A compound is an area of land that is surrounded by fences, walls, or barbed wire and is used for a particular purpose, especially an area containing buildings and where the entry and exit of people is controlled.
In botany, compound is a quality of leaves. Leaves that are compound are in an array of small, symmetrically-arranged leaflets on each stem. In contrast, a plant with simple leaves has one leaf per stem.
In economics, compound (Compound Annual Growth Rate or CAGR) is the year over year growth rate of an investment over a given number of years.
In music, a compound is an attribute to an interval. An interval that is compound is an interval which exceeds or is wider than one octave. In contrast, a simple interval lies within one octave.
In steam locomotiveengineering, a compound locomotive has steam that is passed that has already passed through one cylinder is then passed through another; i.e. the cylinders are in "series" as opposed to the normal arrangement of a simple locomotive in which the cylinders are in parallel.
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A compound is an area of land that is surrounded by fences, walls, or barbed wire and is used for a particular purpose, especially an area containing buildings and where the entry and exit of people is controlled.
In geometry, a polyhedral compound is a polyhedron which is itself composed of several other polyhedra sharing a common centre, the three-dimensional analogs of polygonal compounds.
{Compoundengine} (Mech.), a form of steam engine in which the steam that has been used in a high-pressure cylinder is made to do further service in a larger low-pressure cylinder, sometimes in several larger cylinders, successively.
{Compound householder}, a householder who compounds or arranges with his landlord that his rates shall be included in his rents.
That which is compounded or formed by the union or mixture of elements ingredients, or parts; a combination of simples; a compound word; the result of composition.
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