COMPOUND Motion, that motion which is effected by several conspiring powers. Powers are said to
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Compurgator. Conspire if the direction of the one be not quite opposite to that of the other; as when the radius of a circle is conceived to revolve about a centre, and at the same time a point to move straight along it.
Compound Numbers, those which may be divided by some other number besides unity, without leaving any remainder; such are 18, 20, &c. the first being measured by the numbers 2, 6, or 9; and the second by the numbers 2, 4, 5, 10.
Compound Quantities. See ALGEBRA, no 4.
Compound Ratio, is that which the product of the antecedents of two or more ratios has to the product of their consequents. Thus, 6 to 72 is in a ratio compounded of 2 to 6, and of 3 to 12.
Compound, (substantive), the result or effect of a composition of different things; or a mass formed by the union of many ingredients.