- com·poundcompound (noun) · compounds (plural noun) · chemical compound (noun) · chemical compounds (plural noun)
- a thing that is composed of two or more separate elements; a mixture:"the air smelled like a compound of diesel and gasoline fumes"
- a substance formed from two or more elements chemically united in fixed proportions:"a compound of hydrogen and oxygen"
- a word made up of two or more existing words, such as steamship.
compound (adjective)- made up or consisting of two or more existing parts or elements:"a compound noun"
- (of interest) payable on both capital and the accumulated interest. Compare with simple."compound interest"
- biology(especially of a leaf, flower, or eye) consisting of two or more simple parts or individuals in combination.
compound (verb) · compounds (third person present) · compounded (past tense) · compounded (past participle) · compounding (present participle)- make up (a composite whole); constitute:"a dialect compounded of Spanish and Dutch"
- mix or combine (ingredients or constituents):"yellow pastas compounded with lemon zest or saffron"
- calculate (interest) on previously accumulated interest:"the yield at which the interest is compounded"
- make (something bad) worse; intensify the negative aspects of:"I compounded the problem by trying to make wrong things right"
- lawforbear from prosecuting (a felony) in exchange for money or other consideration.
- settle (a debt or other matter) in exchange for money or other consideration:"he compounded the case with the defendant for a cash payment"
Originlate Middle English compoune (verb), from Old French compoun-, present tense stem of compondre, from Latin componere ‘put together’. The final -d was added in the 16th century on the pattern of expound and propound. compound arose through a misinterpretation of the legal phrase compound a felony, which means ‘refrain from prosecuting a felony in exchange for money or other consideration’. This led to the use of compound in legal contexts to mean ‘make something bad worse’, which then became accepted in general usage.com·poundOriginlate 17th century (referring to such an area in SE Asia): from Portuguese campon or Dutch kampoeng, from Malay kampong ‘enclosure, hamlet’; compare with kampong.Similar and Opposite Wordsnoun- a thing that is composed of two or more separate elements; a mixture:
adjective- made up or consisting of two or more existing parts or elements:
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