Composite or compositing may refer to:
Materials
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Composite material
A composite or composite material (also composition material) is a material which is produced from two or more constituent materials. These constituent materials have notably dissimilar chemical or physical properties and are merged to create a ...
, 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 in most cases at least one is a metal, metallic element, although it is also sometimes used for mixtures of elements; herein only metallic alloys are described. Metallic alloys often have prop ...
, a mixture of a metal and another element
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Mixture
In chemistry, a mixture is a material made up of two or more different chemical substances which can be separated by physical method. It is an impure substance made up of 2 or more elements or compounds mechanically mixed together in any proporti ...
, 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. Accordingly it is a positive integer that has at least one divisor other than 1 and itself. Every positive integer is composite, prime numb ...
, 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, a
statistical
Statistics (from German language, German: ', "description of a State (polity), state, a country") is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data. In applying statistics to a s ...
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. ...
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
Ideal type (), also known as pure type, is a typological term most closely associated with the sociologist Max Weber (1864–1920). For Weber, the conduct of social science depends upon the construction of abstract, hypothetical concepts. The "id ...
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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, 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 monarchy, a category for several countries under one ruler
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Composite motion, in parliamentary procedure, created by assimilating multiple motions into one
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Composite order, in architecture, a type of capital on a column
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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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