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Compound vs. Formula — What's the Difference?

Compound vs. Formula — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Compound and Formula

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Compound

To combine so as to form a whole; mix
Tin was often compounded with lead to make pewter.

Formula

In science, a formula is a concise way of expressing information symbolically, as in a mathematical formula or a chemical formula. The informal use of the term formula in science refers to the general construct of a relationship between given quantities.

Compound

To produce or create by combining two or more ingredients or parts; compose or make up
Pharmacists compounding prescriptions.

Formula

An established form of words or symbols for use in a ceremony or procedure.

Compound

To settle (a debt, for example) by agreeing on an amount less than the claim; adjust.
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Formula

An utterance of conventional notions or beliefs; a hackneyed expression.

Compound

To compute (interest) on the principal and accrued interest.

Formula

A method of doing or treating something that relies on an established, uncontroversial model or approach
A new situation comedy that simply uses an old formula.

Compound

To add to or intensify so as to make worse
"The university authorities ... compounded their crime in dismissing [the professor] by denying that their action ... reflected any abridgment of academic freedom" (John Kenneth Galbraith).

Formula

A symbolic representation of the composition or of the composition and structure of a compound.

Compound

To make worse by being an additional or intensifying factor
High winds compounded the difficulties of the firefighters.

Formula

The compound so represented.

Compound

To combine in or form a compound.

Formula

A prescription of ingredients in fixed proportion; a recipe.

Compound

To come to terms; agree.

Formula

A liquid food for infants, containing most of the nutrients in human milk.

Compound

Consisting of two or more substances, ingredients, elements, or parts.

Formula

(Mathematics) A statement, especially an equation, of a fact, rule, principle, or other logical relation.

Compound

(Botany) Composed of more than one part
A compound pistil.

Formula

Formula(Sports) A set of specifications, including engine displacement, fuel capacity, and weight, that determine a class of racing car.

Compound

A combination of two or more elements or parts.

Formula

(mathematics) Any mathematical rule expressed symbolically.
x = \frac {-b \pm \sqrt{b^2 - 4ac}}{2a} is a formula for finding the roots of the quadratic equation ax2 + bx + c = 0.

Compound

(Linguistics) A word that consists either of two or more elements that are independent words, such as loudspeaker, self-portrait, or high school, or of specially modified combining forms of words, such as Greek philosophia, from philo-, "loving," and sophia, "wisdom."

Formula

(chemistry) A symbolic expression of the structure of a compound.
H2O is the formula for water.

Compound

(Chemistry) A pure, macroscopically homogeneous substance consisting of atoms or ions of two or more different elements in definite proportions that cannot be separated by physical means. A compound usually has properties unlike those of its constituent elements.

Formula

A plan or method for dealing with a problem or for achieving a result.
The company's winning formula includes excellent service and quality products.

Compound

A building or buildings, especially a residence or group of residences, set off and enclosed by a barrier.

Formula

A formulation; a prescription; a mixture or solution made in a prescribed manner; the identity and quantities of ingredients of such a mixture.
The formula of the rocket fuel has not been revealed.

Compound

An enclosed area used for confining prisoners of war.

Formula

A formal statement of doctrine.

Compound

An enclosure within which workers, prisoners, or soldiers are confined.

Formula

Ellipsis of infant formula; drink given to babies to substitute for mother's milk.

Compound

An enclosure for secure storage.

Formula

(logic) A syntactic expression of a proposition, built up from quantifiers, logical connectives, variables, relation and operation symbols, and, depending on the type of logic, possibly other operators such as modal, temporal, deontic or epistemic ones.

Compound

A group of buildings situated close together, e.g. for a school or block of offices.

Formula

A prescribed or set form; an established rule; a fixed or conventional method in which anything is to be done, arranged, or said.

Compound

Anything made by combining several things.

Formula

A written confession of faith; a formal statement of foctrines.

Compound

(chemistry) A substance formed by chemical bonding of two or more elements in definite proportions by weight.

Formula

A rule or principle expressed in algebraic language; as, the binominal formula.

Compound

A substance made from any combination of ingredients.

Formula

A prescription or recipe for the preparation of a medicinal compound.

