Compound

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Compound may refer to:

• Compound interest, unpaid interest that is added to the principal so that subsequent interest is calculated on the grossed-up amount.
• Compound (enclosure), a cluster of buildings having a shared purpose, usually inside a fence or wall
• Compound (fortification), a 'compound (enclosure)' which is fortified with defensive structures
• Compound (chemistry), a combination of two or more elements
• Compound fracture, complete fractures of bone where at least one fragment has damaged the skin, soft tissue or surrounding body cavity
• Compound (linguistics), a word that consists of more than one radical element
• Compound (music), an attribute of an interval or time signature
• Compound chocolate, 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
• Compounding, the origin of pharmacy which is still continued today