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composite

/ˈkɒmpəzɪt/

B1CEFR level
30/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister

Medicine noun

A tooth-coloured restorative material of resin matrix and inorganic filler particles.

A layered composite restored the fractured incisal edge almost imperceptibly.

Topic: Dentistry in Medical English

Law adjective

Treated as a single whole made up of several linked transactions.

The court analysed the composite transaction as one disposal rather than as its artificial components.

Similar: combined

Topic: Tax law in Legal English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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