Composite
adjective
Made up of diverse elements or ingredients mixed together.
A composite photograph was made by merging all their individual photos.
Often appears as...
- composite material
- composite image
noun
Something made up from several parts or ingredients.
The house was a composite of many different styles.
Often appears as...
- in a composite
- composite of features
noun
A type of flower plant from the daisy family.
Sunflowers and daisies are types of composite flowers.
Often appears as...
- composite plant
- composite flowers
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Technical
adjective
In mathematics, a number that can be divided evenly by numbers other than 1 or itself.
15 is a composite number because it has factors other than 1 and itself.
Often appears as...
- composite number
- composite integer
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Technical
noun
A material made by combining two or more different materials to obtain better qualities.
Composites are often used in aircraft for their strength and light weight.
Often appears as...
- composite material
- in composite form
Usage tips
Technical
adjective
Made up of diverse elements or ingredients mixed together.
A composite photograph was made by merging all their individual photos.
Often appears as...
- composite material
- composite image
noun
Something made up from several parts or ingredients.
The house was a composite of many different styles.
Often appears as...
- in a composite
- composite of features
noun
A type of flower plant from the daisy family.
Sunflowers and daisies are types of composite flowers.
Often appears as...
- composite plant
- composite flowers
Usage tips
Technical
adjective
In mathematics, a number that can be divided evenly by numbers other than 1 or itself.
15 is a composite number because it has factors other than 1 and itself.
Often appears as...
- composite number
- composite integer
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A material made by combining two or more different materials to obtain better qualities.
Composites are often used in aircraft for their strength and light weight.
Often appears as...
- composite material
- in composite form
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 5
Pro Tip 1/2Hybrid Creations
Used to describe something created by combining things from different sources or types.
The festival's theme is a composite of various cultures.
Pro Tip 2/2Not Natural
Often implies that something has been artificially created or assembled.
They used composite woods, rather than natural timber for the project.
Pro Tip 1/2Hybrid Creations
Used to describe something created by combining things from different sources or types.
The festival's theme is a composite of various cultures.
Pro Tip 2/2Not Natural
Often implies that something has been artificially created or assembled.
They used composite woods, rather than natural timber for the project.
Pro Tip 1/2Hybrid Creations
Used to describe something created by combining things from different sources or types.
The festival's theme is a composite of various cultures.
Pro Tip 2/2Not Natural
Often implies that something has been artificially created or assembled.
They used composite woods, rather than natural timber for the project.
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What if 3D printing was...
underneath the reservoir, illuminating with light in the ultraviolet region. Now, the key is that this window in the bottom of this reservoir, it's a composite, it's a very special window. It's not only transparent to light but it's permeable to oxygen. It's got characteristics like a contact lens.
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What’s the big deal with...
here are some questions you can ask, and the well-informed answers that your friend, being a reasonable individual making educated dietary choices, and by no means just following the latest diet craze, will tell you. What is gluten? Gluten is an insoluble protein composite
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How to separate fact and...
hitting the iPhone capital of the universe -- -- and you got volumes of media like we'd never seen before. And that meant that journalists had to deal with fakes, so we had to deal with old photos that were being reposted. We had to deal with composite images
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How to create a great...
with big broad bold ambitions beyond ride hailing now real words might seem like good ideas but in a world of 300 million companies it's getting harder to find a name it's hard to find any real words left in a dictionary composite names like facebook and
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An honest look at the...
but I appraise them now with curious eyes, wondering if their stories started like mine. I wrote this piece a year ago. It's a composite of my story and other women I know. I wrote it because I was tired of pretending I was all right when I wasn't.
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A life-saving invention...
Otherwise, people might step over the sensor. We started with a proof of concept built in three days, made out of cardboard and aluminum foil. It worked, for real. We built another one with aluminum composite panels and piezoelectric plates,
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Sending Humans to Mars:...