Compound

(linguistics) A lexeme that consists of more than one stem.

Formula

A symbolic expression (by means of letters, figures, etc.) of the constituents or constitution of a compound.

Compound

(linguistics) A lexeme that consists of more than one stem or an affix, e.g. bookshop, high school or non-standard.

Formula

A group of symbols that make a mathematical statement

Compound

(rail) A compound locomotive, a steam locomotive with both high-pressure and low-pressure cylinders.

Formula

Directions for making something

Compound

Composed of elements; not simple.
A compound word

Formula

A conventionalized statement expressing some fundamental principle

Compound

(math) Dealing with numbers of various denominations of quantity, or with processes more complex than the simple process.
Compound addition
Compound proportion

Formula

A representation of a substance using symbols for its constituent elements

Compound

(music) An octave higher than originally (i.e. a compound major second is equivalent to a major ninth).

Formula

Something regarded as a normative example;
The convention of not naming the main character
Violence is the rule not the exception
His formula for impressing visitors

Compound

(transitive) To form (a resulting mixture) by combining different elements, ingredients, or parts; to mingle with something else.
To compound a medicine

Formula

A liquid food for infants

Compound

To settle by agreeing on less than the claim, or on different terms than those stipulated.
To compound a debt

Formula

(mathematics) a standard procedure for solving a class of mathematical problems;
He determined the upper bound with Descartes' rule of signs
He gave us a general formula for attacking polynomials

Compound

(transitive) To settle amicably; to adjust by agreement.

Compound

(intransitive) To come to terms of agreement; to settle by a compromise.
To compound with someone / for something

Compound

To compose; to constitute.

Compound

To increase in value with interest, where the interest is earned on both the principal sum and prior earned interest.

Compound

To worsen a situation.

Compound

Of a horse: to fail to maintain speed.

Compound

In the East Indies, an inclosure containing a house, outbuildings, etc.

Compound

That which is compounded or formed by the union or mixture of elements ingredients, or parts; a combination of simples; a compound word; the result of composition.
Rare compound of oddity, frolic, and fun.
When the word "bishopric" was first made, it was made as a compound.

Compound

A union of two or more ingredients in definite proportions by weight, so combined as to form a distinct substance; as, water is a compound of oxygen and hydrogen.

Compound

To form or make by combining different elements, ingredients, or parts; as, to compound a medicine.
Incapacitating him from successfully compounding a tale of this sort.

Compound

To put together, as elements, ingredients, or parts, in order to form a whole; to combine, mix, or unite.
We have the power of altering and compounding those images into all the varieties of picture.

Compound

To modify or change by combination with some other thing or part; to mingle with something else.
Only compound me with forgotten dust.

Compound

To compose; to constitute.
His pomp and all what state compounds.

Compound

To settle amicably; to adjust by agreement; to compromise; to discharge from obligation upon terms different from those which were stipulated; as, to compound a debt.
I pray, my lords, let me compound this strife.

Compound

To effect a composition; to come to terms of agreement; to agree; to settle by a compromise; - usually followed by with before the person participating, and for before the thing compounded or the consideration.
Here's a fellow will help you to-morrow; . . . compound with him by the year.
They were at last glad to compound for his bare commitment to the Tower.
Cornwall compounded to furnish ten oxen after Michaelmas for thirty pounds.
Compound for sins they are inclined toBy damning those they have no mind to.

Compound

Composed of two or more elements, ingredients, parts; produced by the union of several ingredients, parts, or things; composite; as, a compound word.
Compound substances are made up of two or more simple substances.

Compound

(chemistry) a substance formed by chemical union of two or more elements or ingredients in definite proportion by weight

Compound

A whole formed by a union of two or more elements or parts

Compound

An enclosure of residences and other building (especially in the Orient)

Compound

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

Compound

Put or add together;
Combine resources

Compound

Calculate principal and interest

Compound

Create by mixing or combining

Compound

Combine so as to form a whole; mix;
Compound the ingredients

Compound

Of leaf shapes; of leaves composed of several similar parts or lobes

Compound

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

Compound

Composed of many distinct individuals united to form a whole or colony;
Coral is a colonial organism

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