composite

Made by combining several separate parts or materials.

• The door is made from composite material.
• She created a composite image from three photographs.
• The bridge has a lightweight composite structure.

Similar words: combined, compound

Common phrases: composite material, composite image, composite structure

An object or material made by combining several different parts.

• The panel is a lightweight composite.
• This image is a composite of several photographs.
• Engineers tested new composites for aircraft wings.

How to use it: a composite of things (Her portrait is a composite of two photographs.)

Similar words: combination, compound

Common phrases: a composite, composite of something, carbon composite

To combine separate parts, especially images, into one finished object.

• We composite images on a computer.
• She composited the actor onto a different background.
• The editor composited several layers to create the final scene.

How to use it: composite something onto something (They composited the spaceship onto the night sky.); composite things together (The artist composited the photographs together.)

Similar words: combine, merge

Common phrases: composite images, composite something onto, composite something together