Composition Explained

Composition or Compositions may refer to:

Arts and literature

Composition (dance), practice and teaching of choreography
Composition (language), in literature and rhetoric, producing a work in spoken tradition and written discourse, to include visuals and digital space
Composition (visual arts), the plan, placement or arrangement of the elements of art in a work
Composition (Peeters), a 1921 painting by Jozef Peeters
Composition studies, the professional field of writing instruction
Compositions (album), an album by Anita Baker
Digital compositing, the practice of digitally piecing together a still image or video
Musical composition, an original piece of music, or the process of creating a new piece

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
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

Binary function, or law of composition
Function composition, an operation on mathematical functions that yields a single function
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:

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

Composition operator, an operator on mathematical functions that yields a single function
Composition of relations, an operation that takes relations and gives a single relation as the result

Chemical composition, the relative amounts of elements that constitute a substance, or the relative amount of substances that constitute a mixture
Composition doll, a doll made of a wood-based composite material
Composition (fine), in legal terminology, a fine accepted in exchange to not prosecute
Composition material
Composition (objects), in philosophy, the relationship between a whole and its parts
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
Fallacy of composition, an informal 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