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 (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 still image or video
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Musical composition
Musical composition can refer to an Originality, original piece or work of music, either Human voice, vocal or Musical instrument, instrumental, the musical form, structure of a musical piece or to the process of creating or writing a new pie ...
, an original piece of music, or the process of creating a new piece
Computer science
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Compose key
A compose key (sometimes called multi key) is a key on a computer keyboard that indicates that the following (usually 2 or more) keystrokes trigger the insertion of an alternate character, typically a precomposed character or a symbol.
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, a key on a computer keyboard
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Compositing window manager
A compositing manager, or compositor, is software that provides applications with an off-screen data buffer, buffer for each window, then Compositing, composites these window buffers into an image representing the screen and writes the result into ...
a component of a computer's graphical user interface that draws windows and/or their borders
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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, English Civil War
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Tudor conquest of Ireland
Ireland was conquered by the Tudor monarchs of England in the 16th century. The Anglo-Normans had Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland, conquered swathes of Ireland in the late 12th century, bringing it under Lordship of Ireland, English rule. In t ...
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Composition of Connacht
Mathematics
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Binary function, or law of composition
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Function composition
In mathematics, the composition operator \circ takes two function (mathematics), functions, f and g, and returns a new function h(x) := (g \circ f) (x) = g(f(x)). Thus, the function is function application, applied after applying to . (g \c ...
, an operation on mathematical functions that yields a single function
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Composition (combinatorics), a way of writing a positive integer as a sum of positive integers
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Composition algebra, an algebra over a field with composing norm:
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Composition operator, an operator on mathematical functions that yields a single function
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Composition of relations, an operation that takes relations and gives a single relation as the result
Other uses
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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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Composition doll, a doll made of a wood-based composite material
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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 pe ...
, in legal terminology, a fine accepted in exchange to not prosecute
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Composition material
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Composition (objects), in philosophy, the relationship between a whole and its parts
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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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Fallacy of composition, an informal 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
See also
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Compo (disambiguation)
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Component (disambiguation)
Component may refer to:
In engineering, science, and technology Generic systems
*System components, an entity with discrete structure, such as an assembly or software module, within a system considered at a particular level of analysis
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Composite (disambiguation)
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Compound (disambiguation)
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Decomposition (disambiguation)
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