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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Composite \Com*pos"ite\ (?; 277), n. That which is made up of parts or compounded of several elements; composition; combination; compound. [R.]
Composite \Com*pos"ite\ (?; 277), a. [L. compositus made up of parts, p. p. of componere. See Compound, v. t., and cf. Compost.]
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Made up of distinct parts or elements; compounded; as, a composite language.
Happiness, like air and water . . . is composite.
--Landor. (Arch.) Belonging to a certain order which is composed of the Ionic order grafted upon the Corinthian. It is called also the Roman or the Italic order, and is one of the five orders recognized by the Italian writers of the sixteenth century. See Capital.
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(Bot.) Belonging to the order Composit[ae]; bearing involucrate heads of many small florets, as the daisy, thistle, and dandelion.
Composite carriage, a railroad car having compartments of different classes. [Eng.]
Composite number (Math.), one which can be divided exactly by a number exceeding unity, as 6 by 2 or 3..
Composite photograph or Composite portrait, one made by a combination, or blending, of several distinct photographs.
--F. Galton.Composite sailing (Naut.), a combination of parallel and great circle sailing.
Composite ship, one with a wooden casing and iron frame.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, from Old French composite, from Latin compositus "placed together," past participle of componere "to put together, to collect a whole from several parts," from com- "together" (see com-) + ponere "to place" (past participle positus; see position (n.)). The noun is attested from c.1400. Composite number is from 1730s.
Wiktionary
1 Made up of multiple components; compound or complex. 2 (context architecture English) Being a mixture of Ionic and Corinthian styles. 3 (context mathematics English) Not prime; having factors. 4 (context botany English) Being a member of the Asteraceae family (formerly known as Compositae), bearing involucrate heads of many small florets. n. 1 A mixture of different components. 2 A structural material that gains its strength from a combination of complementary materials. 3 (context botany English) A plant belonging to the family Asteraceae, syn. Compositae. 4 (context mathematics English) A function of a function. 5 (context chiefly law enforcement English) A drawing, photograph, or the like, that combines several separate pictures or images. v
To make a composite.
WordNet
adj. consisting of separate interconnected parts
of or relating to or belonging to the plant family Compositae
used of color
a modified Corinthian style of architecture (a combination of Corinthian and Ionic)
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 that resemble single flowers [syn: composite plant]
Wikipedia
Composite or compositing may refer to:
The Composite is a New York City Subway car class built in 1903 and in 1904 for the Interborough Rapid Transit Company and its successor, the NYC Board of Transportation.
The Composite derived its name from its build as a "protected wooden car." The car frame was made of steel, while the car body itself was made from wood encased in a layer of copper sheathing. The copper skin was intended to protect the car in the event of a fire in the subway. Therefore the result was a body composed of several materials (as in a Composite material) and became known simply as a "Composite."
Because of the Composites' copper sheathing, IRT crews and shop personnel coined the nickname for the cars: Copper Sides.
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 measures. An example of a composite index in the social sciences is used in the European Lifelong Learning Indicators (ELLI) project.
The Composite Extension of the X Window System renders the graphical output of clients "...to an off-screen buffer. Applications can then take the contents of that buffer and do whatever they like. The off-screen buffer can be automatically merged into the parent window or merged by external programs, called compositing managers."
This enabled the creation of compositing window managers for X, capable of effects like transparency, 3D rotation, and jiggly windows.
The composite extension was added to X.org in version X11R6.8 in September 2004.
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.