Made up of distinct parts or elements; compounded; especially, so combined as to manifest diversity of origin or make-up.Specifically Made of parts so combined as to lose their distinctive characters.[capitalized] In architecture, an epithet applied to the last of the five orders, because the capital which characterizes it is composed from those of other orders, borrowing a quarter-round from the Tuscan or Roman Doric, a rank of leaves from the Corinthian, and volutes from the Ionic.In ship-building, having a wooden skin on an iron framework: as, a composite vessel; a vessel built on the composite principle.In botany, belonging to the order Compositœ; having the characters of this order: as, a composite plant; a composite flower. See Compositæ.In zoology, marked (as a genus, order, etc.) by wide range of variation in the species or other subdivisions which constitute it: often applied to artificial groups composed of widely separated elements.n. Something made up of parts or different elements; a compound; a composition.n. Specifically, a composite photograph.n. In botany, one of the Compositæ.