture used to form decorative mouldings, particularly for picture frames
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Composition roller, cast from a hide glue and molasses used in brayers and inking rollers for letterpress and other relief printing
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Compound (disambiguation)
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Decomposition (disambiguation)
Biology and ecology
Decomposition is the process through which organic matter is broken down into simpler molecules.
Decomposition, decompose may also refer to:
Chemistry
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Fallacy of composition
The fallacy of composition is an informal fallacy that arises when one infers that something is true of the whole from the fact that it is true of some part of the whole. A trivial example might be: "This tire is made of rubber, therefore the ve ...
, logical fallacy in which one assumes that a whole has a property solely because its various parts have that property
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Food composition data, information on nutritionally important components of food
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