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adjective
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composed of two or more parts, elements, or ingredients: Soap is a compound substance.
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having or involving two or more actions or functions: The mouth is a compound organ.
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Grammar. of or pertaining to a compound sentence or compound-complex sentence.
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(of a word)
a.
consisting of two or more parts that are also bases, as housetop, many-sided, playact, or upon.
b.
consisting of any two or more parts that have identifiable meaning, as a base and a noninflectional affix (return, follower), a base and a combining form (biochemistry), two combining forms (ethnography), or a combining form and a noninflectional affix (aviary, dentoid).
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Botany. composed of several similar parts that combine to form a whole: a compound fruit.
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Zoology. composed of a number of distinct individuals that are connected to form a united whole or colony, as coral.
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Music. of or pertaining to compound time.
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COLLAPSEMachinery. noting an engine or turbine expanding the same steam or the like in two successive chambers to do work at two ranges of pressure.
noun
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something formed by compounding or combining parts, elements, etc.
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Chemistry. a pure substance composed of two or more elements whose composition is constant.
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a compound word, especially one composed of two or more words that are otherwise unaltered, as moonflower or rainstorm.
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Uncompounded
is always a great word to know.
So is slumgullion. Does it mean:
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
verb (used with object)
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to put together into a whole; combine: to compound drugs to form a new medicine.
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to make or form by combining parts, elements, etc.; construct: to compound a new plan from parts of several former plans.
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to make up or constitute: all the organs and members that compound a human body.
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to settle or adjust by agreement, especially for a reduced amount, as a debt.
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EXPANDLaw. to agree, for a consideration, not to prosecute or punish a wrongdoer for: to compound a crime or felony.
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to pay (interest) on the accrued interest as well as the principal: My bank compounds interest quarterly.
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to increase or add to: The misery of his loneliness was now compounded by his poverty.
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COLLAPSEElectricity. to connect a portion of the field turns of (a direct-current dynamo) in series with the armature circuit.
verb (used without object)
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to make a bargain; come to terms; compromise.
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to settle a debt, claim, etc., by compromise.
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to form a compound.
Origin:
1350–1400; (v.) Middle English compounen < Middle French compon- (stem of compondre) < Latin compōnere, equivalent to com- com- + pōnere to put; (adj.) Middle English compouned, past participle of compounen, as above
1350–1400; (v.) Middle English compounen < Middle French compon- (stem of compondre) < Latin compōnere, equivalent to com- com- + pōnere to put; (adj.) Middle English compouned, past participle of compounen, as above
Related forms
com·pound·a·ble, adjective
com·pound·ed·ness, noun
com·pound·er, noun
non·com·pound·a·ble, adjective
un·com·pound·a·ble, adjective
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| not constituting a compound |
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