composition

Definitions

• The act of putting together; assembly.
• A mixture or compound; the result of composing.
• The proportion of different parts to make a whole.
• The general makeup of a thing or person.
• (obsolete) An agreement or treaty used to settle differences; later especially, an agreement to stop hostilities; a truce.
• (obsolete) A payment of money in order to clear a liability or obligation; a settling or fine.
• (legal) an agreement or compromise by which a creditor or group of creditors accepts partial payment from a debtor.
• An essay.
• (linguistics) The formation of compound words from separate words.
• A work of music, literature or art.
• (printing) Typesetting.
• (mathematics) Applying a function to the result of another.
• (physics) The compounding of two velocities or forces into a single equivalent velocity or force.
• (obsolete) Consistency; accord; congruity.
• Synthesis as opposed to analysis.
• (painting) The arrangement and flow of elements in a picture.
• (object-oriented programming) Way to combine simple objects or data types into more complex ones.