Composite or compositing may refer to:
Materials
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Composite material, 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
Dental composite resins (better referred to as "resin-based composites" or simply "filled resins") are dental cements made of synthetic resins. Synthetic resins evolved as restorative materials since they were insoluble, of good tooth-like appea ...
, a substance used to fill cavities in teeth
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Composite armor
Composite armour is a type of vehicle armour consisting of layers of different material such as metals, plastics, ceramics or air. Most composite armours are lighter than their all-metal equivalent, but instead occupy a larger volume for the sam ...
, a type of tank armor
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Alloy, 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 are not chemically bonded. A mixture is the physical combination of two or more substances in which the identities are retained and are mixed in the ...
, the combination of several different substances without chemical reaction
Mathematics
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Composite number, 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
* Compositing, another name for
superposed epoch analysis Superposed epoch analysis (SPE or SEA), also called Chree analysis after a paper by Charles Chree
that employed the technique, is a statistical tool used in data analysis either to detect periodicities within a time sequence or to reveal a correl ...
, a
statistical
Statistics (from German: ''Statistik'', "description of a state, a country") is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data. In applying statistics to a scientific, industria ...
method used to analyze
time series 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
Digital compositing is the process of digitally assembling multiple images to make a final image, typically for print, motion pictures or screen display. It is the digital analogue of optical film compositing.
Mathematics
The basic operation use ...
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Composite pattern, a software design pattern used for computer programming
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Composite video
Composite video is an analog video signal format that carries standard-definition video (typically at 525 lines or 625 lines) as a single channel. Video information is encoded on one channel, unlike the higher-quality S-Video (two channels) a ...
, 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 (german: Idealtypus), also known as pure type, is a typological term most closely associated with sociologist Max Weber (1864–1920). For Weber, the conduct of social science depends upon the construction of abstract, hypothetical co ...
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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 compositing window manager, or compositor, is a window manager that provides applications with an off-screen data buffer, buffer for each window. The window manager Compositing, composites the window buffers into an image representing the screen ...
, 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 order, in architecture, a type of capital on a column
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Composite motion, in parliamentary procedure, created by assimilating multiple motions into one
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Facial composite
A facial composite is a graphical representation of one or more eyewitnesses' memories of a face, as recorded by a composite artist. Facial composites are used mainly by police in their investigation of (usually serious) crimes. These images a ...
, 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)
Compound may refer to:
Architecture and built environments
* Compound (enclosure), a cluster of buildings having a shared purpose, usually inside a fence or wall
** Compound (fortification), a version of the above fortified with defensive struct ...
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