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Caulking Compound: A semidrying or slow drying plastic material used to seal joints or fill crevices around windows, chimneys.

Discrete Compounding: An adjustment of a stock's price as speculators bid the price up or down in anticipation of news about the company, whether good or bad.

Glazing Compound: Putty used to set glass in window frames and to fill nail holes and cracks.

Inorganic Compound: A compound that does not contain carbon chemically bound to hydrogen. Carbonates, bicarbonates, carbides, and carbon oxides are considered inorganic compounds, even though they contain carbon.

Ionic Compound: A compound made of distinguishable cations and anions, held together by electrostatic forces.

Covalent Compound: A compound made of molecules- not ions. The atoms in the compound are bound together by shared electrons. Also called a molecular compound.

Compounding: Compounding occurs when your investment earnings or savings account interest is added to your principal, forming a larger base on which future earnings may accumulate. As your investment bas . . . View Full Definition

Compounding Frequency: The process of accumulating the time value of money forward in time. For example, interest earned in one period earns additional interest during each subsequent time period.

Compounding Period: The number of compounding periods in a year. For example, quarterly compounding has a compounding frequency of 4.

Continuous Compounding: Under ERISA, a firm is liable to its pension plan participants for up to 39% of the net worth of the firm.