As for the term " Compositae ", more ancient but still valid, it obviously makes reference to the fact that the family is one of the few angiosperms that have composite flowers.

They were originally made from lignum vitae, a dense wood giving rise to the term " woods " for bowls, but are now more typically made of a hard plastic composite material.

However, in 1985, Jim Bradbury reclassified this weapon as the ordinary wooden bow, reserving the term shortbow for short composite bows and arguing that longbows were a developed form of this ordinary bow.

By the 1990s, the term was in wide use, even in formal engineering papers such as " Towards unobtainium < nowiki > composite materials for space applications < nowiki ></ nowiki >.

The term " Holy See " refers to the composite of the authority, jurisdiction, and sovereignty vested in the Pope and his advisers to direct the worldwide Roman Catholic Church.

Brown is a color term, denoting a range of composite colors produced by a mixture of orange, red, rose, or yellow with black or gray.

These analyses indicate that although " there is an overlap of the implicit theory of wisdom with intelligence, perceptiveness, spirituality and shrewdness, it is evident that wisdom is a distinct term and not a composite of other terms.

" Novus Ordo Missae ", or simply " Novus Ordo ", later became a specific composite term used to refer to the revised rite of Mass in its entirety.

# Fibonacci used a composite fraction notation in which a sequence of numerators and denominators shared the same fraction bar ; each such term represented an additional fraction of the given numerator divided by the product of all the denominators below and to the right of it.

Journalist Bruno de Latour coined the term domotic in 1984. Domotic has been recently introduced in vocabulary as a composite word of Latin word domus and informatics, or a contraction of domestic robotics, and it refers to intelligent houses meaning the use of the automation technologies and computer science applied to the home.

The term " strong liar " refers to the case where n is composite but nevertheless the equations hold as they would for a prime.

The critic John Chapple, for example, has used the term as an illustration of his own concept of " composite history.

The Buddhist term anatta ( Pāli ) or anātman ( Sanskrit ) is used in the sutras both as a noun and as a predicative adjective to denote that phenomena are not, or are without, a Self, to describe any and all composite, consubstantial, phenomenal and temporal things, from the macrocosmic to microcosmic, be it matter pertaining to the physical body or the cosmos at large, as well as any and all mental machinations, which are impermanent.

The Mahaparinirvana Sutra, a long and highly composite Mahayana scripture, refers to the Buddha using the term " Self " in order to win over non-Buddhist ascetics.

* Novus Ordo, a composite term for the post-1969 Roman Rite Mass

Formally, the case where only a subset of parameters is defined is still a composite hypothesis ; nonetheless, the term point hypothesis is often applied in such cases, particularly where the hypothesis test can be structured in such a way that the distribution of the test statistic ( the distribution under the null hypothesis ) does not depend on the parameters whose values have not been specified under the point null hypothesis.

In US English, a walkway is a composite or umbrella term for all engineered surfaces or structures which support the use of trails.

Political scientist Brendan O ' Connor suggests that Anti-Americanism cannot be isolated as a consistent phenomenon and that the term originated as a rough composite of stereotypes, prejudices and criticisms towards Americans or the United States, evolving to more politically-based criticism.

The term emerged in the 1880s to mean simply an unmanipulated photographic print, in opposition to the composite prints of Henry Peach Robinson or the soft focus painterly images of some pictorialist photographers.

We see that for composite n every term n # simply duplicates the preceding term ( n − 1 )#, as given in the definition.

The title Anzac indicated its composite Australian and New Zealand units and as such was possibly the first official use of this term for this purpose, rather than as a designation for an army corps.

While GRP, wood, and even concrete hulls are technically made of composite materials, the term " composite " is often used for plastics reinforced with fibers other than ( or in addition to ) glass.

Even though in most cases the completion of the definitive editions of their writings is still years off, enough documentation has already been assembled to warrant drawing a new composite profile of the leadership which performed the heroic dual feats of winning American independence and founding a new nation.

Lung type 3 ( ( fig. 3 ) is to some degree a composite of types 1, and 2.

To avoid this contradiction it is necessary that C be composite, with the secant of **zg and a curve of order Af as components.

An adobe brick is a composite material made of clay mixed with water and an organic material such as straw or dung.

Asterales ( AST-er-ALE '- eez ) is an order of dicotyledonous flowering plants that includes the large family Asteraceae ( or Compositae ) known for composite flowers made of florets, and ten families related to the Asteraceae.

The main feature of the family is the composite flower type in the form of capitula surrounded by involucral bracts. The name " Asteraceae " comes from Aster, the most prominent generum in the family, that derives from the Greek ἀστήρ meaning star, and is connected with its inflorescence star form.

In a great majority of instances the name Abrasax is associated with a singular composite figure, having a Chimera-like appearance somewhat resembling a basilisk or the Greek primordial god Chronos ( not to be confused with the Greek titan Cronus ).

For this reason, knowing whether a file uses premultiplied or straight alpha is essential to correctly process or composite it.

A trend toward composite armour is taking place in place of steel-composites are stronger for a given weight, allowing the tank to be lighter for the same protection as steel armour, or better protected for the same weight.

