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), 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), an original piece of music and its creation
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Composition (visual arts)
The term composition means "putting together". It can be thought of as the organization of the elements of art according to the principles of art. Composition can apply to any work of art, from music through writing and into photography, that is ...
, 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
Composition studies (also referred to as composition and rhetoric, rhetoric and composition, writing studies, or simply composition) is the professional field of writing, research, and instruction, focusing especially on writing at the college leve ...
, the professional field of writing instruction
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''Compositions'' (album), an album by Anita Baker
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Digital compositing
Digital compositing is the process of digitally assembling multiple images to make a final image, typically for print, motion pictures or screen display. It is the digital analogue of optical film compositing.
Mathematics
The basic operation u ...
, the practice of digitally piecing together a video
Computer science
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Function composition (computer science)
In computer science, function composition is an act or mechanism to combine simple functions to build more complicated ones. Like the usual composition of functions in mathematics, the result of each function is passed as the argument of the ne ...
, an act or mechanism to combine simple functions to build more complicated ones
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Object composition, 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
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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
The Composition of Connacht, or Composition of Connaught and Thomond, was a 1585 agreement between, on the one hand, the Gaelic and Gaelicised chiefs of Connacht and Thomond and, on the other hand, the English Dublin Castle administration of ...
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 ar ...
, 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 involuti ...
, an algebra over a field with composing norm:
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Function composition
In mathematics, function composition is an operation that takes two functions and , and produces a function such that . In this operation, the function is applied to the result of applying the function to . That is, the functions and ...
, 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
In mathematics, a binary function (also called bivariate function, or function of two variables) is a function that takes two inputs.
Precisely stated, a function f is binary if there exists sets X, Y, Z such that
:\,f \colon X \times Y \rightar ...
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Other uses
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Composition (fine), in legal terminology, a fine accepted in exchange to not prosecute
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Composition (objects), 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 Food composition data (FCD) are detailed sets of information on the nutritionally important components of foods and provide values for energy and nutrients including protein, carbohydrates, fat, vitamins and minerals and for other important food com ...
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, 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 Food composition data (FCD) are detailed sets of information on the nutritionally important components of foods and provide values for energy and nutrients including protein, carbohydrates, fat, vitamins and minerals and for other important food com ...
, information on nutritionally important components of food
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