Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word COMPOUND
COMPOUND
Definitions of COMPOUND
- An enclosure for secure storage.
- Anything made by combining several things.
- An enclosure within which workers, prisoners, or soldiers are confined.
- A group of buildings situated close together, e.g. for a school or block of offices.
- Composed of elements; not simple.
- (math) Dealing with numbers of various denominations of quantity, or with processes more complex than the simple process.
- (music) An octave higher than originally (i.e. a compound major second is equivalent to a major ninth).
- (chemistry) A substance formed by chemical bonding of two or more elements in definite proportions by weight.
- (chemistry, dated) A substance made from any combination of ingredients.
- (linguistics) A lexeme that consists of more than one stem.
- (law) A legal procedure whereby a criminal or delinquent avoids prosecution in a court in exchange for his payment to the authorities of a financial penalty or fine.
- (linguistics) A lexeme that consists of more than one stem or an affix, e.g. bookshop, high school or non-standard.
- (rail) A compound locomotive, a steam locomotive with both high-pressure and low-pressure cylinders.
- Short for compound exercise.
- (transitive) To form (a resulting mixture) by combining different elements, ingredients, or parts; to mingle with something else.
- (transitive, legal) To settle by agreeing on less than the claim, or on different terms than those stipulated.
- (transitive) To settle amicably; to adjust by agreement.
- (intransitive) To come to terms of agreement; to settle by a compromise.
- (transitive, obsolete) To compose; to constitute.
- (intransitive, finance) To increase in value with interest, where the interest is earned on both the principal sum and prior earned interest.
- (transitive, see usage notes) To worsen a situation.
- (horse racing, intransitive) Of a horse: to fail to maintain speed.
Number of letters
8
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using COMPOUND in a Sentence
- In organic chemistry, an amide, also known as an organic amide or a carboxamide, is a compound with the general formula , where R, R', and R″ represent any group, typically organyl groups or hydrogen atoms.
- Boron nitride is a thermally and chemically resistant refractory compound of boron and nitrogen with the chemical formula BN.
- The name is an Old Norse compound brísinga-men whose second element is men "(ornamental) neck-ring (of precious metal), torc".
- The word "carbonate" may also refer to a carbonate ester, an organic compound containing the carbonate group.
- Compound (enclosure), a cluster of buildings having a shared purpose, usually inside a fence or wall.
- Chemical affinity can also refer to the tendency of an atom or compound to combine by chemical reaction with atoms or compounds of unlike composition.
- A cross is a compound geometrical figure consisting of two intersecting lines, usually perpendicular to each other.
- A coordination complex is a chemical compound consisting of a central atom or ion, which is usually metallic and is called the coordination centre, and a surrounding array of bound molecules or ions, that are in turn known as ligands or complexing agents.
- A compound turbine is a steam turbine in which there are two casings, a high-pressure casing and a low-pressure casing, operating in concert to extract work from a single source of steam.
- That an associated locant number represents the location of a covalent bond in an organic compound, the position of which is variant between isomeric forms.
- Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, commonly known as DDT, is a colorless, tasteless, and almost odorless crystalline chemical compound, The WHO's anti-malaria campaign of the 1950s and 1960s relied heavily on DDT and the results were promising, though there was a resurgence in developing countries afterwards.
- Ethylene is widely used in the chemical industry, and its worldwide production (over 150 million tonnes in 2016) exceeds that of any other organic compound.
- Ethanol (also called ethyl alcohol, grain alcohol, drinking alcohol, or simply alcohol) is an organic compound with the chemical formula.
- In chemistry, the empirical formula of a chemical compound is the simplest whole number ratio of atoms present in a compound.
- His synthesis of the organic compound urea in the laboratory from inorganic substances contradicted the belief that organic compounds could only be produced by living organisms due to a "life force".
- In organic chemistry, a hydrocarbon is an organic compound consisting entirely of hydrogen and carbon.
- A heterocyclic compound or ring structure is a cyclic compound that has atoms of at least two different elements as members of its ring(s).
- In organic chemistry, a ketene is an organic compound of the form , where R and R' are two arbitrary monovalent chemical groups (or two separate substitution sites in the same molecule).
- The name is a compound of Paul Kruger, the former President of the South African Republic (depicted on the obverse), and rand, the South African unit of currency.
- chemical compound always contains its component elements in a fixed ratio (by mass) and does not depend on its source or method of preparation.
- Compound propositions are formed by connecting propositions by logical connectives representing the truth functions of conjunction, disjunction, implication, biconditional, and negation.
- A simple lens consists of a single piece of transparent material, while a compound lens consists of several simple lenses (elements), usually arranged along a common axis.
- A metal may be a chemical element such as iron; an alloy such as stainless steel; or a molecular compound such as polymeric sulfur nitride.
- Different molecules of the same compound may have different molecular masses because they contain different isotopes of an element.
- Instruments used to measure and display pressure mechanically are called pressure gauges, vacuum gauges or compound gauges (vacuum & pressure).
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