Composition

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

Computer science

 * 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

History

 * 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

 * 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: $$N(x y) = N(x) N(y)$$
 * 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

Other uses

 * 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