Word.ws English Dictionary

composant

composant is the alternative form of corposant.

Meaning of corposant

Noun

corposant (plural corposants)

  1. An electrical discharge accompanied by a corona of ionization in the surrounding atmosphere
    • I said the corpusants have mercy on us all; and I hope they will, still. But do they only have mercy on long faces?--have they no bowels for a laugh? […] I take that mast-head flame we saw for a sign of good luck; for those masts are rooted in a hold that is going to be chock a' block with...1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 498

Forms of composant

pluralcomposants

Questions about composant

What is composant the alternative form of?
Composant is the alternative form of corposant.

Words near composant in the dictionary

  1. comports
  2. compos
  3. compos mentis
  4. composability
  5. composable
  6. composant
  7. compose
  8. composed
  9. composed salad
  10. composed salads
  11. composedly

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: composant (page history and authors); corposant (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “composant.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/composant. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.