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	Compound - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A compound is an area of land that is surrounded by fences, walls, or barbed wire and is used for a particular purpose, especially an area containing buildings and where the entry and exit of people is controlled.
		An interval that is compound is an interval which exceeds or is wider than one octave, whereas a simple interval lies within one octave.
		In geometry, a polyhedral compound is a polyhedron which is itself composed of several other polyhedra sharing a common centre, the three-dimensional analogs of polygonal compounds.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Compound (415 words)

	COMPOUND - Definition
		{Compound engine} (Mech.), a form of steam engine in which the steam that has been used in a high-pressure cylinder is made to do further service in a larger low-pressure cylinder, sometimes in several larger cylinders, successively.
		{Compound householder}, a householder who compounds or arranges with his landlord that his rates shall be included in his rents.
		That which is compounded or formed by the union or mixture of elements ingredients, or parts; a combination of simples; a compound word; the result of composition.
	www.hyperdictionary.com /dictionary/compound (878 words)

	Compound Words (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		A compound noun or adjective consisting of a short verb plus a word that normally functions as a preposition or an adverb is usually solid, unless a hyphen is needed for readability.
		A compound adjective that follows the noun is ordinarily not hyphenated unless it is shown with a hyphen in the dictionary.
		A compound adjective that is a foreign language phrase is not hyphenated unless it is hyphenated in the original language.
	www.epri.com /corporate/discover_epri/epri_facts/reportspecs/style3.html (627 words)

	compound. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Compounds can be decomposed by chemical means into elements or simpler compounds.
		A compound differs from a mixture in that the components of a mixture retain their own properties and may be present in many different proportions.
		Sodium chloride is an ionic compound; it is made up of electrically charged ions that are present in fixed proportions and are arranged in a regular, geometric pattern (called crystalline structure) but are not grouped into molecules.
	www.bartleby.com /65/co/compnd-che.html (581 words)

	COMPOUND STATEMENT
		The compound statement is used in a routine or trigger to create an environment within which variables, cursors, exception condition names and exception handlers can be declared.
		The procedural SQL statements in a compound statement are executed in sequence whenever the compound statement is executed.
		When a compound statement is defined as atomic, an "atomic execution context" becomes active while it, or any sub-query contained in a statement within it, is executing.
	developer.mimer.com /documentation/Mimer_SQL_Reference_Manual/SQL_Statements27.html (326 words)

	Compound Words
		Compound words are words which are made of two or more words.
		Therefore, in case of a compound word that has two or more nouns where the last word is a noun, the compound noun has the gender of the last noun.
		The compound word, soβaρoπaρλenáρe, which is a verb, means to talk seriously, not to talk nonsense.
	www.geocities.com /alexandrosworld/Mesogeoika/CompoundWords.htm (531 words)

	How to Select a Compound Bow that's right for YOU! HUNTERSFRIEND.COM
		The compound bow is constructed from readily available materials, it has only a handful of moving parts, and it isn't micro-processor controlled either.
		Compound bows come in a variety of maximum draw weights, but the most common are the 60# and 70# versions.
		Compound bows are designed to eliminate this problem, offering the shooter more time to aim and release the arrow.
	www.huntersfriend.com /bowselection.htm (8787 words)

	Compound Polyhedra
		By duality, because the compound of five cubes has the same face planes as the rhombic triacontahedron, the compound of five octahedra has the same 30 vertices as the icosidodecahedron.
		A second method of deriving this compound is to start with a model of one octahedron inscribed in a dodecahedron and realize that there are five different ways of placing it there.
		Observe that eight of the compound's vertices are the vertices of the original cube, while the remaining 24 vertices of the compound lie in the face planes of a larger cube.
	www.georgehart.com /virtual-polyhedra/compounds-info.html (1372 words)

	Tix Built-In Commands - compound manual page
		Compound image types can be used to create images that consists of multiple horizontal lines; each line is composed of a series of items (texts, bitmaps, images or spaces) arranged from left to right.
		Compound images are mainly used to embed complex drawings into widgets that support the -image option.
		By default the background is not drawn and the compound image appears to have a transparent background.
	tix.sourceforge.net /dist/current/man/html/TixCmd/compound.htm (1190 words)

	Compound Word Fun
		The definition of a compound word is "a compound word is a word made up of two smaller words." After you write the definition on the board, you will ask for volunteers to suggest compound words they know.
		After discussing how compound words are made, you will instruct the students to sit on the floor as a whole group for storytime.
		After reading Petunia to the class, ask the students to remind the class what a compound word is. Reread Petunia to the class instructing the students to raise their hands when you read a compound word.
	www.glc.k12.ga.us /BuilderV03/lptools/lpshared/lpdisplay.asp?Session_Stamp=&LPID=15574 (518 words)

