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noun

• A mixture of different components.

• A structural material that gains its strength from a combination of complementary materials.

• A plant belonging to the family Asteraceae, syn. Compositae.

• A function of a function.

• (chiefly law enforcement) A drawing, photograph, etc. that combines several separate pictures or images.

verb

• To make a composite.

  Example: I composited an image using computer software.

adjective

• Made up of multiple components; compound or complex.

• Being a mixture of Ionic and Corinthian styles.

• Having factors other than itself and one; not prime and not one.

• Belonging to the Asteraceae family (formerly known as Compositae), bearing involucrate heads of many small florets.

• Employing multiple exposures on a single plate, so as to create an average view of something, such as faces in physiognomy.

  Example: composite portraiture; a composite photograph

noun

• A (nonzero) natural number that is expressible as the product of two (or more) natural numbers other than itself and 1.