supercomposite

English

Etymology

super +‎ composite

Noun

supercomposite (plural supercomposites)

1. An amalgam of composites; a combination of elements that are themselves combinations.
   • 1979, Eliot Slater, Martin Roth, Brian Barraclough, Psychiatry, genetics and pathography: a tribute to Eliot Slater, page 168:

     It is against this background, where a need for simplicity can already be detected, that Kraepelin brought about his supreme effort of synthesis by reducing the multifarious field of simple and composite psychoses to what can be called 'the two supercomposite insanities', dementia praecox and manic-depressive insanity.

   • 1996, Pamela Diane Owens, Corporate Decision Making Cultures and Organizational Outcomes:

     In order to determine if the amount of variance explained by drifters was significantly higher than that of groupthink, I created a supercomposite by collapsing across all unsuccessful cases.

   • 2006, Bloomberg Markets - Volume 15:

     Waller and the three other members of Icon's investment team start with a pool of about 1,950 stocks, based on the Standard & Poor's 1500 Supercomposite Index.

   • 2007, Central and Southern Florida Project, Caloosahatchee River (C-43) West Basin Storage Reservoir: Final Project Implementation Report:

     To conserve resources at large projects, sub-samples or aliquots from each of the soil samples from the five different locations can be pooled to form a single supercomposite sample for each OU or 1,000 acres.

2. (nuclear physics) A model of subatomic particles that combines supersymmetry with the study of composite particles.
   • 1988, H. V. Klapdor, Hans Volker Klapdor-Kleingrothaus, Bogdan Povh, Neutrino physics:

     Supersymmetry and compositeness can be combined to yield supercomposite models, which are characterized by two different energy scales: Ms, where supersymmetry breaking occurs, and Mc, the scale of compositeness.

   • 1996, Benito Arruñada, Gary D. Westfall, Advances in Nuclear Dynamics 2, →ISBN, page 323:

     However it is formed, the sharp pair decay of this supercomposite state is expected to dominate over the One-Photon decay (and also over the e⁺e^-γ), and (γγ) decays) and therefore to contradict the γ dominance expected for a conventional IPC process.

3. (materials science) Any of several high-performance structural composite materials.
   • 1981, Res Mechanica Letters - Volumes 1-2, page 139:

     In a supercomposite, SC (n >2), on the other hand, a mono/multi-phase matrix can be reinforced by single or composite fibre/particle complex phases to impart non-structural properties also, such as heat resistance, for example.

   • 2012, J.K. Tien, Superalloys, supercomposites and superceramics:

     Superalloys, Supercomposites and Superceramics reviews the state of superalloy technology and some of the more salient aspects of alternative high temperature systems such as superceramics and supercomposites.