	Dorlands Medical Dictionary
		clathrate compound, a type of inclusion complex in which molecules of one type are trapped within cavities of another substance, such as within a crystalline lattice structure or large molecule; called also occlusion c and clathrate.
		high energy compounds, compounds containing high energy bonds (q.v.); because they yield high levels of free energy on hydrolysis, the compounds are basic to the energy supply of living organisms.
		unsaturated compound, a compound in which the combining capacities of all the elements are not satisfied; see unsaturated.
	www.mercksource.com /pp/us/cns/cns_hl_dorlands.jspzQzpgzEzzSzppdocszSzuszSzcommonzSzdorlandszSzdorlandzSzdmd_c_50zPzhtm (2758 words)

	Compound Interest
		Compound interest, put simply, is interest paid on interest.
		The amount of compound interest for the first interest period is the same as for simple interest.
		However, under compound interest payments, the yearly interest is added to the principle for the next period.
	homepages.cambrianc.on.ca /tutorial/thetutorialcentre/mathscience/math/compound_interest.htm (962 words)

	Compound Paths (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		The two objects in example A are compound paths, The window is created where the two objects overlap.
		The most common type of compound path is text that has been converted into outlines.
		Compound paths take on the color of the backmost object.
	www.ccsn.nevada.edu /cg/diamond/de/illus/compound (198 words)

	Chem4Kids.com: Atoms: Compounds
		Compounds are groups of two or more elements that are bonded together.
		Covalent compounds happen when the atoms share the electrons, and ionic compounds happen when electrons are donated from one atom to another.
		The new compound is not as reactive as the original elements.
	www.chem4kids.com /files/atom_compounds.html (370 words)

	Compound flowmeters
		Compound Flowmeter -A combination of 2 water meters - a large one and a small one, with a special change-over valve.
		This compound water meter can handle and measure accurately an extremely broad range of flow rates.
		The 50mm Compound Water Meter is designed for applications requiring accurate measurements in environments with large fluctuations in flow rates, such as factories, hotels, hospitals, apartment buildings, etc.
	www.flowmeterdirectory.com /flowmeter_compound.html (242 words)

	compound - a Whatis.com definition
		1) In chemistry, a compound is a substance that results from a combination of two or more different chemical elements, in such a way that the atoms of the different elements are held together by chemical bonds that are difficult to break.
		Sometimes, when an element is exposed to a compound, a reaction occurs in which new compounds are formed (as when pure elemental sodium is immersed in liquid water).
		Examples of this usage include compound eye (found in various insects), compound microscope (a high-power magnifying instrument consisting of more than one lens), compound sentence (a sentence that is a conjunction or disjunction of smaller sentences), and compound document, an organized collection of user interfaces that form a single integrated perceptual environment.
	whatis.techtarget.com /definition/0,,sid9_gci859528,00.html (413 words)

	The Compound Light Microscope
		The microscope pictured above is referred to as a compound light microscope.
		The creation of the compound microscope by the Janssens helped to advance the field of microbiology light years ahead of where it had been only just a few years earlier.
		Modern compound light microscopes, under optimal conditions, can magnify an object from 1000X to 2000X (times) the specimens original diameter.
	www.southwestschools.org /jsfaculty/Microscopes/compoundscope.html (178 words)

	Language Log: Is "compound" code for "cult"?
		Steyn is claiming that home / compound is one of those bandit / terrorist / militant / freedom fighter kind of things, where the choice of terminology tells you something about the attitudes of the writer and the publication as well as about the nature of the person or thing being described.
		The spelling "compound" for the residential sense is apparently a sort of folk etymology, an eggcorn that made it.
		Mark Steyn may feel, on reflection, that an academic compound is indeed a cult building, but I don't think that's what he meant when he wrote that "the Times seems to use the term [compound] as universally accepted shorthand for 'wacky cult'".
	itre.cis.upenn.edu /~myl/languagelog/archives/002130.html (1294 words)

	compound on Encyclopedia.com
		Compound quality in the mixing room: This paper from Krupp shows how raw material variations can affect final mix quality and throws more light on the differences between intermeshing mixers and tangential types,...
		The devastated Al-Hamra expatriate housing compound in Riyadh, Tuesday May 13, 2003, after it was hit by a suicide car bombing blamed on the Al-Qaeda terror network, where at least 29 people were kill
		Total organic compounds released from dehumidification drying of air-dried hardwood lumber.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/c1/compnd-che.asp (538 words)

