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 (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 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.