made up of disparate or separate parts or elements; compound: a composite drawing; a composite philosophy.
Botany. belonging to the Compositae.Compare composite family.
(initial capital letter)Architecture. noting or pertaining to one of the five classical orders, popular especially since the beginning of the Renaissance but invented by the ancient Romans, in which the Roman Ionic and Corinthian orders are combined, so that four diagonally set Ionic volutes, variously ornamented, rest upon a bell of Corinthian acanthus leaves.Compare Corinthian (def. 2), Doric (def. 3), Ionic (def. 1), Tuscan (def. 2).
Rocketry.
(of a rocket or missile) having more than one stage.
(of a solid propellant) made up of a mixture of fuel and oxidizer.
Nautical. noting a vessel having frames of one material and shells and decking of another, especially one having iron or steel frames with shells and decks planked.
Mathematics. of or relating to a composite function or a composite number.
noun
something composite; a compound.
Botany. a composite plant.
a picture, photograph, or the like, that combines several separate pictures.
verb (used with object),com·pos·it·ed,com·pos·it·ing.
to make a composite of.
Origin of composite
1350–1400; Middle English (<Middle French ) <Latin compositus (past participle of compōnere to put together), equivalent to com-com- + positus placed; see posit
The composite image, created by stacking together multiple photos that had been taken while the embryo was in motion, documents stages of the embryo’s development from left to right.
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The planters appear to look like heavy stone or concrete, but the material is actually a composite of recycled plastic and powdered stone.
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This style utilizes a flexible TR90 material that can bend under pressure without breaking, and the composite lenses feature UV400 protection, so they’re ideal for travel.
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The Nasdaq composite had already returned to a record, thanks to huge gains for the big tech stocks that dominate it.
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D’Arcy notes that the team is already working on ways to turn their nanofibers into composite materials containing other semiconductors, which they hope will boost capacity by a factor of ten.
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The composite photo whose eyes follow you around the room are less Matthew Lewis or Sheridan Le Fanu than “Scooby-Doo.”
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It is adopting technology—in rocket propulsion, composite construction, and aerodynamic refinements—already in use elsewhere.
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Wolf says he wanted to “create a composite portrait of the teenager that was about to be born.”
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But we did have to compress time, and we did have to composite some of the characters.
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Chavez was reluctant to discuss an active investigation, so he told me an intricate story that is a composite of real meth cases.
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Another folding-over and passing-on game is "Composite Stories."
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The reader is aware that there are prime numbers and composite whole numbers.
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The improved forms of the composite bow are only found on the Asiatic continent.
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Matthew is not only in its whole structure a composite gospel, but shows in high degree the catholicizing tendency of the times.
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Composite photograph of twenty criminals—dullards—in the Elmira Reformatory.
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British Dictionary definitions for composite
composite
/ (ˈkɒmpəzɪt) /
adjective
composed of separate parts; compound
of, relating to, or belonging to the plant family Asteraceae
mathscapable of being factorized or decomposeda composite function
(sometimes capital)denoting or relating to one of the five classical orders of architecture: characterized by a combination of the Ionic and Corinthian stylesSee also Doric, Tuscan
noun
something composed of separate parts; compound
any plant of the family Asteraceae (formerly Compositae), typically having flower heads composed of ray flowers (e.g. dandelion), disc flowers (e.g. thistle), or both (e.g. daisy)
a material, such as reinforced concrete, made of two or more distinct materials
a proposal that has been composited
verb (ˈkɒmpəˌzaɪt)
(tr)to merge related motions from local branches of (a political party, trade union, etc) so as to produce a manageable number of proposals for discussion at national level
Derived forms of composite
compositely, adverbcompositeness, noun
Word Origin for composite
C16: from Latin compositus well arranged, from compōnere to collect, arrange; see component