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compounding

/adjective kom-pound, kom-pound; noun kom-pound; verb kuhm-pound, kom-pound/US // adjective ˈkɒm paʊnd, kɒmˈpaʊnd; noun ˈkɒm paʊnd; verb kəmˈpaʊnd, ˈkɒm paʊnd //UK // (ˈkɒmpaʊnd) //

复方制剂,复式,复合,复方

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
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    • : composed of two or more parts, elements, or ingredients: Soap is a compound substance.
    • : having or involving two or more actions or functions: The mouth is a compound organ.
    • : Grammar. of or relating to a compound sentence or compound-complex sentence.
    • : consisting of two or more parts that are also bases, forming a compound noun,compound adjective,compound verb, or compound preposition, as housetop, many-sided, playact, or upon.consisting of any two or more parts that have identifiable meaning, as a base and a noninflectional affix, a base and a combining form, two combining forms, or a combining form and a noninflectional affix.
    • : consisting of an auxiliary verb and a main verb, as are swimming, have spoken, or will write.
    • : Botany. composed of several similar parts that combine to form a whole: a compound fruit.
    • : Zoology. composed of a number of distinct individuals that are connected to form a united whole or colony, as coral.
    • : Music. of or relating to compound time.
    • : Machinery. noting an engine or turbine expanding the same steam or the like in two successive chambers to do work at two ranges of pressure.
n.名词 noun
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    • : something formed by compounding or combining parts, elements, etc.
    • : Chemistry. a pure substance composed of two or more elements whose composition is constant.
    • : a compound word, especially one composed of two or more words that are otherwise unaltered, as moonflower or rainstorm.
v.有主动词 verb
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    • : to put together into a whole; combine:to compound drugs to form a new medicine.
    • : to make or form by combining parts, elements, etc.; construct: to compound a new plan from parts of several former plans.
    • : to make up or constitute: all the organs and members that compound a human body.
    • : to settle or adjust by agreement, especially for a reduced amount, as a debt.
    • : Law. to agree, for a consideration, not to prosecute or punish a wrongdoer for: to compound a crime or felony.
    • : to pay on the accrued interest as well as the principal: My bank compounds interest quarterly.
    • : to increase or add to: The misery of his loneliness was now compounded by his poverty.
    • : Electricity. to connect a portion of the field turns of in series with the armature circuit.
v.无主动词 verb
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    • : to make a bargain; come to terms; compromise.
    • : to settle a debt, claim, etc., by compromise.
    • : to form a compound.

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Examples

  • That means it will need to get pentobarbital from a compounding pharmacy, another source of concern, experts say.

  • Compounding this issue is that there are few positive images of Muslims or Muslim Americans in American entertainment media.

  • Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.

  • Compounding the conundrum further is the fact that many cellphones allow direct access to information in remote cloud storage.

  • Compounding this is the fact that Bab al-Salameh, while significantly safer than most other areas, is still in a war zone.

  • The doctor was alone in it, and stood compounding pills behind the counter.

  • So that, like acetanilid, the old argument of the nostrum men that the preparation needs skill in compounding will not hold.

  • In this way all danger of causing the broken bones to protrude and thus "compounding" the fracture is also avoided.

  • These languages have always found it easier to create new words by compounding afresh elements ready to hand.

  • The prescription for compounding that mixture could obviously be learned by nothing but experiment.