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Composite vs Compositional - What's the difference?

composite | compositional |

As adjectives the difference between composite and compositional

is that composite is made up of multiple components; compound or complex while compositional is of or pertaining to composition.

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.

    Related terms

    * compositry ----

    compositional

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to composition.
    • The compositional aspects of this work are less than ideal.
  • (linguistics) Being the sum of its parts.
    • The phrase "sum of its parts" is entirely compositional .
  • * {{quote-book, year=1979, title=The Signs of Language, author=Edward S. Klima & Ursula Bellugi, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=WeBOn6N8PJ8C&pg=PA202, page=202
    • , passage=A wet súit'' meaning a suit that is wet is a compositional phrase; a ''wét suit meaning a garment worn by skin divers is a compound.}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=2003, title=The German Language: A Linguistic Introduction, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=-snifythVR4C&pg=PA153, page=153, author=Jean Boase-Beier & Ken R. Lodge
    • , passage=We have already noted that compounds tend to have meanings that are not entirely compositional and would therefore need to be listed.}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=2004, title=Ontological Semantics, author=Sergei Nirenburg & Victor Raskin, page=106, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=OPek3LpMIigC&pg=PA106
    • , passage=Sentence meaning is compositional because, to a large extent, it depends on a combination of the meanings of sentence constituents, which implies the concept of semantic structure.}}

    Derived terms

    * compositionality * compositionally