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noun
a quantity expressed in more than one denomination or unit, as one foot six inches or one minute twenty seconds.
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Origin of compound number
First recorded in 1550–60
Words nearby compound number
compound interval,
compound leaf,
compound lens,
compound magnet,
compound microscope,
compound number,
compound ovary,
compound pendulum,
compound Q,
compound sentence,
compound sugar Dictionary.com Unabridged
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How to use compound number in a sentence
“Our members continue to face a number of challenges,” she said.
The number of dissenters though is unprecedented in the modern era.
Starting under Theodore Roosevelt and Howard Taft, embassies headed by career diplomats increased in number.
The number of diplomats was pitiful (45 appointees in 1860), as was the amount of money allocated to them.
Jett sees this number as a marker of how much the president allows professionals to do the job.
The country is well inhabited, for it contains fifty-one cities, near a hundred walled towns, and a great number of villages.
We had six field-pieces, but we only took four, harnessed wit twice the usual number of horses.
There are a number of bacilli, called acid-fast bacilli, which stain in the same way as the tubercle bacillus.
Five of the number had studied with Liszt before, and the young men are artists already before the public.
He, with others, thinking the miss-sahib had gone to church, was smoking the hookah of gossip in a neighboring compound.
British Dictionary definitions for compound number
noun
a quantity expressed in two or more different but related units3 hours 10 seconds is a compound number
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