Dictionary

compound interest en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio

Meanings

1. (uncountable, usually) Interest, as on a loan or a bank account, that is calculated on the total on the principal plus accumulated unpaid interest.
   • […] tens of thousands of other foot passengers have been slipping and sliding since the day broke (if this day ever broke), adding new deposits to the crust upon crust of mud, sticking at those points tenaciously to the pavement, and accumulating at compound interest. 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter 1, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:
   • Arithmetic books published during the fifteenth and first half of the sixteenth centuries have little to say about interest although the practice of calculating compound interest was old at that time. 2014 [1967], C. Attwood, Compound Interest Functions: Practical Tables Series, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 210:

Forms

Coordinates

super-compound interest · simple interest

Translations (39)

unm ahànchi nichanu (interest calculated on principal plus any unpaid interest) · pt juros compostos (interest calculated on principal plus any unpaid interest) · cs složené úročení (interest calculated on principal plus any unpaid interest) · te చక్రవడ్డీ (interest calculated on principal plus any unpaid interest) · sv sammansatt ränta (interest calculated on principal plus any unpaid interest) · es interés compuesto (interest calculated on principal plus any unpaid interest) · my အတိုးရင်းပွား (interest calculated on principal plus any unpaid interest) · fr intérêts composés (interest calculated on principal plus any unpaid interest) · no rentes rente (interest calculated on principal plus any unpaid interest) · nl samengestelde interest (interest calculated on principal plus any unpaid interest) · de Zinseszins (interest calculated on principal plus any unpaid interest) · tl lambalang tubo (interest calculated on principal plus any unpaid interest) · hu kamatos kamat (interest calculated on principal plus any unpaid interest) · ru сло́жные проце́нты (interest calculated on principal plus any unpaid interest) · sv ränta på ränta (interest calculated on principal plus any unpaid interest) · ms faedah kompaun (interest calculated on principal plus any unpaid interest) · gd riadh fillte (interest calculated on principal plus any unpaid interest) · la anatocismus (interest calculated on principal plus any unpaid interest) · it interesse composto (interest calculated on principal plus any unpaid interest) · ka რთული პროცენტი (interest calculated on principal plus any unpaid interest) · hi चक्रवृद्धि ब्याज (interest calculated on principal plus any unpaid interest) · id bunga berbunga (interest calculated on principal plus any unpaid interest) · cy adlog (interest calculated on principal plus any unpaid interest) · cmn 利滚利 (interest calculated on principal plus any unpaid interest) · gu ચક્રવૃદ્ધિ વ્યાજ (interest calculated on principal plus any unpaid interest) · el ανατοκισμός (interest calculated on principal plus any unpaid interest) · ga ús iolraithe (interest calculated on principal plus any unpaid interest) · ko 복리 (interest calculated on principal plus any unpaid interest) · fi koronkorko (interest calculated on principal plus any unpaid interest) · haw kuala ʻano hui (interest calculated on principal plus any unpaid interest) · cmn 複利 /复利 (interest calculated on principal plus any unpaid interest) · scn ntiressi cumpostu (interest calculated on principal plus any unpaid interest) · id bunga majemuk (interest calculated on principal plus any unpaid interest) · haw kuala hoʻohui (interest calculated on principal plus any unpaid interest) · mi huamoni whakaputu (interest calculated on principal plus any unpaid interest) · pl odsetki złożone (interest calculated on principal plus any unpaid interest) · grc ἀνατοκισμός (interest calculated on principal plus any unpaid interest) · ja 複利 (interest calculated on principal plus any unpaid interest) · da renters rente (interest calculated on principal plus any unpaid interest)