1. Make more intense, stronger, or more marked
   - intensify, heighten, deepen 
2. Put or add together
   - combine 
3. Calculate principal and interest 
4. Create by mixing or combining 
5. Combine so as to form a whole; mix
   "compound the ingredients"
   - combine

1. A whole formed by a union of two or more elements or parts 
2. (chemistry) a substance formed by chemical union of two or more elements or ingredients in definite proportion by weight
   - chemical compound 
3. An enclosure of residences and other building (especially in the Orient)

1. Composed of more than one part
   "compound leaves are composed of several lobes"; "compound flower heads" 
2. Consisting of two or more substances or ingredients or elements or parts
   "soap is a compound substance"; "housetop is a compound word"; "a blackberry is a compound fruit" 
3. Composed of many distinct individuals united to form a whole or colony
   - colonial

Derived forms: compounds, compounding, compounded

See also: abruptly-pinnate, bilobate, bilobated, bilobed, binate, bipartite, bipinnate, bipinnatifid, cleft, complex, compounding, conjugate, decompound, dissected, even-pinnate, imparipinnate, incised, lobate, lobed, odd-pinnate, palmate, palmatifid, palm-shaped, paripinnate, parted, pedate, pinnate, pinnated, pinnatifid, pinnatisect, quinquefoliate, radiate, rough, smooth, ternate, three-lobed, trifoliate, trifoliated, trifoliolate, trilobate, trilobated, trilobed, tripinnate, tripinnated, tripinnatifid

Type of: account, add, amalgamate, assemble, calculate, chemical, chemical substance, commix, enclosure, increase, mingle, mix, piece, put together, set up, tack, tack together, unify, whole

Antonym: simple

Encyclopedia: Compound

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