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Composite   /kəmpˈɑzət/  /kɑmpˈɑzət/   Listen
adjective
Composite  adj.  
1.
Made up of distinct parts or elements; compounded; as, a composite language. "Happiness, like air and water... is composite."
2.
(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.
3.
(Bot.) Belonging to the order Compositae; 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.
Composite sailing (Naut.), a combination of parallel and great circle sailing.
Composite ship, one with a wooden casing and iron frame.



noun
Composite  n.  That which is made up of parts or compounded of several elements; composition; combination; compound. (R.)






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"Composite" Quotes from Famous Books



... Another picture also—a composite photograph—I shall never forget. It is the same man—sometimes blonde, sometimes dark, but always the same smallish man—as, on picket duty, he stops you to examine your papers. He does not understand the papers in the least. The British passport begins with ...
— Current History, A Monthly Magazine - The European War, March 1915 • New York Times

... These figures are respectively 23 per cent. and 24 per cent. of the total losses last year, thus showing a favorable beginning, for the winter losses are naturally the heaviest. The materials of the vessels lost were: Steel, 24 vessels of 40,474 tons; iron, 74 vessels of 78,314 tons; and wood and composite, 184 vessels of 76,692 tons. The United Kingdom shows best under the heads of total losses and losses of sailing vessels, but in steamers it actually comes last among the six nationalities we have selected for comparison. It must be remembered, ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 1082, September 26, 1896 • Various

... "Nerves" are Made Of. Dr. Tom A. Williams in the little composite volume "Psychotherapeutics" says that the neuroses are based not on inherently weak nervous constitutions but on ignorance and on false ideas. What, then, are some of these erroneous ideas, these misconceptions, that cause so much trouble? We shall want ...
— Outwitting Our Nerves - A Primer of Psychotherapy • Josephine A. Jackson and Helen M. Salisbury

... he had played a little while, the composite pattern of faces always faded and darkened into a blur and he forgot them: forgot himself, forgot everything except the instrument that had become the mouthpiece of his soul. Then he, like his audience, was swept away into an impalpable world where nothing ...
— Destiny • Charles Neville Buck

... the pressure at the section where the break had been made in the line that troops were taken from wherever available, so that the units in the gap varied from day to day. For the men had to be returned to their original positions, such as remained available, as soon as possible. This composite body of troops has been ...
— The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of VIII) - History of the European War from Official Sources • Various


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