Other forms: composites
A composite is something made of several distinct parts combined. A composite image, composite materials, a composite of both accounts.
In engineering it means a material built from two others, like carbon fibre set in resin, which is stronger than either alone. A composite photograph is assembled from several, which police once used for faces.
1nouncompositeSomething made of several distinct parts combined.
“The portrait was a composite of three different witnesses' accounts.”
composite is a combination.
Latin compositus is the past participle of componere, to put together, from com plus ponere, to place.
Latin
compositus
Middle French
composite
English, today
composite
Built from
Borrowed from Middle French composite, from Latin compositus, past participle of compōnō (“put together”). a doublet of compost and compote and kompot.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA