composite

Borrowed from Middle French composite, from Latin compositus, past participle of compōnō (“put together”). Doublet of compost.

• (Canada, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒmpəzɪt/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /kəmˈpɑzɪt/

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔmpəzɪt/
• Rhymes: -ɒzɪt

composite (comparative more composite, superlative most composite)

1. Made up of multiple components; compound or complex.
2. (architecture) Being a mixture of Ionic and Corinthian styles.
3. (mathematics) Having factors other than itself and one; not prime and not one.
4. (botany) Belonging to the Asteraceae family (formerly known as Compositae), bearing involucrate heads of many small florets.
5. (photography, historical) Employing multiple exposures on a single plate, so as to create an average view of something, such as faces in physiognomy.

   composite portraiture; a composite photograph

   • 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., page 92:

     [B]y photographing a number of faces on the same plate, and so superimposing their images on one another, he produces a so-called "composite" photograph or image.

composite (plural composites)

1. A mixture of different components.
2. A structural material that gains its strength from a combination of complementary materials.
3. (botany) A plant belonging to the family Asteraceae, syn. Compositae.
4. (mathematics) A function of a function.
5. (mathematics) Clipping of composite number.
6. (chiefly law enforcement) A drawing, photograph, etc. that combines several separate pictures or images.
7. (rail transport, UK) A railway carriage with compartments for two different classes of travel; see Composite Corridor.
   • 1963 April, “New Inter-City diesel multiple-units for W.R.”, in Modern Railways, page 266:

     The units are made up as either:
     [...]
     Trailer composite—4 first-class compartments—24 seats; and 3 second-class compartments—24 seats,
     [...]
     A total of 40 vehicles are to be built, Ten of each type of power car, ten trailer composites, five trailer seconds and five trailer second/buffets.

8. (fraternities) a framed photo board composed of many individual photos of fraternity or sorority members

• DYC
• facial composite

• aggregate
• conglomerate

composite (third-person singular simple present composites, present participle compositing, simple past and past participle composited)

1. To make a composite.

   I composited an image using computer software.

Inherited from Middle French, borrowed from Latin compositus. Doublet of compote and compost.

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.po.zit/

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composite m (plural composites)

1. composite material

composite (plural composites)

1. composite

• → Turkish: kompozit

• “composite”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

composite

1. feminine plural of composito

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /komˈpo.si.te/, [kɔmˈpɔs̠ɪt̪ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /komˈpo.si.te/, [komˈpɔːs̬it̪e]

composite

1. vocative masculine singular of compositus

• “composite”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “composite”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• composite in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.