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an enclosure of residences and other building (especially in the Orient) of leaf shapes; of leaves composed of several similar parts or lobes bilobate, binate, bipinnate, cleft, conjugate, decompound, even-pinnate, incised, lobed, odd-pinnate, parted, palmate, pedate, pinnate, pinnatifid, pinnatisect, quinquefoliate, ternate, trifoliate, trilobate, bipartite, bipinnatifid, palmatifid, tripinnate, tripinnatifid calculate principal and interest create by mixing or combining combine so as to form a whole; mix; "compound the ingredients" put or add together; "combine resources" (chemistry) a substance formed by chemical union of two or more elements or ingredients in definite proportion by weight a whole formed by a union of two or more elements or parts consisting of two or more substances or ingredients or elements or parts; "soap is a compound substance"; "housetop is a compound word"; "a blackberry is a compound fruit" complex make more intense, stronger, or more marked; "The efforts were intensified", "Her rudeness intensified his dislike for her"; "Potsmokers claim it heightens their awareness"; "This event only deepened my convictions" composed of many distinct individuals united to form a whole or colony; "coral is a colonial organism" complex |
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