am i right in saying that definite composition is a composition in which there is only one single component present.

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What you said is not good. It is incomplete statement or wrong.

So follow below statement.

"In chemistry, the law of definite proportion, sometimes called Proust's law or the law of definite composition, or law of constant composition states that a given chemical compound always contains its component elements in fixed ratio (by mass) and does not depend on its source and method of preparation".

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