Composite or compositing may refer to:
Materials
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Composite material
A composite material (also called a composition material or shortened to composite, which is the common name) is a material which is produced from two or more constituent materials. These constituent materials have notably dissimilar chemical or ...
, a material that is made from several different substances
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Metal matrix composite, composed of metal and other parts
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Cermet, a composite of ceramic and metallic materials
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Dental composite, a substance used to fill cavities in teeth
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Composite armor, a type of tank armor
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Alloy
An alloy is a mixture of chemical elements of which at least one is a metal. Unlike chemical compounds with metallic bases, an alloy will retain all the properties of a metal in the resulting material, such as electrical conductivity, ductilit ...
, a mixture of a metal and another element
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Mixture, the combination of several different substances without chemical reaction
Mathematics
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Composite number
A composite number is a positive integer that can be formed by multiplying two smaller positive integers. Equivalently, it is a positive integer that has at least one divisor other than 1 and itself. Every positive integer is composite, prime, ...
, a positive integer that has at least one factor other than one or itself
Science
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Composite particle, a particle which is made up of smaller particles
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Compositae'' or "composite family" of flowering plants
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Composite volcano, a layered conical volcano
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superposed epoch analysis Superposed epoch analysis (SPE or SEA), also called Chree analysis after a paper by Charles Chree
that employed the technique, is a statistical tool used in data analysis
Data analysis is a process of inspecting, cleansing, transforming, and ...
, a
statistical method used to analyze
time series
In mathematics, a time series is a series of data points indexed (or listed or graphed) in time order. Most commonly, a time series is a sequence taken at successive equally spaced points in time. Thus it is a sequence of discrete-time data. E ...
involving multiple events
Technology
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Compositing, combining of visual elements from separate sources into single images
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Digital compositing
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Composite pattern, a software design pattern used for computer programming
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Composite video, an analogue video signal format
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Composite portrait, a compositing of images such as faces to produce an
Ideal type
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Composite ship, a marine vessel with a design incorporating both wood and metal for the body
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Composite bow
A composite bow is a traditional bow made from horn, wood, and sinew laminated together, a form of laminated bow. The horn is on the belly, facing the archer, and sinew on the outer side of a wooden core. When the bow is drawn, the sinew (s ...
, in archery, made of multiple materials, in contrast to an all-wood bow
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Compositing window manager, a window manager that gives every window an off-screen buffer
Other
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Composite card, a marketing tool for actors and models
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Composite character, a character in an adaptation of a work formed from two or more characters from the original work
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Composite order, in architecture, a type of capital on a column
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Composite motion, in parliamentary procedure, created by assimilating multiple motions into one
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Facial composite, an approximate likeness of a person's face based on an eyewitness's description
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Composite (finance), a proxy for financial markets performance
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Composite coach, a railway carriage with seating for more than one class of passenger
See also
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Compound (disambiguation)
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