2020 December 2, “Network News: News in brief: More cycle spaces”, inRail, page27:
A total of 75 cycle spaces are being installed at three Greater Anglia stations - [...]. And a securecompound for bicycles is being built at Cambridge North.
A group of buildingssituated 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 hiscompound. They have disappeared. We believe Kyle and his followers killed them. Transmission: Thatcompound is a cult, Shepard. They call him 'Father Kyle' now. He's set himself up as some kind of religious leader.
2019 March 7, Yuda Masayuki, “Thai court: pro-Thaksin party must disband for nominating princess”, inNikkei Asian Review[1], Nikkei Inc, retrieved7 March 2019:
Some 20 supporters managed to get inside the courtcompounds. 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."
(by extension,Philippines) A compound of buildings where members of the same extended family live together.
1725, Isaac Watts,Logick: Or, The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry after Truth,[…], 2nd edition, London:[…] John Clark and Richard Hett,[…], Emanuel Matthews,[…], and Richard Ford,[…], published1726,→OCLC:
Compound substances are made up of two or more simple substances.
(mathematics) Dealing with numbers of variousdenominations of quantity, or with processes more complex than the simple process.
compound addition
compound proportion
(music) Anoctave higher than originally (i.e. a compound major second is equivalent to a major ninth).
1961,Harry E. Wedeck,Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page228:
Acompound of spurge, cardamom, cinnamon of Mecca, pellitory, ginger, nettle seed is an Arab specific for sexual weakness.
(law) 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.
2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Position vectors, homologous chromosomes and gamma rays: Promoting disciplinary literacy through Secondary Phrase Lists”, inEnglish for Specific Purposes,→DOI, page 8:
Compositionally there is no great distinction betweencell wall andcell surface, both are relatively transparentcompounds, but both parts of the cell are of high significance in Biology due to their central role in cell functioning.
In the majority of the compounds ofnon- the hyphen is usually retained; but it is commonly omitted in the case of a few, such asnonconformist,nonentity,nonsense, in which the etymology has been to some extent lost sight of.
1961 March, ""Balmore"", “Driving and firing modern French steam locomotives”, inTrains Illustrated, page148:
From a dead stand, with regulator full open and the lever at about 50 per cent we got up to about 60 m.p.h. by the top of the bank. The bigcompound was making plenty of noise - but what musical and wonderful noise!
2020 April 12,Simon Tisdall, “US's global reputation hits rock-bottom over Trump's coronavirus response”, inThe Guardian[2]:
[…] This latest example of nationalistic self-interestcompounded anger across the EU over Trump’s travel ban, imposed last month without consultation or scientific justification.
At the hill, the Warrior must have been at least ten lengths in front of Wild Dayrell; but hecompounded about 200 yards on the T. Y. C. side of the Red House.
The usage in sense 7 above, “to worsen a situation” is widespread but not wholly accepted. The original meaning of the word (see senses 2–4) implies resolution of a problem, not worsening. It has been suggested (Fraser 1973) that the reverse usage arose by confusion with phrases such ascompound interest.
Compound in theEncyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)