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compound

compound In this cognition context, a compound is a pair of separate words that combine into one meaningful, semantically coherent expression.

In this cognition context, a compound is a pair of separate words that combine into one meaningful, semantically coherent expression. Because the words fit together into a familiar whole, people tend to process and remember them more like a single item than like two unrelated words.