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Composition or Compositions may refer to:

Arts and literature[edit]

• 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 (music), an original piece of music and its creation
• 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 video

Computer science[edit]

• 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

History[edit]

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

Mathematics[edit]

• 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: ${\displaystyle N(xy)=N(x)N(y)}$
• 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[edit]

• 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[edit]

• 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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