Noun: composite
| Singular | composite |
| Plural | composites |
Sample Sentences
-
The units are made up as either:
-
[...]
-
Trailer composite—4 first-class compartments—24 seats; and 3 second-class compartments—24 seats,
-
[...]
-
A total of 40 vehicles are to be built, Ten of each type of power car, ten trailer composites, five trailer seconds and five trailer second/buffets. [1963 April, “New Inter-City diesel multiple-units for W.R.”, in Modern Railways, page 266:]
-
[…] likely give offense to conscience or moral feelings or shock the sense of decency or propriety in a substantial composite of the general public [1991 December 1, Jacob Smith Yang, quoting U.S. Trademark Office, “Old Glory Condoms Denied Patent”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 20, page 2:]
-
Insurance as an industry is a major composite of the financial sector of any economy all over the world, Nigeria inclusive. [2019, J. M. Odachi, S. E. Okon, “Organisational Culture and Perception of Service Quality among Employees in the Insurance Industry in Nigeria”, in UNILAG Journal of Humanities, volume 7, number 2, page 160:]
Nouns inflected like composite
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French composite, from Latin compositus, past participle of compōnō (“put together”). Doublet of compost, compote, and kompot. See: Latin Nouns '
compositus'.
Verbs referencing "composite"
Finnish Nouns
komposiitti.