| 释义 |
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024com•pos•ite /kəmˈpɑzɪt/USA pronunciation adj. - made up of different elements;
blended;
compound: The artist made a composite drawing of the two faces.
n. [countable] - something made up of different or separate parts;
a blend:My job is a composite of teacher, boss, and administrator.
com•pos•ite•ly, adv. See -pos-. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024com•pos•ite (kəm poz′it),USA pronunciation adj., n., v., -it•ed, -it•ing. adj. - made up of disparate or separate parts or elements;
compound:a composite drawing; a composite philosophy. - Plant Biology[Bot.]belonging to the Compositae. Cf. composite family.
- Architecture(cap.) noting or pertaining to one of the five classical orders, popular esp. since the beginning of the Renaissance but invented by the ancient Romans, in which the Roman Ionic and Corinthian orders are combined, so that four diagonally set Ionic volutes, variously ornamented, rest upon a bell of Corinthian acanthus leaves. Cf. Corinthian (def. 2), Doric (def. 3), Ionic (def. 1), Tuscan (def. 2). See illus. under order.
- Rocketry
- (of a rocket or missile) having more than one stage.
- (of a solid propellant) composed of a mixture of fuel and oxidizer.
- Nautical, Naval Termsnoting a vessel having frames of one material and shells and decking of another, esp. one having iron or steel frames with shells and decks planked.
- Mathematicsof or pertaining to a composite function or a composite number.
n. - something composite;
a compound. - [Bot.]a composite plant.
- Photography, Fine Arta picture, photograph, or the like, that combines several separate pictures.
v.t. - to make a composite of.
- Latin compositus (past participle of compōnere to put together), equivalent. to com- com- + positus placed; see posit
- Middle French)
- Middle English (1350–1400
|