The phrase "a kind of composite" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is made up of various elements or components, often in a way that suggests a mixture or combination.
Example: "The artwork is a kind of composite, blending different styles and techniques to create a unique piece."
Alternatives: "a type of mixture" or "a form of amalgamation".
Its contents provide a kind of composite portrait of the Hollywood thoroughbred.
When the dust had settled, the New York Times, summarising, decided that its survey supplied 'a rich, if partial and unscientific, picture of the state of American literature, a kind of composite self-portrait'.
The columnist, according to Mr. Platt, is a kind of composite of Jimmy Breslin, Mike McAlary, Murray Kempton and Mike Royko (although it's unlikely that these columnists used graduate students to help them).
The results - in some respects quite surprising, in others not at all - provide a rich, if partial and unscientific, picture of the state of American literature, a kind of composite self-portrait as interesting perhaps for its blind spots and distortions as for its details.
The idea, as best I can grasp it, seems to be that Destry-Scholes was working toward a kind of composite photograph of the three men, a ghostly overlay of their travels, theories, and lies, which also might blurrily be construed as the portrait of both biographers: "Was the composite portrait the face of DestryScholes?
A kind of composite cathode, La0.58Sr0.4Co0.2Fe0.8O3−δ Ce0.8Sm0.2O2−δ (LSCF SDC), was presented in this paper.
Fiber-reinforced materials (FRMs) are a kind of composites by embedding the fibers into the matrix materials.
To eliminate cracks caused by thermal expansion mismatch between ZrC coating and carbon carbon composites, a kind of ZrC/C composite coating was designed as an interlayer.
A kind of multifunctional composite with combined dielectric and mechanical properties was prepared using conductive nanofiller to modify continuous fiber-reinforced polymer composite.
From her earliest performances, Beecroft has tried to present a kind of surrogate composite self in public.
With the observed results, a kind of special composite laminate specimen with the circumcolumnar layup is designed and fabricated.
