The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word COMPOSITE
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What does COMPOSITE mean?
COMPOSITE noun- A mixture of different components.
- A structural material that gains its strength from a combination of complementary materials.
- A plant belonging to the family Asteraceae, syn. Compositae.
- A function of a function.
- (chiefly law enforcement) A drawing, photograph, etc. that combines several separate pictures or images.
- To make a composite.
- Made up of multiple components; compound or complex.
- Being a mixture of Ionic and Corinthian styles.
- Having factors other than itself and one; not prime and not one.
- Belonging to the Asteraceae family (formerly known as Compositae), bearing involucrate heads of many small florets.
- Employing multiple exposures on a single plate, so as to create an average view of something, such as faces in physiognomy.
- A (nonzero) natural number that is expressible as the product of two (or more) natural numbers other than itself and 1.