composite

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}]
    

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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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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composite

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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