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Composition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Composition
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Composition may refer to:

Arts
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

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1 Arts 2 Computer science 3 Linguistics 4 Mathematics 5 Other 6 See also

Computer science
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
Composition (language), in literature, oratory, and rhetoric, producing a work of spoken tradition or written literature Compounding is also known as composition in linguistic literature

Mathematics
A law of composition, usually called a binary function Composition (number theory), 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

Other
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

See also
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Composition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Early Germanic law, concerning the use of the term composition, or making a payment instead of receiving a punishment. With reference to the modern period, see Ausgleich, also called the Composition of 1867. Compose key, a key on a computer keyboard Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Composition&oldid=556920104" Categories: Disambiguation pages This page was last modified on 26 May 2013 at 21:29. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.

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