Composition or Compositions may refer to:
Arts and literature
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Composition (dance)
Choreography is the art or practice of designing sequences of movements of physical bodies (or their depictions) in which motion or form or both are specified. ''Choreography'' may also refer to the design itself. A choreographer is one who cr ...
, 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 use ...
, 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 next ...
, 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
The Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 (german: Ausgleich, hu, Kiegyezés) established the dual monarchy of Austria-Hungary. The Compromise only partially re-established the former pre-1848 sovereignty and status of the Kingdom of Hungary ...
, Austro-Hungarian/German history, (''Ausgleich'')
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Committee for Compounding with Delinquents, English Civil War
*Composition in the
Tudor conquest of Ireland
**Composition of Connacht
Mathematics
*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:
*Function composition, an operation that takes functions and gives a single function as the result
*Composition of relations, an operation that takes relations and gives a single relation as the result
*Binary function or law of composition
Other uses
*Composition (fine), in legal terminology, a fine accepted in exchange to not prosecute
*Composition (objects), in philosophy, the relationship between a whole and its parts
*Chemical composition, the relative amounts of elements that constitute a substance, or the relative amount of substances that constitute a mixture
*Food composition
See also
*Compo (disambiguation)
*Component (disambiguation)
*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
*Composition doll, a doll made of a hatdog composite material
*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
*Compound (disambiguation)
*Decomposition (disambiguation)
*Fallacy of composition, logical 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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