Composition may refer to:
- Composition (logical fallacy), in which one assumes that a whole has a property solely because its various parts have that property
- Compounding is also known as composition in linguistic literature
- in law
- Composition, an agreement or compromise by which a creditor or group of creditors accepts partial payment from a debtor
- 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
- Compositing window manager a component of a computer's graphical user interface that draws windows and/or their borders
- 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
- in the arts
- Composition (visual arts), the plan, placement or arrangement of the elements of art in a work
- Composition roller, cast from a hide glue and molasses used in brayers and inking rollers for letterpress and other relief printing
- Composition (language), in literature, oratory, and rhetoric, producing a work of spoken tradition or written literature
- Musical composition, an original piece of music and its creation
- Composition studies, the professional field of writing instruction
- Dance composition, practice and teaching of choreography
- Digital compositing, the practice of digitally piecing together a video
- Composition doll, a doll made of a wood based composite material
- in chemistry
- Compositional information, which is different than sequential information. See Gard model.
- in nutrition science
- Food composition
Famous quotes containing the word composition:
“Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
“If I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing ... I do not understand it. I feel it as a torture, which I must get rid of, but never as a pleasure. On the contrary, I think composition a great pain.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“Since body and soul are radically different from one another and belong to different worlds, the destruction of the body cannot mean the destruction of the soul, any more than a musical composition can be destroyed when the instrument is destroyed.”
—Oscar Cullman. Immortality of the Soul or Resurrection of the Dead? The Witness of the New Testament, ch. 1, Epworth Press (1958)