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composite

[kuhm-poz-it] / kəmˈpɒz ɪt /




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"It's a composite image. Each member of this family has several prototypes," the guide explained.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

The S&P 500 gained 0.2% and the Nasdaq composite also added less than 0.1%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

Japan survey data was less upbeat, with September’s composite indicator of manufacturing performance turning in the softest pace of growth in six months.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

The Nasdaq composite and the S&P 500 are on pace to finish with double-digit gains for the fourth straight year, a first since the late 1990s.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

Orson Welles rehearses The Campbell Playhouse in this 1938 CBS publicity composite.

From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow

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

Repeating this process multiple times allows them to create composites with very high metal content.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 9, 2025

Sem′i-flos′culōse, Sem′i-flos′culous, having the corolla split, flattened out, and turned to one side, as in the ligular flowers of composites; Semiflu′id, half or imperfectly fluid; Sem′i-formed, half-formed.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

She does concede now that some timelines have been altered and characters composited.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 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

Right: True Tone in yellow light composited into the blue light image.

From The Verge ● Jul. 13, 2018

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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