Composite

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Composite may refer to:

Acting, Film, and Studio

• Composite card, a marketing tool for actors and especially models
• Composite character, a character in an adaptation of a work formed from two or more characters from the original work
• Composite video, a video signal which combines all the elements of the picture
• Digital compositing or optical film compositing, a common 2-D visual effects technique

Mathematics

• Composite number, an integer greater than one that is not a prime number
• A function composition, a composite of two math functions

Nature

• The family Compositae or "composite family", the largest family of flowering plants; now called Asteraceae
• Composite volcano, a tall, conical volcano composed of many layers of hardened lava, tephra, and volcanic ash

Materials

• Composite material, a material that is made from several different substances
• Dental composite, a substance used to fill cavities in teeth
• Alloy, a composite of a metal and another element
• Metal matrix composite, a composite material with at least two constituent parts, one being a metal
• Cermet, a composite material composed of ceramic (cer) and metallic (met) materials
• Mixture, a composite made by combining two or more different materials with no chemical reaction occurring

Science and Technology

• Composite particle, a particle which is made up of smaller particles
• Composite pattern, a software design pattern used for computer programming
• Composite video, a format of analog video signal

Other

• Composite order, in architecture, a type of capital on a column
• Compositing (democracy), the process of combining several motions into a composite motion
• Facial composite, an estimated likeness of a face made from an eyewitnesses description