Composition or Compositions may refer to:

Arts and literature

Composition (dance) Choreography is the art of designing sequences of movements of physical bodies (or their depictions) in which Motion (physics), motion or Visual appearance, form or both are specified. ''Choreography'' may also refer to the design itself. A chor ...

, practice and teaching of choreography *

Composition (language) The term composition (from Latin ''com-'' "with" and ''ponere'' "to place") as it refers to writing, can describe authors' decisions about, processes for designing, and sometimes the final product of, a composed linguistic work. In original use, ...

, in literature and rhetoric, producing a work in spoken tradition and written discourse, to include visuals and digital space *

Composition (visual arts) The term composition means "putting together". It can be thought of as the organization of art. Composition can apply to any work of art, from music through writing and into photography, that is arranged using conscious thought. In the visual art ...

, the plan, placement or arrangement of the elements of art in a work * ''Composition'' (Peeters), a 1921 painting by Jozef Peeters *

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 * ''Compositions'' (album), an album by Anita Baker *

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. It's part of VFX processing. Ma ...

, the practice of digitally piecing together a still image or video *

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

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. For insta ...

, a key on a computer keyboard *

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 *

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 *

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 ki ...

, combining simpler data types into more complex data types, or function calls into calling functions

History

* Composition of 1867, Austro-Hungarian/German history, (''Ausgleich'') * Committee for Compounding with Delinquents, English Civil War *Composition in the

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 ...

** Composition of Connacht

Mathematics

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 \right ...

, or law of composition *

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 *

Composition (combinatorics) In mathematics, a composition of an integer ''n'' is a way of writing ''n'' as the summation, sum of a sequence of (strictly) positive integers. Two sequences that differ in the order of their terms define different compositions of their sum, whi ...

, a way of writing a positive integer as a sum of positive integers *

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:

N(x y) = N(x) N(y)

* Composition operator, an operator on mathematical functions that yields a single function *

Composition of relations In the mathematics of binary relations, the composition of relations is the forming of a new binary relation from two given binary relations ''R'' and ''S''. In the calculus of relations, the composition of relations is called relative multiplica ...

, an operation that takes relations and gives a single relation as the result

Other uses

Chemical composition A chemical composition specifies the identity, arrangement, and ratio of the chemical elements making up a compound by way of chemical and atomic bonds. Chemical formulas can be used to describe the relative amounts of elements present in a com ...

, the relative amounts of elements that constitute a substance, or the relative amount of substances that constitute a mixture *

Composition doll A composition doll is a doll made partially or wholly out of Composition (manufacturing material), composition, a composite material composed of sawdust, glue, and other materials such as cornstarch, resin and wood flour. The first composition dol ...

, a doll made of a wood-based composite material *

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 *

Composition material A composite or composite material (also composition material) is a material which is produced from two or more constituent materials. These constituent materials have notably dissimilar chemical or physical properties and are merged to create a ...

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, th ...

, in philosophy, the relationship between a whole and its parts *

Composition ornament Composition ornament ("compo") is a mouldable thermoplastic compound, consisting of powdered chalk mixed with collagen (hide glue), resin (pine rosin) and linseed oil; worked either by hand or more usually pressed into moulds to produce decorative ...

or "compo", moulded resin mixture used to form decorative mouldings, particularly for picture frames *

Composition roller A composition roller is a tool used in letterpress printing to apply ink to a bed of type in a printing press. It consists of a cylinder made of a substance known as "roller composition" or simply "composition", a mixture of hide glue and sugar (i ...

, cast from a hide glue and molasses used in brayers and inking rollers for letterpress and other relief printing *

Fallacy of composition The fallacy of composition is an informal fallacy that arises when one inference, 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; therefo ...

, an informal fallacy in which one assumes that a whole has a property solely because its various parts have that property *

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 c ...

, information on nutritionally important components of food

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