Thesaurus.com
Dictionary.com
Showing results for composite. Search instead for komposite.
Definitions

composite

[kuhm-poz-it] / kəmˈpɒz ɪt /




Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

See Examples For:

Broader market indexes like the S&P 500 and Nasdaq composite are still positive for the year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

The Magnificent Seven lost about $1 trillion in market value, chip stocks had their worst day since the pandemic, and the Nasdaq composite entered a correction after shedding an estimated $2.5 trillion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

The tech selloff continued to kick off the week, with the Nasdaq composite slumping 1.1%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

It also weighed on major U.S. stock indexes, fueling a decline in the Nasdaq composite and amplifying fears that the costs of the global AI build-out may be outrunning the returns.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

A child was an ancestral composite, but a supremely simple one: one-half from the mother, one-half from the father.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

I was somewhat disappointed to learn that Gomez’s paintings are not based on spontaneous discoveries but on composites of photos he’s taken around the city.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2026

The “industry demand backdrop is red hot,” wrote William Blair analyst Louie DiPalma on Thursday, adding that Seemann is a leader in advanced composites.

From Barron's ● Jan. 22, 2026

It also plays a large role in pesticides, chemicals for drilling and refining, and the specialized compounds, coatings and composites used in advanced electronics and defense manufacturing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 30, 2025

Repeating this process multiple times allows them to create composites with very high metal content.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 9, 2025

I have met with it, amongst other plants, frequently in Brassica oleracea, Pelargonium zonale, Scabiosa, Bellis, and many other composites, also in Leguminosæ, e.g.

From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Maxwell T. Masters

Mara Wilson wrote, “And what about the hundreds of living young women whose faces were composited together to make her? You couldn’t hire any of them?”

From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2025

“We composited the flawed live-action material on top of the CG,” Bashore says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2023

Many minor characters from Dickens’ book are composited or eliminated altogether—and with good reason, since otherwise the cast list would be at least double the size.

From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2020

The finished piece is an intricate tapestry of figures who were digitally composited together – bringing people together virtually, a fitting strategy in the epicenter of social media.

From The Guardian ● May 31, 2019

On August 15, 1950, leaf samples for chemical analyses were taken from each tree in all replications and composited by treatments into six samples.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Forty-Second Annual Meeting Urbana, Illinois, August 28, 29 and 30, 1951 by Northern Nut Growers Association

Henderson worked on the show with Will Anderson, the former as a stop-motion animator, the latter on digital animation, 2-D animation, compositing and finishing shots.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

Uelsmann became influential in the 1960s by compositing images using multiple enlargers, which are specialized transparency projectors used to produce photographic prints from negatives.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 6, 2022

The featurettes include words from the director, production designer Jess Gonchor, visual effect supervisor Scott Farrar, compositing supervisor Chris Balog, cinematographer Polly Morgan, to name a few, and all of the primary cast.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 26, 2021

Most pesticides and herbicides are broken down by heat and microbes during the compositing process and the pesticide residue in the final compost is negligible.

From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2021

That was too wonderful, Mamma, everything happening in a vast room on one floor; compositing, typewriting, printing, and sorting.

From Elizabeth Visits America by Elinor Glyn


Vocabulary lists containing composite

Random Word

Spin the wheel and learn a new word!

Get a word

Vocabulary.com logo
by dictionary.com

Dictionary.com's Learning Companion

Go beyond just looking up words.
Remember them forever with VocabTrainer.

Start training