COMPOSITE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does composite mean? 

• COMPOSITE (noun)
  The noun COMPOSITE has 2 senses:

1. a conceptual whole made up of complicated and related parts

2. considered the most highly evolved dicotyledonous plants, characterized by florets arranged in dense heads that resemble single flowers

  Familiarity information: COMPOSITE used as a noun is rare.

• COMPOSITE (adjective)
  The adjective COMPOSITE has 2 senses:

1. consisting of separate interconnected parts

2. of or relating to or belonging to the plant family Compositae

  Familiarity information: COMPOSITE used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMPOSITE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A conceptual whole made up of complicated and related parts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

complex; composite

Context example:

the complex of shopping malls, houses, and roads created a new town

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

composite; composite plant

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)

• COMPOSITE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Consisting of separate interconnected parts

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)

 Context examples 

Equipment that has processed composite instances to create new composite instances.

(Digital Image Processing Equipment, NCI Thesaurus/DICOM)

An artifact that is one of the individual parts of which a composite entity is made up; especially a part that can be separated from or attached to a system.

(Element, NCI Thesaurus)

A tooth restorative material that contains both microfill composites and macrofill composites, and contains a range of particle sizes between .6 and 1 micron in diameter.

(Hybrid Composite, NCI Thesaurus)

Issue associated with peeling of composite materials.

(Delamination, Food and Drug Administration)

NOTE(S): In a course of treatment (a composite activity) that is composed of a chemotherapy activity and a radiotherapy activity, the sequence number indicates which component activity precedes the other.

(Defined Composition Relationship Sequence Number, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

The composite lymphoma may contain different types of non-Hodgkin lymphoma cells or both Hodgkin and non-Hodgkin lymphoma cells.

(Composite lymphoma, NCI Dictionary)

A relationship between a composite activity and the component activities that comprise it, i.e. parent and child activities, where all these activities are part of a global library of activities.

(Defined Composition Relationship, NCI Thesaurus)

A set of composite instances of the same Modality, created by the same Equipment, with the same Frame of Reference.

(Image Series, NCI Thesaurus/DICOM)

An adrenal gland composite pheochromocytoma that metastasizes to other anatomic sites.

(Malignant Adrenal Gland Composite Pheochromocytoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Derived by multiplying PerformedSubstanceAdministration.periodProductDoseTotal (the composite product that was administered) with the ProductRelationship.quantity (a ratio) for the component product that is the active ingredient (where ProductRelationship.activeIngredientIndicator = true).

(Performed Substance Administration Period Active Ingredient Dose Total, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)