composite
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The S&P 500 lost 37 points, or 0.48%, to 7619.98 and the tech-heavy Nasdaq composite fell 146.62 points, or 0.56%, to 26186.41.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
All three major U.S. stock indexes fell Wednesday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropping 0.8%, the S&P 500 falling 0.5%, and the Nasdaq composite losing 0.6%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
Hadrons are composite particles containing two or more quarks held together by the strong nuclear force.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 2, 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
At his side he held a black composite bow almost as fancy as his eyes.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
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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
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 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
It will be observed that four at least of the six composites are closely alike.
From Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development by Sir Francis Galton
“We composited the flawed live-action material on top of the CG,” Bashore says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2023
The more people are represented in the composited excreta, the cheaper the technology gets and the more powerful public health protection becomes.
From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2021
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
Collage, as a technique, anticipates the generalized stage of sampling and compositing.
From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin
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