composite

[Com*pos·ite]

A composite is something made up of complicated and related parts. A composite photograph of your family might have your eyes, your sister’s nose, your dad’s mouth, and your mother’s chin.

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Made up of distinct parts or elements; compounded; as, a composite language.

Noun
a conceptual whole made up of complicated and related parts; "the complex of shopping malls, houses, and roads created a new town"

Noun
considered the most highly evolved dicotyledonous plants, characterized by florets arranged in dense heads that resemble single flowers

Adjective S.
a modified Corinthian style of architecture (a combination of Corinthian and Ionic)

Adjective S.
used of color

Adjective S.
consisting of separate interconnected parts

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Adjective
of or relating to or belonging to the plant family Compositae


v. t.
Made up of distinct parts or elements; compounded; as, a composite language.

v. t.
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.

v. t.
Belonging to the order Compositae; bearing involucrate heads of many small florets, as the daisy, thistle, and dandelion.

n.
That which is made up of parts or compounded of several elements; composition; combination; compound.


Composite

Com*pos"ite (?; 277), a. [L. compositus made up of parts, p. p. of componere. See Compound, v. t., and cf. Compost.] 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 Composit'91; 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 ∨ 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.

Composite

Com*pos"ite (?; 277), n. That which is made up of parts or compounded of several elements; composition; combination; compound. [R.]

Made up of distinct parts or elements; compounded; as, a composite language.

That which is made up of parts or compounded of several elements; composition; combination; compound.

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Usage Examples

I align myself with almost all researchers in assuming that anything we do is a composite of whatever genetic limitations were given to us by our parents and whatever kinds of environmental opportunities are available.

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Other Usage Examples

The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.

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