compound

An enclosure within which workers, prisoners, or soldiers are confined.

An enclosure for secure storage.

A total of 75 cycle spaces are being installed at three Greater Anglia stations - [...]. And a secure compound for bicycles is being built at Cambridge North.

A group of buildings situated close together, e.g. for a school or block of offices.

Shepard: What kind of proof do you have that the major is dangerous? Transmission: Three days ago, we sent two Alliance representatives to meet with him at his compound. They have disappeared. We believe Kyle and his followers killed them. Transmission: That compound is a cult, Shepard. They call him 'Father Kyle' now. He's set himself up as some kind of religious leader.

Some 20 supporters managed to get inside the court compounds. About half an hour after the verdict was delivered, they gathered near the Constitutional Court entrance and shouted: "On March 24, use your pen to oust the dictator."

A group of buildings where members of the same extended family live together.

Composed of elements; not simple.

a compound word

Compound substances are made up of two or more simple substances.

Dealing with numbers of various denominations of quantity, or with processes more complex than the simple process.

compound addition

compound proportion

An octave higher than originally (i.e. a compound major second is equivalent to a major ninth).

Anything made by combining several things.

A substance formed by chemical bonding of two or more elements in definite proportions by weight.

A substance made from any combination of ingredients.

A compound of spurge, cardamom, cinnamon of Mecca, pellitory, ginger, nettle seed is an Arab specific for sexual weakness.

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.

A lexeme that consists of more than one stem.

Compositionally there is no great distinction between cell wall and cell surface, both are relatively transparent compounds, but both parts of the cell are of high significance in Biology due to their central role in cell functioning.