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adjective

Composite adj.

Made up of distinct parts or elements; compounded; as, a composite language. "Happiness, like air and water... is composite."

(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.

(Bot.) Belonging to the order Compositae; bearing involucrate heads of many small florets, as the daisy, thistle, and dandelion.

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.

Composite sailing (Naut.), a combination of parallel and great circle sailing.

Composite ship, one with a wooden casing and iron frame.

noun

Composite n. That which is made up of parts or compounded of several elements; composition; combination; compound. (R.)

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"Composite" Quotes from Famous Books

... that there are prime numbers and composite whole numbers. Now, 1,111,111 cannot be a prime number, because if it were the only possible answers would be those proposed by Brother Benjamin and rejected by Father Peter. Also it cannot have ...

— The Canterbury Puzzles - And Other Curious Problems • Henry Ernest Dudeney

... a very composite quatrain (stanza v.) which cannot be claimed as a translation at all" (see the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayya[a]m, by Edward Heron Allen, 1898), embodies a ...

— The Works Of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 (of 7) • Lord Byron

... 11, 1825, a review of the entire heavens down to 15 deg. south of the celestial equator, which occupied more than two years, and yielded, from an examination of above 120,000 stars, a harvest of about 2,200 previously unnoticed composite objects. The ensuing ten years were devoted to delicate and patient measurements, the results of which were embodied in Mensurae Micrometricae, published at St. Petersburg in 1837. This monumental work gives the places, angles of position, distances, colours, and relative brightness ...

— A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century - Fourth Edition • Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke

... these creatures was of composite sound—now a word of Spanish, then of German, then of French, then of Gaelic, at times of Basque. It was either a patois or a slang. They appeared to be of all nations, and yet ...

— The Man Who Laughs • Victor Hugo

... endowed with the characteristics of some confident person that you know. The qualities that you seek may even be borrowed from a famous person. If this isn't possible, make up a personality which is a composite of all the things you want to be. See yourself walking, talking and carrying on activities. Keep fortifying this image with the mental suggestions that are needed. It won't be long before these mental impressions ...

— A Practical Guide to Self-Hypnosis • Melvin Powers

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