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Definition of Composite
1. Adjective. Consisting of separate interconnected parts.
2. Noun. A conceptual whole made up of complicated and related parts. "The complex of shopping malls, houses, and roads created a new town"
3. Adjective. Of or relating to or belonging to the plant family Compositae.
4. Noun. Considered the most highly evolved dicotyledonous plants, characterized by florets arranged in dense heads that resemble single flowers.
Generic synonyms: Flower
Group relationships: Aster Family, Asteraceae, Compositae, Family Asteraceae, Family Compositae
Specialized synonyms: Compass Flower, Compass Plant, Everlasting, Everlasting Flower, Anthemis Cotula, Dog Fennel, Mayweed, Stinking Chamomile, Stinking Mayweed, Anthemis Tinctoria, Dyers' Chamomile, Golden Marguerite, Yellow Chamomile, Anthemis Arvensis, Corn Chamomile, Corn Mayweed, Field Chamomile, Chrysanthemum Maximum, Leucanthemum Maximum, Oxeye Daisy, Chrysanthemum Maximum Maximum, Leucanthemum Superbum, Shasta Daisy, Chrysanthemum Lacustre, Leucanthemum Lacustre, Pyrenees Daisy, Chrysanthemum Ptarmiciflorum, Dusty Miller, Silver Lace, Silver-lace, Tanacetum Ptarmiciflorum, Golden Buttons, Scented Fern, Tanacetum Vulgare, Tansy, Crown Beard, Crown-beard, Crownbeard
Definition of Composite
1. a. Made up of distinct parts or elements; compounded; as, a composite language.
2. n. That which is made up of parts or compounded of several elements; composition; combination; compound.
Definition of Composite
1. Adjective. Made up of multiple components; compound or complex. ¹
2. Adjective. (architecture) Being a mixture of Ionic and Corinthian styles. ¹
3. Adjective. (mathematics) Not prime; having factors. ¹
4. Adjective. (botany) Being a member of the Asteraceae family (formerly known as Compositae). ¹
5. Noun. A mixture of different components. ¹
6. Noun. A structural material that gains its strength from a combination of complementary materials. ¹
7. Noun. (botany) A plant belonging to the family ''Compositae''. ¹
8. Noun. (mathematics) A function of a function. ¹
9. Noun. (chiefly law enforcement) A drawing, photograph, or the like, that combines several separate pictures or images. ¹
10. Verb. To make a composite. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Composite
1. [v -POSITED, -POSITING, -POSITES]
Medical Definition of Composite
1. A colloquial term for resin materials used in restorative dentistry. Origin: L. Compositus, put together, fr. Compono, to put together (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Composite
Literary usage of Composite
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine (1887)
"A young lady, on seeing for the first time a composite of a small group of which
she was a member, wrote me : " It is charming to enjoy the society of ..."
2. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1894)
"Insect Sight and the Defining Power of composite Eyes. immersion, was heated in
hydrogen. The action would be represented by the formula 4Cu + S03 ..."
3. Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant, John Miller Dow Meiklejohn (1899)
"SECOND CONFLICT OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL IDEAS Thesis Every composite substance in
the world consists of simple part*; and there exists nothing that is not ..."
4. La Niäna and Its Impacts: Facts and Speculation by Michael H. Glantz (2002)
"The composite cold anomalies also persist longer into Yr(+1) than do the ...
We note in passing that the composite anomalies based on the six-event subset ..."
5. The Persistent Problems of Philosophy: An Introduction to Metaphysics by Mary Whiton Calkins (1912)
"Ultimate reality is not a composite of all particular realities — it is neither
an aggregate nor a system There are two conceptions of ultimate reality as ..."
6. Logic by Christoph Sigwart (1895)
"THE SYNTHESIS OF CONCEPTUAL ELEMENTS INTO composite CONCEPTS. § 75- AN exhaustive
analysis of our ideas into SIMPLE ELEMENTS which are completely determined ..."
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