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composite

[kuhm-poz-it] / kəmˈpɒz ɪt /




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The S&P 500 fell 0.4%, while the Nasdaq composite was 0.3% lower.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 4, 2026

The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose around 624 points, or 1.2%, while the S&P 500 added 1.1% and the Nasdaq composite climbed 1.4%.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 3, 2026

Scientists have also proposed that it could be a four-quark configuration called a tetraquark or a molecule-like combination of other composite particles.

From Science Daily Sep. 2, 2026

Hadrons are composite particles containing two or more quarks held together by the strong nuclear force.

From Science Daily Sep. 2, 2026

The pressure compartment is made of carbon composite.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

Characters played by Banderas and Leo Woodall are composites of figures Bourdain knew during his time in Cape Cod.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

The wrestling coach at the American school in Tokyo, Ernst’s glamorous courtesan Chizuko, and many of the characters are composites.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 8, 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 was the first commercial plane to be built primarily of composites such as carbon fibre, rather than aluminium, in order to reduce weight.

From BBC Jun. 29, 2025

Telescopes have to pierce so thick a stratum of earth's aura and ether that it is expectable they, would show us only our own composites in those of other worlds.

From My Life as an Author by Martin Farquhar Tupper

“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

The water pseudopod was basically digitally created but optically composited.

From The Verge Aug. 8, 2014

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

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

The philosophy for the VFX was rooted in in-camera shooting — to harness compositing or CG only when necessary.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 23, 2021

The assemblages of animals and plants compositing that fauna and flora did not appear in the area they now inhabit simultaneously, but at several distinct points in time.

From COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 by Alexander von Humboldt




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