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See also:COMPOUND (from See also:Lat. componere, to combine or put together)
, a See also:combination of various elements, substances or ingredients, so as to See also:form one composite whole
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A " chemical See also:compound " is a substance which can be resolved into See also:simple constituents, as opposed to an See also:element which cannot be so resolved (see See also:CHEMISTRY); a word is said to be a " compound " when it is made up of different words or parts of different words
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The See also:term is also used in an adjectival form with many applications; a " compound See also:engine " is one where the expansion of the See also:steam is effected in two or more stages (see STEAM-ENGINE); in See also:zoology, the " compound See also:eye " possessed by See also:insects and See also:crustacea is one which is made up of several ocelli or simple eyes, set together so that the whole has the See also:appearance of being faceted (see EYE); in See also:botany, the " compound See also:leaf has two or more See also:separate See also:blades on a See also:common leaf-stalk; in See also:surgery, in a " compound fracture " the skin is broken as well as the See also:bone, and there is a communication between the two
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There are many mathematical and arithmetical uses of the term, particularly of those forms of addition, multiplication, See also:division and subtraction which See also:deal with quantities of more than one See also:denomination
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Compound See also:interest is interest paid upon interest, the See also:accumulation of interest forming, as it were, a secondary See also:principal
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The verb " to compound " is used of the arrangement or See also:settlement of See also:differences, and especially of an agreement made to accept or to pay See also:part of a See also:debt in full See also:discharge of the whole, and thus of the arrangement made by an insolvent debtor with his creditors (see See also:BANKRUPTCY); similarly of the substitution of one See also:payment for See also:annual or other periodic payments,—thus subscriptions, university or other dues, &c., may be " compounded "; a particular instance of this is the See also:system of " compounding " for rates, where the occupier of premises pays an increased See also:rent, and the owner makes himself responsible for the payment of the rates
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The householder who thus compounds with the owner of the premises he occupies is known as a " compound householder." The payment of poor See also:rate forming part of the qualification necessary for the See also:parliamentary See also:franchise in the See also:United See also:Kingdom, various statutes, leading up to the Compound Householders See also:Act 1851, have enabled such occupiers to claim to be placed on the rate
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In See also:law, to compound a See also:felony is to agree with the felon not to prosecute him for his See also:crime, in return for valuable See also:consideration, or, in the See also:case of a See also:theft, on return of the goods stolen
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Such an agreement is a See also:misdemeanour and is punishable with See also:fine and imprisonment
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The name " compounders " was given during the reign of See also: In See also:India the See also:European quarter, as a See also:rule, is separate from the native quarter, and consists of a number of single houses, each See also:standing in a compound, sometimes many acres in extent . |
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