Composition

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Composition or Compositions may refer to:

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• 1 Arts
• 2 Computer science
• 3 Linguistics/Language
• 4 Mathematics
• 5 Law
• 6 History
• 7 Other
• 8 Entertainment
• 9 See also

Arts[edit]

• Composition doll, a doll made of a wood based composite material
• Composition roller, cast from a hide glue and molasses used in brayers and inking rollers for letterpress and other relief printing
• Composition studies, the professional field of writing instruction
• Composition (visual arts), the plan, placement or arrangement of the elements of art in a work
• Dance composition, practice and teaching of choreography
• Digital compositing, the practice of digitally piecing together a video
• Musical composition, an original piece of music and its creation
• Composition ornament or 'compo', moulded resin mixture used to form decorative mouldings, particularly for picture frames.

Computer science[edit]

• 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

Linguistics/Language[edit]

• Composition (language), in literature and rhetoric, producing a work in spoken tradition and written discourse, to include visuals and digital space

Mathematics[edit]

• A law of composition, usually called a binary function
• Composition (combinatorics), a way of writing a positive integer as a sum of positive integers
• Function composition, an operation that takes functions and gives a single function as the result
• Relation composition, an operation that takes relations and gives a single relation as the result

Law[edit]

• Composition (fine), a fine accepted by compounding instead of being prosecuted

History[edit]

• Committee for Compounding with Delinquents, English Civil War
• Composition of 1867, Austro-Hungarian/German history, (Ausgleich)
• Composition in the Tudor conquest of Ireland, such as
  • Composition of Connacht

Other[edit]

• 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

Entertainment[edit]

• Compositions (Anita Baker album)

See also[edit]

• Compound, a disambiguation page for a closely related collection of concepts
• Compose key, a key on a computer keyboard
• Compo