composite

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

noun a conceptual whole made up of complicated and related parts
noun considered the most highly evolved dicotyledonous plants, characterized by florets arranged in dense heads that resemble single flowers
adjective consisting of separate interconnected parts

Borrowed from Middle French composite, from Latin compositus, past participle of compōnō (“put together”). Doublet of compost, compote, and kompot.

Experts also state the picture was not a composite. — Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, United States. Warren Commission
Cavalry:-- Household Cavalry, Composite regiment of, 394, 400, 404, 437, 441, 442. — History of the War in South Africa 1899-1902 v. 1 (of 4) : Compiled by Direction of His Majesty's Government, Great Britain. War Office
Our inference of the simple from the composite is valid only of self-subsisting things. — The Critique of Pure Reason, Immanuel Kant

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