Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - composite
Composite
composite
adj., n., & v. --adj. 1 made up of various parts; blended. 2 (esp. of a synthetic building material) made up of recognizable constituents. 3 Archit. of the fifth classical order of architecture, consisting of elements of the Ionic and Corinthian orders. 4 Bot. of the plant family Compositae. --n. 1 a thing made up of several parts or elements. 2 a synthetic building material. 3 Bot. any plant of the family Compositae, having a head of many small flowers forming one bloom, e.g. the daisy or the dandelion. 4 Polit. a resolution composed of two or more related resolutions. --v.tr. Polit. amalgamate (two or more similar resolutions). Derivatives compositely adv. compositeness n. Etymology: F f. L compositus past part. of componere (as COM-, ponere posit- put)
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I. adjective Etymology: Latin compositus, past participle of componere Date: 1563 made up of distinct parts: as, relating to or being a modification of the Corinthian order combining angular Ionic volutes with the acanthus-circled bell of the Corinthian, of or relating to a very large family (Compositae syn. Asteraceae) of dicotyledonous herbs, shrubs, and trees often considered to be the most highly evolved plants and characterized by florets arranged in dense heads that resemble single flowers, factorable into two or more prime factors other than 1 and itself , combining the typical or essential characteristics of individuals making up a group , specifying a range of values for one or more statistical parameters, ~ly adverb II. noun Date: 1656 something ~ ; compound , a ~ plant, ~ function, a solid material which is composed of two or more substances having different physical characteristics and in which each substance retains its identity while contributing desirable properties to the whole, III. transitive verb (-ited; -iting) Date: 1923 to make ~ or into something ~ ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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