<p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>composed of two or more parts, elements, or ingredients: Soap is a compound substance.</li><li>having or involving two or more actions or functions: The mouth is a compound organ.</li><li>of or relating to a compound sentence or compound-complex sentence.</li><li>(of a word) consisting of two or more parts that are also bases, forming a compound noun, compound adjective, compound verb, or compound preposition, as housetop, many-sided, playact, or upon.</li><li>consisting of any two or more parts that have identifiable meaning, as a base and a noninflectional affix (return, follower), a base and a combining form (biochemistry), two combining forms (ethnography), or a combining form and a noninflectional affix (aviary, dentoid).</li><li>(of a verb tense) consisting of an auxiliary verb and a main verb, as are swimming, have spoken, or will write (simple).</li><li>Botany: composed of several similar parts that combine to form a whole: a compound fruit.</li><li>Zoology: composed of a number of distinct individuals that are connected to form a united whole or colony, as coral.</li><li>Music: of or relating to compound time.</li><li>Machinery: noting an engine or turbine expanding the same steam or the like in two successive chambers to do work at two ranges of pressure.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>something formed by compounding or combining parts, elements, etc.</li><li>Chemistry: a pure substance composed of two or more elements whose composition is constant.</li><li>a compound word, especially one composed of two or more words that are otherwise unaltered, as moonflower or rainstorm.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object) to put together into a whole; combine: to compound drugs to form a new medicine.</li><li>to make or form by combining parts, elements, etc.; construct: to compound a new plan from parts of several former plans.</li><li>to make up or constitute: all the organs and members that compound a human body.</li><li>to settle or adjust by agreement, especially for a reduced amount, as a debt.</li><li>Law: to agree, for a consideration, not to prosecute or punish a wrongdoer for: to compound a crime or felony.</li><li>to pay (interest) on the accrued interest as well as the principal: My bank compounds interest quarterly.</li><li>to increase or add to: The misery of his loneliness was now compounded by his poverty.</li><li>Electricity: to connect a portion of the field turns of (a direct-current dynamo) in series with the armature circuit.</li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>