Word Finder - compounding

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To form (a resulting mixture) by combining different elements, ingredients, or parts.

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to compound a medicine

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To assemble (ingredients) into a whole; to combine, mix, or unite.

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To modify or change by combination with some other thing or part; to mingle with something else.

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To settle by agreeing on less than the claim, or on different terms than those stipulated.

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to compound a debt

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To settle amicably; to adjust by agreement; to compromise.

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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.

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To compose; to constitute.

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To increase in value with interest, where the interest is earned on both the principal sum and prior earned interest.

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To worsen a situation.

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Of a horse: to fail to maintain speed.

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An accumulation of compound interest.

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the number of compoundings per year

It is also pretty certain that the anti-Swedish alliance was Russia's price for compounding the Gottorp difficulty.

Burke uses, in reference to Hyder Ali, the same image which Demosthenes uses in reference to Philip. "Compounding all the materials of fury, havoc, desolation, into one black cloud, he hung for a while on the declivity of the mountains.

We live at a defining moment for humanity, as the compounding effects of technology and civilization reach an inflection point.

It can be difficult enough to find trendy plus size clothes you like without compounding the problem with fit.

This drawback can be corrected to a slight extent by furnishing the hydraulic crane with more than one cylinder, and thus compounding it, but the arrangement does not give the same economical range of load "as in an electric crane.

In the modern signification it is applied to the act of preparing, preserving and compounding medicines, according to the prescriptions of physicians.

Although by compounding corresponding portions of the diagrams given by instruments of this type, it is possible to determine the range and direction of the movement of which they are the resolved parts, their chief value is that they enable us to measure with ease the extent of any vibration, half of which is called its amplitude, and the time taken to make any complete back-and-forth movement, or its period.

We will briefly notice the case of two degrees, which involves an interesting generalization of the method (already explained) of compounding rotations about intersecting axes.

The art of compounding this mixture, which is also referred to as zrup Oaxa6vcov, or sea fire, was jealously guarded at Constantinople, and the possession of the secret on several occasions proved of great advantage to the city.

Taking first the sagas relating to Icelanders, of which some thirty-five or forty remain out of thrice that number, they were first written down between 1140 and 1220, in the generation which succeeded Ari and felt the g impulse his books had given to writing, on separate scrolls, no doubt mainly for the reciter's convenience; they then went through the different phases which such popular compositions have to pass in all lands - editing and compounding (1220-1260), padding and amplifying (1260-1300), and finally collection in large MSS.

The principal occurrences have been the final compounding of the old state debt at fifty cents on the dollar in 1882, the rapid growth of cities, and the increased importance' of mining and manufacturing.

The vicious cycle of compounding one's depression by having to deal with hair loss makes these drugs a thing worth trying to avoid.

This interest was not merely theoretical - he found the actual preparing and compounding of ointments and plasters very absorbing.

Hence, in accordance with the rule for compounding vector quantities, the resultant vibration at B, due to any finite part of the primary wave, is represented in amplitude and phase by the chord joining the extremities of the corresponding arc (U2-0.1).

By compounding two lenses or lens systems separated by a definite interval, a system is obtained having a focal length considerably less than the focal lengths of the separate systems. If f and f' be the focal lengths of the combination, and f2, f2 the focal lengths of the two components, and A the distance between the inner foci of the components, then f = - f,f2/4, f' =fi f27 0 (see Lens).

Tone sandhi in Shanghai is a morpho-phonological process to produce prosodic words, while compounding is a syntactic means to make lexical words.

An important aspect of spatial compounding is its ability to reduce speckle noise to improve image quality.

The effects of spatial compounding can also be seen in the 3-D visualizations below.

Holding on to your startup company for a long time also confers the benefit of compounding.

In my view, long term tax-deferred compounding is where real wealth is created.

The longer one holds debt, the more expensive that debt becomes due to compounding interest.

Using the Internet to victimize others provides the instigator with anonymity, compounding the problem.

With compounding high interest, debt continues to grow.

Second, there is a strong tendency to eat snacks while watching television, compounding the problem.

The interest rate in mortgage payments is a compounding interest.

Many holistic MDs will also prescribe vitamins that can be procured from specific compounding pharmacies.

Compounding the problems, the late actor Robert Shaw was on a very tight schedule due to US income tax reasons and threatened to walk off the set several times.

Thanks to the power of compounding interest, people who begin saving for retirement at a relatively young age need to put away much less money overall.

Running a web search can also help you find specific hints and tricks for compounding a quality workout routine, but without a video to aid your understanding you may miss out on posture pointers and proper examples.

She was quick to see her mistake and had no intention of compounding it at the end of a shotgun.

It is plain that such a method as the latter implies great command of colored pastes, and, indeed, no feature of the manufacture is more conspicuous than the progress made during the period1880-1900in compounding and firing vitrifiable enamels.