compound

Forms

1.An enclosure within which workers, prisoners, or soldiers are confined.
2.An enclosure for secure storage.
- A total of 75 cycle spaces are being installed at three Greater Anglia stations - [..]. And a secure compound for bicycles is being built at Cambridge North.
- A separate building on the west side will house a standby powerhouse and a workshop, and there will be an unroofed compound for compressed air cylinders and water tanks.
3.A group of buildings situated close together, e.g. for a school or block of offices.
4.A group of buildings where members of the same extended family live together.

1.Composed of elements; not simple.
- Compound substances are made up of two or more simple substances.
2.Dealing with numbers of various denominations of quantity, or with processes more complex than the simple process.
3.An octave higher than originally (i.e. a compound major second is equivalent to a major ninth).

1.To form (a resulting mixture) by combining different elements, ingredients, or parts; to mingle with something else.
- Only compound me with forgotten dust.
- In eighteenth century France, many aphrodisiac dishes and pastries were compounded with chocolate.
- We have the power of altering[…] and compounding those images[…] into all the varieties of picture.

Uncommon· #3926

Possibly from Malay kampong, kampung (“group of buildings, village”), via Dutch or Portuguese, altered under the influence of Etymology 2.

Doublet of kampung.