Compounding

• Compounding is the stringing together of separate roots

• This type of word-building is common in chemistry or medicine, for example:

chlorofluorocarbon (chloro+fluoro+carbon)

benzoylnitroacetanilide (benzoyl+nitro+acet+anilide)

agoraphobia, crankshaft, daisy-wheel, kleptomania, radioisotope, steady-state, turboprop, wavelength

ammonium chloride, atomic mass unit, bar code, central nervous system, Parkinson's disease, shock absorber

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