But you're more likely to fail. - So what was it supposed to look like? Well, you'd have the booster going up, and what I'm showing you here is going to be a composite, a long exposure photograph. What it's supposed to have looked like,
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How to Make Bendy and...
integrity to my bones a bit like this thing and that highlights just how important that is to have a skeleton with bones made of this composite material this allows bone to be both
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How your brain decides...
he will discover the face of criminality. But to his surprise, the composite portrait that he produces is beautiful. Galton's surprising finding raises deep
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7 Billion: Are You...
to create a composite image This is the world's most typical person But he won't be typical for long
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What if 3D printing was...
underneath the reservoir, illuminating with light in the ultraviolet region. Now, the key is that this window in the bottom of this reservoir, it's a composite, it's a very special window. It's not only transparent to light but it's permeable to oxygen. It's got characteristics like a contact lens.
Video examples
What’s the big deal with...
here are some questions you can ask, and the well-informed answers that your friend, being a reasonable individual making educated dietary choices, and by no means just following the latest diet craze, will tell you. What is gluten? Gluten is an insoluble protein composite
Video examples
How to separate fact and...
hitting the iPhone capital of the universe -- -- and you got volumes of media like we'd never seen before. And that meant that journalists had to deal with fakes, so we had to deal with old photos that were being reposted. We had to deal with composite images
Video examples
How to create a great...
with big broad bold ambitions beyond ride hailing now real words might seem like good ideas but in a world of 300 million companies it's getting harder to find a name it's hard to find any real words left in a dictionary composite names like facebook and
Video examples
An honest look at the...
but I appraise them now with curious eyes, wondering if their stories started like mine. I wrote this piece a year ago. It's a composite of my story and other women I know. I wrote it because I was tired of pretending I was all right when I wasn't.
Video examples
A life-saving invention...
Otherwise, people might step over the sensor. We started with a proof of concept built in three days, made out of cardboard and aluminum foil. It worked, for real. We built another one with aluminum composite panels and piezoelectric plates,
Video examples
Sending Humans to Mars:...
But you're more likely to fail. - So what was it supposed to look like? Well, you'd have the booster going up, and what I'm showing you here is going to be a composite, a long exposure photograph. What it's supposed to have looked like,
Video examples
How to Make Bendy and...
integrity to my bones a bit like this thing and that highlights just how important that is to have a skeleton with bones made of this composite material this allows bone to be both
Video examples
How your brain decides...
he will discover the face of criminality. But to his surprise, the composite portrait that he produces is beautiful. Galton's surprising finding raises deep
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7 Billion: Are You...
to create a composite image This is the world's most typical person But he won't be typical for long
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Quote examples
Walter Gropius
German Architect
Today the arts exist in isolation, from which they can be rescued only through the conscious, cooperative effort of all craftsmen. Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and in its separate parts.
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Sherwood Anderson
American Writer
That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.
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Lou Reed
American Musician
I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't pay any attention at all. Sometimes it's me, or a composite of me and other people. Sometimes it's not me at all.
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Niccolo Machiavelli
Italian Writer
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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Carl Friedrich Gauss
German Mathematician
The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.
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Stephen Covey
American Educator
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.
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Nora Roberts
American Author
I don't base any character on a real person, and really don't do composites either. I make them up.
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Fred W. Friendly
American Producer
A composite is a euphemism for a lie. It's disorderly. It's dishonest and it's not journalism.
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Mahesh Bhatt
Indian Director
I am what this country dreams of achieving: a perfect example of composite India.
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Greg Olsen
American Football Player
I wear a composite non-stick glove.
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Walter Gropius
German Architect
Today the arts exist in isolation, from which they can be rescued only through the conscious, cooperative effort of all craftsmen. Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and in its separate parts.
Quote examples
Sherwood Anderson
American Writer
That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.
Quote examples
Lou Reed
American Musician
I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't pay any attention at all. Sometimes it's me, or a composite of me and other people. Sometimes it's not me at all.
Quote examples
Niccolo Machiavelli
Italian Writer
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.
Quote examples
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German Mathematician
The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.
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Stephen Covey
American Educator
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.
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Nora Roberts
American Author
I don't base any character on a real person, and really don't do composites either. I make them up.
Quote examples
Fred W. Friendly
American Producer
A composite is a euphemism for a lie. It's disorderly. It's dishonest and it's not journalism.
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Mahesh Bhatt
Indian Director
I am what this country dreams of achieving: a perfect example of composite India.
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Greg Olsen
American Football Player
I wear a composite non-stick glove.
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