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Combining vs Compounding - What's the difference?

combining | compounding |

As verbs the difference between combining and compounding

is that combining is present participle of lang=en while compounding is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between combining and compounding

is that combining is the act by which things are combined or brought together while compounding is an accumulation of compound interest.

combining

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which things are combined or brought together.
  • * (Charles Dickens), The Old Curiosity Shop
    • these little combinings together, of friends, for objects in themselves extremely laudable, but which the law terms conspiracies

    compounding

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An accumulation of compound interest.
    • the number of compoundings per year