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Meaning of Compounding | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

  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.

Equivalents

العربية التركيب نحت
Ελληνικά σύνθεση
日本語 調剤
한국어 조제

Examples

“the number of compoundings per year”
“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”
“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.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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