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  2. Joint compound - Wikipedia

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    Joint compound (also known as drywall compound, drywall mud, joint cement or mastic) is a white powder of primarily gypsum dust mixed with water to form a paste the consistency of cake frosting, which is spread onto drywall and sanded when dry to create a seamless base for paint on walls and ceilings.

  3. Compound (enclosure) - Wikipedia

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    2) Inside compound - House and huts - Bathurst, Gambia - December 1910 3) Pig sty in compound - Bathurst, Gambia - December 1910. Compound, when applied to a human habitat, refers to a cluster of buildings in an enclosure, having a shared or associated purpose, such as the houses of an extended family (e.g. the Kennedy Compound for the Kennedy ...

  4. Joint - Wikipedia

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    According to the anatomic classification, joints are subdivided into simple and compound, depending on the number of bones involved, and into complex and combination joints: [19] Simple joint: two articulation surfaces (e.g. shoulder joint, hip joint) Compound joint: three or more articulation surfaces (e.g. radiocarpal joint)

  5. List of house types - Wikipedia

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    A wooden house in Tartu, Estonia. This is a list of house types.Houses can be built in a large variety of configurations. A basic division is between free-standing or single-family detached homes and various types of attached or multi-family residential dwellings.

  6. Compound (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Agglutinative languages tend to create very long words with derivational morphemes. Compounds may or may not require the use of derivational morphemes also. In German, extremely extendable compound words can be found in the language of chemical compounds, where, in the cases of biochemistry and polymers, they can be practically unlimited in length, mostly because the German rule suggests ...

  7. What is compound interest? How compounding works to ... - AOL

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    Compound interest can help turbocharge your savings and investments or quickly lead to an unruly balance, stuck in a cycle of debt. Learn more about what compound interest is and how it works.

  8. Middletown settles on new joint middle-high school design ...

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    The building will be designed to accommodate at least 1,086 students, the projected enrollment of the future middle-high school.

  9. English compound - Wikipedia

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    English compound modifiers are constructed in a very similar way to the compound noun. Blackboard Jungle, leftover ingredients, gunmetal sheen, and green monkey disease are only a few examples. A compound modifier is a sequence of modifiers of a noun that function as a single unit.