Abbreviation for 'compound,' used in chemistry, pharmacy, and technical writing to save space.
Abbreviated form of compound (from Latin com- 'together' + componere 'to put together'). Scientific and medical writing developed this shorthand for efficiency.
Abbreviations like 'compd' show how specialized fields develop their own shorthand—while it saves space in lab notebooks, it's intelligible only to those in the field, creating insider language that simultaneously speeds communication and excludes outsiders.
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