Composition

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Composition can refer to:

• Composition (visual arts), the plan, placement or arrangement of the elements of art in a work
• Composition (language), in literature, oratory, and rhetoric, producing a work of spoken tradition or written literature
• Composition (number theory), a way of writing an integer as a sum of positive integers
• Composition (computer science), combining simpler data types into more complex data types, or function calls into calling functions
• Composition (natural science), the proportion and combination of certain elements to form a substance
• Function composition, in mathematics, an operation that takes functions and gives a single function as the result
• Function composition in computer science, an act or mechanism to combine simple functions to build more complicated ones
• Relation composition, in mathematics, an operation that takes relations and gives a single relation as the result
• Musical composition, an original piece of music
• Composition studies, the professional field of writing instruction
• MIDI composition

[edit] See also

• 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.

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