The video carrier is demodulated to give a composite video signal ; this contains luminance, chrominance and synchronization signals ; this is identical to the video signal format used by analog video devices such as VCRs or CCTV cameras.

Kiernan argues against an 8th-century provenance because this would still require that the poem be transmitted by Anglo-Saxons through the Viking Age, holds that the paleographic and codicological evidence encourages the belief that Beowulf is an 11th-century composite poem, and states that Scribe A and Scribe B are the authors and that Scribe B is the more poignant of the two.

The primary tissue of bone, osseous tissue, is a relatively hard and lightweight composite material, formed mostly of calcium phosphate in the chemical arrangement termed calcium hydroxylapatite ( this is the osseous tissue that gives bones their rigidity ).

In quantum mechanics, this is used for describing composite systems.

A baryon is a composite subatomic particle made up of three quarks ( as distinct from mesons, which comprise one quark and one antiquark ).

Plastics are made from fossil hydrocarbons, and carbon fiber, made by pyrolysis of synthetic polyester fibers is used to reinforce plastics to form advanced, lightweight composite materials.

Concrete is a composite construction material composed primarily of aggregate, cement, and water.

Water is then mixed with this dry composite, which enables it to be shaped ( typically poured ) and then solidified and hardened into rock-hard strength through a chemical process called hydration.

That is, if f is a function and g is a function, then the chain rule expresses the derivative of the composite function in terms of the derivatives of f and g.

' Compositae ', an older but still valid name, means composite and refers to the characteristic inflorescence, a special type of pseudanthium found in only a few other angiosperm families.

Gluten ( from Latin gluten, " glue ") is a protein composite found in foods processed from wheat and related grain species, including barley and rye.

They were utilised with wood, bone, resin and fiber to form a composite tool or weapon, and traces of wood to which microliths were attached have been found in Sweden, Denmark and England.

Tests carried out on the vertical stabilizers from the accident aircraft, and from another similar aircraft, found that the strength of the composite material had not been compromised, and the NTSB concluded that the material had failed because it had been stressed beyond its design limit, despite ten previous recorded incidents where A300 tail fins had been stressed beyond their design limitation in which none resulted in the separation of the vertical stabilizer in-flight.

The most important recent developments for small aircraft ( which form the bulk of the GA fleet ) have been the introduction of advanced avionics ( including GPS ) that were formerly found only in large airliners, and the introduction of composite materials to make small aircraft lighter and faster.

* Divisor Plot ( patterns found in large composite numbers )

Though slower than the 132 MHz Power Macintosh 9500, the first-generation 8500 featured several audio and video ( S-Video and composite video ) in / out ports not found in the 9500.

The evacuees were the typical mix found in any contested evacuation — substantially intact units under their own command, composite units hurriedly brought together by leaders on the spot, stragglers without leaders from every type of unit possessed by an army, and deserters.

They are often found in composite flowers.

After several iterations, if n is not found to be a composite number, then it can be declared probably prime.

21 has an aliquot sum of 11 though it is the second composite number found in the 11-aliquot tree with the abundant square prime 18 being the first such member.

The pion is a composite particle ; no spinless elementary particles have yet been found, although the Higgs boson is theorized to exist as a spin-zero boson, according to the Standard Model.

After averaging together photographs of violent criminals, he found that the composite appeared " more respectable " than any of the faces comprising it ; this was likely due to the irregularities of the skin across the constituent images being averaged out in the final blend.

The same composite video port found on earlier Apple II models remained present ; however, gone were the cassette ports and internal DIP-16 game port.

In wired video connections, composite video retains the integrated subcarrier signal structure found in the transmitted baseband signal, while S-Video places the chrominance and luminance subcarriers on separate wires to eliminate subcarrier crosstalk and enhance the signal bandwidth and strength ( picture sharpness and brightness ).

The main palace at Ebla was also found to contain " antiques " dating from Ancient Egypt with the names of pharaohs Khafra and Pepi I. Handicrafts may also have been a major export: exquisite artifacts have been recovered from the ruins, including wood furniture inlaid with mother-of-pearl and composite statues created from different colored stones.

The internal structure was largely constructed with graphite composite / aluminum honeycomb supports, a design found in many commercial airplanes.

The standard weapon of Roman imperial archers was a composite recurve, and the stiffening laths ( also called siyah in Arabic / Asian bows and szarv ( horns ) in Hungarian bows ) used to form the actual recurved ends have been found on Roman sites throughout the Empire, as far north as Bar Hill on the Antonine Wall in Scotland.

Such composite creatures are found in many mythologies.

22 has an aliquot sum of 14 and is the fifth composite number found in the 7-aliquot tree.

Next year the 1969 Springbok tour to Britain and Ireland found a new spirit and confidence had developed in Home nations rugby, and the tourists lost two of their seven games in Wales — against Newport and a composite side from Monmouthshire.

Examples can be found in composite flowers and seed heads.

The DNA arrangement forms a composite transposon whose presence has been confirmed by the complete bovine genomic sequence where the mobilized sequence may be found on bovine chromosome 15 in contig NW_001493315. 1 nucleotides # 1085432 – 1086142 and the originating sequence may be found on bovine chromosome 2 in contig NW_001501789. 2 nucleotides # 1096679 – 1097389.