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COMPOSITE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A conceptual whole made up of complicated and related parts
Example:
the complex of shopping malls, houses, and roads created a new town
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("composite" is a kind of...):
whole (all of something including all its component elements or parts)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "composite"):
hybrid (a composite of mixed origin)
syndrome (a complex of concurrent things)
Derivation:
composite (consisting of separate interconnected parts)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Considered the most highly evolved dicotyledonous plants, characterized by florets arranged in dense heads that resemble single flowers
Synonyms:
composite; composite plant
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("composite" is a kind of...):
flower (a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "composite"):
compass flower; compass plant (any of several plants having leaves so arranged on the axis as to indicate the cardinal points of the compass)
everlasting; everlasting flower (any of various plants of various genera of the family Compositae having flowers that can be dried without loss of form or color)
Anthemis cotula; dog fennel; mayweed; stinking chamomile; stinking mayweed (widespread rank-smelling weed having white-rayed flower heads with yellow discs)
Anthemis tinctoria; dyers' chamomile; golden marguerite; yellow chamomile (Eurasian perennial herb with hairy divided leaves and yellow flowers; naturalized in North America)
Anthemis arvensis; corn chamomile; corn mayweed; field chamomile (European white-flowered weed naturalized in North America)
Chrysanthemum maximum; Leucanthemum maximum; oxeye daisy (similar to oxeye daisy)
Chrysanthemum maximum maximum; Leucanthemum superbum; shasta daisy (hybrid garden flower derived from Chrysanthemum maximum and Chrysanthemum lacustre having large white flower heads resembling oxeye daisies; often placed in the genus Chrysanthemum)
Chrysanthemum lacustre; Leucanthemum lacustre; Pyrenees daisy (perennial of Portugal similar to the oxeye daisy)
Chrysanthemum ptarmiciflorum; dusty miller; silver-lace; silver lace; Tanacetum ptarmiciflorum (shrubby perennial of the Canary Islands having white flowers and leaves and hairy stems covered with dustlike down; sometimes placed in genus Chrysanthemum)
golden buttons; scented fern; Tanacetum vulgare; tansy (common perennial aromatic herb native to Eurasia having buttonlike yellow flower heads and bitter-tasting pinnate leaves sometimes used medicinally)
crown-beard; crown beard; crownbeard (any plant of the genus Verbesina having clustered white or yellow flower heads)
Holonyms ("composite" is a member of...):
aster family; Asteraceae; Compositae; family Asteraceae; family Compositae (plants with heads composed of many florets: aster; daisy; dandelion; goldenrod; marigold; lettuces; ragweed; sunflower; thistle; zinnia)
Derivation:
composite (of or relating to or belonging to the plant family Compositae)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Consisting of separate interconnected parts
Classified under:
Similar:
complex (complicated in structure; consisting of interconnected parts)
Derivation:
composite (a conceptual whole made up of complicated and related parts)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Of or relating to or belonging to the plant family Compositae
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Domain category:
botany; phytology (the branch of biology that studies plants)
Pertainym:
family Compositae (plants with heads composed of many florets: aster; daisy; dandelion; goldenrod; marigold; lettuces; ragweed; sunflower; thistle; zinnia)
Derivation:
composite (considered the most highly evolved dicotyledonous plants, characterized by florets arranged in dense heads that resemble single flowers)
III. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb composite
Context examples:
EXAMPLE(S): 6 weeks may be the planned duration for a composite activity that represents the activities occurring during an epoch on arm A.
(Planned Activity Planned Duration, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)
This is a composite group consisting of tumors, in which neuroendocrine differentiation has been confirmed by immunohistochemical detection of such proteins as synaptophysin, CGRP and chromogranin.
(Neuroendocrine Carcinoma of the Mouse Pulmonary System, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)
The size range roughly 1 to 100 nanometers, where many of the fundamental structures of biology are formed, composite materials may take on their distinctive characteristics, and many important physical phenomena are found.
(Nanoscale, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
A pliable length of fabric, plastic, paper or some composite that is has incremental lengths imprinted on the surface.
(Measuring Tape, NCI Thesaurus)
A pliable length of fabric, plastic, paper or some composite marked off in a linear scale, as of inches or centimeters, for taking measurements.
(Measuring Tape, NICHD)
Refers to the hybridization of fluorescently labeled, chromosome-specific, composite probe pools to cytological preparations.
(Chromosome Painting, NCI Thesaurus)
A relationship between a composite activity and an option that can satisfy it, i.e. choice and option activities, where all these activities are part of a global library of activities.
(Defined Option Relationship, NCI Thesaurus)
They found that 40% more rhodamine B was degraded by the graphene-titania composite than by titania alone, in water under UV irradiation.
(Smog-eating graphene composite reduces atmospheric pollution, University of Cambridge)
By exploiting the benign chemistry of plant tissue scaffolds, researchers wrote, we could address the many limitations and high costs of synthetic, complex composite materials.
(Human Heart Cells Grown on Spinach Leaves, VOA News)
The whole composite vision was achieved with the speed of light, producing no pause in the conversation, nor interrupting his calm train of thought.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
