Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not composite; uncompounded; simple.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Not composite; uncompounded; simple.
  • adjective See Prime numbers, under Prime.

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  • adjective Not composite; simple or single.
  • adjective mathematics prime

Etymologies

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Latin incompositus. See composite.

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Examples

  • Then in the Affinity Argument we discover that Forms are simple or incomposite, of one form (monoeidetic), whereas particulars are complex, divisible and of many forms.

    Plato's Middle Period Metaphysics and Epistemology Silverman, Allan 2008

  • If no substance can consist of universals because a universal indicates a ‘such’, not a ‘this’, and if no substance can be composed of substances existing in complete reality, every substance would be incomposite, so that there would not even be a formula of any substance.

    Metaphysics Aristotle 2002

  • Now contraries do not involve one another in their composition, and are therefore first principles; but the intermediates are either all incomposite, or none of them.

    Metaphysics Aristotle 2002

  • (For things which are in the same genus must be composed of terms in which the genus is not an element, or else be themselves incomposite.)

    Metaphysics Aristotle 2002

  • Being immaterial and incomposite, angels are immortal.

    The Angels and Us Mortimer J. Adler 1982

  • The only objects of knowledge are Forms — unique, incomposite, immaterial entities of which the particular objects of perception are only fleeting replicas.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas ANTHONY A. LONG 1968

  • In so far as God wills good to others, the love which is in God is an incomposite binding power.

    Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas 1954

  • The only objects of knowledge are Forms — unique, incomposite, immaterial entities of which the particular objects of perception are only fleeting replicas.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas 1925

  • A spirit is something that is fine and light and incomposite.

    A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy Isaac Husik 1907

  • Anything more pitifully crude and feeble, more helplessly inartistic and incomposite, than this process or pretence of juncture where there is no juncture, this infantine shifting and shuffling of the scenes and figures, it is impossible to find among the rudest and weakest attempts of the dawning or declining drama in its first or second childhood.

    A Study of Shakespeare Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873

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