	Compound Names
		A compound name is a name in a single naming system.
		accepts a string representation of the compound name and a set of properties that describe the naming syntax of the name.
		Following is example code that replaces the second component of a compound name and adds components to the head and tail of the name.
	mama.indstate.edu /users/ashok/docs/jndi/beyond/names/compound.html (824 words)

	Chapter Comportable <i>to</i> Compound of C by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)
		to accept of a consideration for forbearing to prosecute, such compounding being an indictable offense.
		To effect a composition; to come to terms of agreement; to agree; to settle by a compromise; — usually followed by with before the person participating, and for before the thing compounded or the consideration.
		a householder who compounds or arranges with his landlord that his rates shall be included in his rents.
	www.bibliomania.com /2/3/257/1194/22241/5.html (372 words)

	Lesson Exchange: Compound Words-Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (Elementary, Literature)
		It will be explained that compound words are actually two words that are put together to make a new word.
		Students will be called on individually to come forward and create a compound word by combining a word chosen from the left with a word from the right.
		Students will match words to create compound words by drawing a line from the word on the left to the word on the right.
	www.teachers.net /lessons/posts/2125.html (403 words)

	Compound Widgets
		Compound widgets usually have a base widget at the root of their hierarchies.
		In order to preserve the illusion that the compound widget works just like any of the widget primitives, the user value of the compound widget's top-level base should be reserved for use by the caller of the compound widget.
		By swallowing events from the widgets that comprise the compound widget and generating events that represent the compound widget, it presents the illusion that the compound widget is acting like a widget primitive.
	www.astro.princeton.edu /~esirko/idl_html_help/widget_apps13.html (812 words)

	Compound Equations
		Explain that a compound word is a larger word that is made up of two smaller words.
		Allow them to work with a partner to find as many compound words as they can that are found in the book.
		Have students look at the compound words on their list and choose one of the words to illustrate.
	www.glc.k12.ga.us /BuilderV03/lptools/lpshared/lpdisplay.asp?Session_Stamp=&LPID=17215 (476 words)

	The Regulation of Compound Leaf Development -- Bharathan and Sinha 127 (4): 1533 -- PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
		Compound leaves consist of a petiole and several leaflets, each of which may or may not have a short petiolule.
		In the palmately compound leaf in the monocot Arisaema spp., a
		Parnis A, Cohen O, Gutfinger T, Hareven D, Zamir D, Lifschitz E (1997) The dominant developmental mutants of tomato, Mouse-ear and Curl, are associated with distinct modes of abnormal transcriptional regulation of a Knotted gene.
	www.plantphysiol.org /cgi/content/full/127/4/1533 (3300 words)

	Compound Sentences
		A compound sentence is like a set of twins; each is a separate person, yet each is connected to the other with the same biological "make-up." That is, each has a subject, a verb, and words to complete the thought.
		The two parts of the compound sentence need to be linked correctly, with a comma and then a linking word at the place where one sentence ends and the other begins.
		Because there are two complete sentences in a compound sentence, each has equal weight in terms of the ideas being presented.
	www.esc.edu /esconline/across_esc/writerscomplex.nsf/3cc42a422514347a8525671d0049f395/e42f0742452027ba852569f5005c1c0d?OpenDocument (259 words)

	comPOUND overview
		Designed as a modular and extendable storage system to fit in any standard lab, TTP LabTech's comPOUND sample management system offers an affordable and scaleable method of cherry-picking single tubes from any location within a sample library with unparalleled speed and accuracy.
		The compact and self-contained comPOUND storage modules do not require a special building and are easily relocatable.
		The comPOUND sample management system offers a laboratory scale solution for the storage and retrieval of chemical compounds, DNA, oligonucleotides and a range of other samples.
	www.ttplabtech.com /compound (160 words)

	compound
		of or pertaining to a compound sentence or compound-complex sentence.
		to compound a new plan from parts of several former plans.
		The misery of his loneliness was now compounded by his poverty.
	www.infoplease.com /dictionary/compound (358 words)

	Musings..... Kite Plans of the Cody Compound
		The proportions for this Compound Cody are in the 1983 reprint of "The Penguin Book of Kites".
		I have made several of the more commonly recognized Cody Bat Wing kites and this Compound Cody flies in much lighter winds and certainly doesn't have the lift (pull) of the Bat Wing version.
		The four point compound bridle is handy when having to pump the kite to steadier winds aloft, but when there, the kite settles into position with the back two lines sagging as shown in the above figure in the upper right corner.
	home.sprynet.com /~jmaxworthy/codyplan.htm (580 words)

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