composite - a material made from two or more other materials. For example, concrete reinforced with steel rods is a composite. In the field of polymers, an resin reinforced with Stephanie Kwolek's Kevlar¨ is a composite as well. The polypeptide-calcium phosphate materials that Linneaus Dorman helped create also are composites.

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