COMPOUNDING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does compounding mean? 

• COMPOUNDING (noun)
  The noun COMPOUNDING has 1 sense:

1. the act of combining things to form a new whole

  Familiarity information: COMPOUNDING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMPOUNDING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of combining things to form a new whole

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

combination; combining; compounding

Hypernyms ("compounding" is a kind of...):

change of integrity (the act of changing the unity or wholeness of something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "compounding"):

affixation; attachment (the act of attaching or affixing something)

confusion (an act causing a disorderly combination of elements with identities lost and distinctions blended)

admixture; commixture; intermixture; mix; mixing; mixture (the act of mixing together)

fusion (the act of fusing (or melting) together)

blend; blending (the act of blending components together thoroughly)

interspersal; interspersion (the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things)

temperance (the act of tempering)

conjugation; jointure; unification; union; uniting (the act of making or becoming a single unit)

consolidation; integration (the act of combining into an integral whole)

Derivation:

compound (put or add together)

compound (combine so as to form a whole; mix)

compound (create by mixing or combining)

 Context examples 

A site designated as an establishment for outsourcing of human drug compounding.

(Human Drug Compounding Outsourcing Facility, NCI Thesaurus)

Compounding drug dosage forms for human consumption under a contract by other sources than the facilities that use the pharmaceutics.

(Outsourcing Human Drug Compounding, NCI Thesaurus)

“Trot, my dear,” said my aunt, when she saw me making preparations for compounding her usual night-draught, “No!”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A marketing category for bulk ingredients intended for individual compounding for veterinary patients, regardless of the existence of a prescription.

(Bulk Ingredient for Animal Drug Compounding, NCI Thesaurus)

This includes the preparation, compounding, and dispensing of drugs, as well as the characteristics and properties of drugs, their effects on the body, and how they are metabolized and eliminated from the body.

(Pharmacology, NCI Thesaurus)

The practice of compounding and dispensing medicinal preparations.

(Pharmaceutics, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A tablet composed of a large amount of active and/or inert ingredient(s) that can be used in compounding prescriptions to ensure accurate quantity of ingredient within the final, compounded form .

(Dispensing Tablet Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus)

That I knew the ingredients very well, which were cheap and common; I understood the manner of compounding them, and could direct his workmen how to make those tubes, of a size proportionable to all other things in his majesty’s kingdom, and the largest need not be above a hundred feet long; twenty or thirty of which tubes, charged with the proper quantity of powder and balls, would batter down the walls of the strongest town in his dominions in a few hours, or destroy the whole metropolis, if ever it should pretend to dispute his absolute commands.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)