Composition

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Composition can refer to:

• Composition (logical fallacy), a fallacy of ambiguation in which one assumes that a whole has a property solely because its various parts have that property
• 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
• Compounding is also known as composition in linguistic literature
• in computer science
  • Object composition, combining simpler data types into more complex data types, or function calls into calling functions
  • Function composition (computer science), an act or mechanism to combine simple functions to build more complicated ones
• in mathematics
  • 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
  • A law of composition, usually called a binary function
• 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.
• Compose key, a key on a computer keyboard