[syn: composite, composite plant]
ADJECTIVE (2)
1. consisting of separate interconnected parts;
2. of or relating to or belonging to the plant family Compositae;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
composite
adj 1: consisting of separate interconnected parts
2: of or relating to or belonging to the plant family Compositae
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, composite]
2: considered the most highly evolved dicotyledonous plants,
characterized by florets arranged in dense heads that
resemble single flowers [syn: composite, composite plant]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
composite
aggregate