compound number

1. 1.

   a quantity expressed in two different units

   “one hour and ten minutes”

   Broadernumber

Questions about compound number

What does compound number mean?

compound number means "a quantity expressed in two different units".

Is compound number a common word?

compound number is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.