Composite

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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              Happiness, like air and water . . . is composite.
                                                    --Landor.
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     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}.
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     3. (Bot.) Belonging to the order {Composit[ae]}; bearing
        involucrate heads of many small florets, as the daisy,
        thistle, and dandelion.
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     {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.
        --F. Galton.
  
     {Composite sailing} (Naut.), a combination of parallel and
        great circle sailing.
  
     {Composite ship}, one with a wooden casing and iron frame.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Composite \Com*pos"ite\ (?; 277), n.
     That which is made up of parts or compounded of several
     elements; composition; combination; compound. [R.]
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  composite
       adj 1: consisting of separate interconnected parts
       2: of or relating to or belonging to the plant family
          Compositae
       3: used of color
       4: a modified Corinthian style of architecture (a combination
          of Corinthian and Ionic)
       n 1: a conceptual whole made up of complicated and related parts;
            "the complex of shopping malls, houses, and roads
            created a new town" [syn: {complex}]
       2: considered the most highly evolved dicotyledonous plants,
          characterized by florets arranged in dense heads that
          resemble single flowers [syn: {composite plant}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  68 Moby Thesaurus words for "composite":
     admixture, alloy, amalgam, amalgamated, ambiguous, ambivalent,
     amphibious, blend, blended, certain, combination, combined, combo,
     commixture, complex, composition, compound, compounded, concoction,
     confection, conglomerate, dappled, eclectic, ensemble, equivocal,
     fifty-fifty, half-and-half, heterogeneous, immixture,
     indiscriminate, integral, integrant, integrated, intermixture,
     intricate, ironic, jumbled, magma, many-sided, medley, mingled,
     miscellaneous, mixed, mixture, more, more than one, motley,
     multifaceted, multinational, multiracial, not singular, numerous,
     paste, patchy, plural, pluralistic, plurative, promiscuous,
     rolled into one, scrambled, some, syncretic, thrown together,
     unified, unitary, united, varied, various
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  composite
       
          {aggregate}