composite
Etymology
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Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French composite, from Latin compositus, past participle of compōnō ("put together").
Pronunciation Adjectivecomposite
- Made up of multiple components; compound or complex.
- (architecture) Being a mixture of Ionic and Corinthian styles.
- (mathematics) Having factors other than itself and one; not prime and not one.
- (botany) Belonging to the Asteraceae family (formerly known as Compositae), bearing involucrate heads of many small florets.
- (photography, historical) Employing multiple exposures on a single plate, so as to create an average view of something, such as faces in physiognomy.
- composite portraiture; a composite photograph
- German: zusammengesetzt
- Portuguese: composto
- Russian: составно́й
- Spanish: compuesto
- Russian: компози́тный
- German: zusammengesetzt
- Russian: составно́й
- Russian: сложноцве́тный
composite (plural composites)
- A mixture of different components.
- A structural material that gains its strength from a combination of complementary materials.
- (botany) A plant belonging to the family Asteraceae, syn. Compositae.
- (mathematics) A function of a function.
- (mathematics) Clipping of composite number
- (chiefly, law enforcement) A drawing, photograph, etc. that combines several separate pictures or images.
- (rail, UK) A railway carriage with compartments for two different classes of travel; see Composite Corridor.
- (fraternities) a framed photo board composed of many individual photos of fraternity or sorority members
- (uncommon) A segment, subset.
- Russian: комбина́ция
- Spanish: compuesto
- Russian: компози́т
composite (composites, present participle compositing; simple past and past participle composited)
- To make a composite.
- I composited an image using computer software.
- French: composer
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