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Compound
Compound
Compound may refer to: • Chemical compounds, combinations of two or more elements • Compound (enclosure), a cluster of buildings having a shared purpose, usually inside a fence or wall • Compound (fortification), a version of the above fortified with defensive structures • Compound (linguistics), a word that consists of more than one radical element • Compound (music), an attribute of an interval or time signature • Compounding, the mixing of drugs in pharmacy • Polyhedral compound, a polyhedron composed of multiple polyhedra sharing the same centre Compound may also refer to: • Compound chocolate, a chocolate substitute • Compound fracture, complete fractures of bone where at least one fragment has damaged the skin, soft tissue or surrounding body cavity • Compound interest, unpaid interest that is added to the principal so that subsequent interest is calculated on the grossed amount • Compound engine, a steam engine in which steam is expanded through a series ot two or three cylinders before exhaust. • Compound sentence (linguistics), a type of sentence made up of two or more independent clauses and no subordinate (dependent) clauses • Compound word, a word formed from two or more other words
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