Composite vs Incongruous - What's the difference?

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Composite is a related term of incongruous.

As adjectives the difference between composite and incongruous

is that composite is made up of multiple components; compound or complex while incongruous is not similar or congruent; not matching or fitting in.

As a noun composite

is a mixture of different components.

As a verb composite

is to make a composite.

composite

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Made up of multiple components; compound or complex.

(architecture) Being a mixture of Ionic and Corinthian styles.

(mathematics) Not prime; having factors.

(botany) Being a member of the Asteraceae family (formerly known as Compositae), bearing involucrate heads of many small florets.

Derived terms

* composite bow * composite sketch

Noun

(en noun)

A mixture of different components.

A structural material that gains its strength from a combination of complementary materials.

(botany) A plant belonging to the family Compositae .

(mathematics) A function of a function.

(chiefly, law enforcement) A drawing, photograph, or the like, that combines several separate pictures or images.

Derived terms

* DYC

Verb

(composit)

To make a composite.

I composited an image using computer software.

incongruous

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Not similar or congruent; not matching or fitting in.

* 1853 , , Villette , ch. 34:

[P]erhaps he thought me, with my basket of summer fruit, and my lack of the dignity age confers, an incongruous figure in such a scene.

Ona was blue-eyed and fair, while Jurgis had great black eyes with beetling brows, and thick black hair that curled in waves about his ears—in short, they were one of those incongruous and impossible married couples with which Mother Nature so often wills to confound all prophets.

* 1912 , , A Son Of The Sun m ch. 1:

Ardent suns had likewise tanned his face till it was swarthy as a Spaniard's. The yellow mustache appeared incongruous in the midst of such swarthiness.

* 2014 , Daniel Taylor, England and Wayne Rooney see off Scotland in their own back yard'' (in ''The Guardian , 18 November 2014)[http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/nov/18/scotland-england-international-friendly-match-report]

For a few moments England toyed with the idea of making it a more difficult night than necessary. Scotland had scored a goal that seemed incongruous to the rest of their performance and, briefly, a fiercely partisan crowd sensed an improbable comeback.

(math) Of two numbers, with respect to a third, such that their difference can not be divided by it without a remainder.

20 and 25 are incongruous with respect to 4.

Derived terms

* incongruously * incongruousness