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composite

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1. composite - Noun

2. composite - Adjective

3. composite - Verb

4. composite - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Made up of distinct parts or elements; compounded; as, a composite language.

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.

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

That which is made up of parts or compounded of several elements; composition; combination; compound.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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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. Sherwood Anderson

A composite is a euphemism for a lie. It's disorderly. It's dishonest and it's not journalism. Fred W. Friendly

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. Carl Friedrich Gauss

The American uppermiddle-class citizen is a composite of negatives. He is largely delineated by what he is not. William S. Burroughs

Indeed, the "whole bourgeoisie" on whose behalf the government was acting as its "committee" was a composite of a vast multitude of businessmen appearing as a conglomeration of many different and divergent groups and interests. Paul A. Baran

All my work keeps going like a pendulum; it seems to swing back to something I was involved with earlier, or it moves between horizontality and verticality, circularity, or a composite of them. For me, I suppose that change is the only constant. Lee Krasner

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