Definitions for composite

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composite com·pos·ite

Spelling: [kuh m-poz-it]

IPA: /kəmˈpɒz ɪt/

Composite is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 466 anagrams from letters in composite (ceimoopst).

Definitions for composite

noun

1. something composite; a compound.
2. Botany. a composite plant.
3. a picture, photograph, or the like, that combines several separate pictures.

adjective

1. made up of disparate or separate parts or elements; compound:
2. Botany. belonging to the Compositae. Compare composite family.
3. (initial capital letter) Architecture. noting or pertaining to one of the five classical orders, popular especially since the beginning of the Renaissance but invented by the ancient Romans, in which the Roman Ionic and Corinthian orders are combined, so that four diagonally set Ionic volutes, variously ornamented, rest upon a bell of Corinthian acanthus leaves. Compare Corinthian (def 2), Doric (def 3), Ionic (def 1), Tuscan (def 2).
4. Rocketry. (of a rocket or missile) having more than one stage. (of a solid propellant) made up of a mixture of fuel and oxidizer.
5. Nautical. noting a vessel having frames of one material and shells and decking of another, especially one having iron or steel frames with shells and decks planked.
6. Mathematics. of or relating to a composite function or a composite number.

verb (used with object)

1. to make a composite of.

Origin of composite

1350-1400; Middle English (Middle French) Latin compositus (past participle of compōnere to put together), equivalent to com- com- + positus placed; see Examples for composite

It was of a composite architecture, between the Morisco and the Spanish.

In that matter I would not trust myself; why, then, should I trust the composite Democrat?

The composite photo whose eyes follow you around the room are less Matthew Lewis or Sheridan Le Fanu than “Scooby-Doo.”

This composite body of troops has been called Geddes's Detachment.

Chavez was reluctant to discuss an active investigation, so he told me an intricate story that is a composite of real meth cases.

But we did have to compress time, and we did have to composite some of the characters.

It is adopting technology—in rocket propulsion, composite construction, and aerodynamic refinements—already in use elsewhere.

Wolf says he wanted to “create a composite portrait of the teenager that was about to be born.”

The composite animal in Book IX is an allegory of the parts of the soul.

And let the figure be composite—a pair of winged horses and a charioteer.