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Many ingredients, one identity — nobody's checking the recipe anymore.
means Made up of several distinct parts combined into a single whole.
from From Latin compositus, past participle of componere — 'com-' (together) plus 'ponere' (to put or place). So literally 'put together,' a word that has described blended things, from sketches to materials to numbers, since it entered English in the 1500s.
- math meaning
- any whole number with factors beyond 1 and itself
- police use
- sketch built from witness-described facial fragments
- materials science
- combines two materials to beat either one alone
- opposite number
- prime numbers refuse to be composite, ever