composite

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The latter being necessarily disposed equally on both sides of the average, the outline of the composite is the average of all the components.

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  1. adjective Made up of distinct components; compound.
  2. adjective Mathematics Having factors; factorable.
  3. adjective Botany Of, belonging to, or characteristic of the composite family.

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  • Taken together as a composite, these three data points (death, heart attack, and stroke) show that PCI and bypass surgery stack up overall as equally safe options for patients with left main and multi-vessel coronary artery disease. —  Presseportal
  • The primary endpoint was clinical response rates at day 90, defined as a composite of improvement in National Institutes of Health stroke scale (NIHSS) score of 8 points or more or an NIHSS score of 1 point or less, a modified Rankin scale score of 0-2 points, and a Barthel index of 75-100. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • I hooked up my noname DVD player to the TV via composite, which is realize is crap, but even still things were pretty great. —  The Tomorrow Times
  • Duration of treatment was event-driven and the trial lasted until at least 1450 patients had reached a primary endpoint, defined as a composite of cardiac mortality and morbidity. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • There's apparently a major row going on over the composite which is now something in the region of 2 ½ sides of A4, and it denounces govt attacks on public sector pay properly and comprehensively. —  Union Futures
 

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  1. French, from Old French, from Latin compositus, past participle of compōnere, to put together; see component.

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  1. from Latin compositus, past participle of componere, put together: see compose, compound, v.
 

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/kəmˈpɑzɪt/
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