Compounding

Quick meaning: Compounding is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of compound.

Meaning

present participle and gerund of compound.

More Meanings

1. An accumulation of compound interest.
2. The act of mixing or combining substances to make a compound, such as a medicine
3. The use of steam more than once in a steam engine or turbine, in additional low-pressure cylinders etc.

Example Sentences

the number of compoundings per year

Superheating, first introduced with the "Abs", stopped further development in compounding, in New Zealand as elsewhere, and the "Abs" succeeded in dealing with the growing traffic unaided for more than a decade.

Arthur Pendennis, his son, was eight years old at the time of this event, so that it is no wonder that the latter, who left Bath and the surgery so young, should forget the existence of such a place almost entirely, and that his father’s hands had ever been dirtied by the compounding of odious pills, or the preparation of filthy plasters

Word Forms

• compoundings

Synonyms for compounding

Depending on context, synonyms include combination, combining.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include combination, combining, cumulative, composition, accumulation, composite.

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