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composite
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A composite or a composite index is combination of equities or indexes intended to measure the overall market performance over time. A composite index may also be used in the natural or social sciences to summarize complex or multidimensional data or redundant ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Composite \Com*pos"ite\ (?; 277), a. [L. compositus made up of parts, p. p. of componere. See Compound , v. t., and cf. Compost .] Made up of distinct parts or elements; compounded; as, a composite language. Happiness, like air and water . . . is composite. ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a conceptual whole made up of complicated and related parts; "the complex of shopping malls, houses, and roads created a new town" [syn: complex ] considered the most highly evolved dicotyledonous plants, characterized by florets arranged in dense heads ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN career ▪ For some people, a composite career can serve as a bridge from one work life to another. ▪ In other cases, the composite career develops when some one pursues a hobby far enough to turn it into a business. ...
Usage examples of composite.
Jimmy could have wrapped his arms around the composite and aerogel structure and kissed it, he would have.
How many tons of aerogel and composite traveling at how many klicks, and they were letting a teenager land it?
Today, much of the tail assembly on the Boeing 777 and parts of the wings and tail on some Airbus aircraft are made from composites.
He glanced at Askari, who was resting on one knee, an arrow notched to the composite bow.
Interposes between this riparian woodland and the river is often a fringe of the evergreen, shrubby composite called batamote or seepwillow.
King of Finland, the Crown-Prince, and Baron de Becasse arrived together, a composite mass of medals, sashes, and academy palms.
Even if he and the ship had done nothing but sit and wait after they passed through the caesura, eventually the extended composite would have discovered and recovered his lost individual self.
It is that the animal is a composite figure due to the impact upon Viking artists of the realistic Carolingian renderings of lions and other creatures.
She scrunched herself tight up against the corridor wall, watching in awe as the cradles magically filled and emptied again as cargo was shunted back and forth to the large composite ships waiting patiently in orbit above for their cargo to be marshalled and the Rowan to push the result off to its destination planet.
For whereas that notorious Dadaist nude had simply been a composite of events in sequence, a time-lapse of bodily motion as perceived by a single witness, what Argus now experienced was all possible dimensions of the world packed into his spherical visual space.
The thought of more than one death that the composite man is simplified by a series of separating deaths has repeatedly found place.
For sampling the gases in the smokebox of the horizontal return-tubular boiler, a special flue-gas sampler was designed, in order to obtain a composite sample of the gases escaping from the boiler.
They walked away from the house site, picking their way through piles of construction materials, some of which, like greenboard, polyester insulation, and composite board, had never before been seen on this world.
Along the dividing line the two types of the population, of course, merged and here was produced and is still to be found the Jerseyman of the composite type.
There are larger yellow Composites, but either they are much later, or they are not perennial species, and otherwise this one differs materially from them.