amerikai:
brit:
1. An enclosure within which workers, prisoners, or soldiers are confined
2. A group of buildings situated close together, e.g. for a school or block of offices
1. Anything made by combining several things.
2. A substance made from any combination elements.
3. A substance formed by chemical union of two or more ingredients in definite proportions by weight.
4. A lexeme that consists of more than one stem; compound word; for example laptop, formed from lap and top.
5. A compound locomotive, a steam locomotive with both high-pressure and low-pressure cylinders.
1. To form (a resulting mixture) by combining different elements, ingredients, or parts.
to compound a medicine
2. To assemble (ingredients) into a whole; to combine, mix, or unite.
3. To modify or change by combination with some other thing or part; to mingle with something else.
4. To settle by agreeing on less than the claim, or on different terms than those stipulated.
to compound a debt
5. To settle amicably; to adjust by agreement; to compromise.
6. To come to terms of agreement; to agree; to settle by a compromise; usually followed by with before the person participating, and for before the thing compounded or the consideration.
7. To compose; to constitute.
8. To increase in value with interest, where the interest is earned on both the principal sum and prior earned interest.
9. To worsen a situation.
10. Of a horse: to fail to maintain speed.
1. Composed of elements; not simple
a compound word
2. Dealing with numbers of various denominations of quantity, or with processes more complex than the simple process
compound addition; compound proportion
3. An octave higher than originally (i.e. a compound major second is equivalent to a major ninth).