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noun

compounding

the act of combining things to form a new whole

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Six example sentences with compounding, each labelled with its topic.

  • The pharmacy handles compounding on site, mixing two liquids into a single syrup a child will actually swallow.

    Medicine

  • Her method is a compounding of pigment, wax, and marble dust into a paste that dries like stone.

    Art

  • The compounding of ash, lime, and seawater gave Roman builders a concrete that hardened underwater.

    Architecture

  • Curry powder began as a compounding of a dozen spices into one blend that shopkeepers could sell in a tin.

    Cooking

  • German poets delight in the compounding of two plain nouns into a single word no dictionary has yet recorded.

    Literature

  • Tire factories call the compounding of raw rubber, carbon black, and sulfur the step that decides how long a tread lasts.

    Technology

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