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Compound may refer to:

  • Compound interest, unpaid interest that is added to the principle so that subsequent interest is calculated on the grossed-up amount.
  • Compound (fortification), an area of land that is surrounded by fences, walls, or barbed wire and is used for a particular purpose
  • Chemical compound, a combination of two or more elements.
  • Compound (linguistics), a word that consists of more than one radical element
  • Compound (music), an attribute of an interval or time signature
  • Compound (food), a chocolate substitute
  • Compound locomotive, a locomotive in which exhaust steam is re-used in a low pressure cylinder (or cylinders).
  • Compound sentence, a type of sentence made up of two or more independent clauses and no subordinate (dependent) clauses.
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