Composition
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Composition can refer to:
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Composition in art
In the fine arts, compostion may refer to any of the following:
- In literature, oratory, and rhetoric, composition refers, as the etymology of the word quite literally indicates, to the "putting (words) together" to produce a work of spoken tradition or written literature. This can be in the form of drama, essay, oratory, poetry, or prose.
Composition in education
Composition in law
- In law, with special reference to Germanic law, see the use of the term composition in the article on early Germanic law; it involved making a payment instead of receiving a punishment. With reference to the modern period, see Ausgleich, also called the Composition of 1867.
Composition in manufacturing
- In manufacturing, composition refers to the types and amounts of the various materials used in a product, for example, metals, fabrics, glass, wood, plastics, ceramics, etc.
Composition in the formal sciences
- In mathematics, function composition is an operation that takes two (or more) functions as arguments and gives a function as the result. More generally, relation composition is an operation that takes two or more relations as arguments and gives a relation as the result.
- In number theory, a composition is similar to a partition, except that order matters.
- In computer science, composition is an act or result of combining simpler objects like data types into more complex data types, or function calls into calling functions.
Composition in the natural sciences
- In natural science, composition is the proportion and combination of certain elements to form a substance.
- In chemistry, composition is the nature and amounts of the various atoms that make up a chemical compound, and of the substances that make up a body or system.
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