The phrase "compound term" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a term that consists of two or more words combined to create a single concept or idea.
Example: "In linguistics, a compound term like 'toothbrush' combines two distinct words into one."
Alternatives: "composite term" or "multi-word term".
A tangential cavil: to me, an acronym is a pronounceable word created out of the initials or major parts of a compound term, like NATO, radar, or TriBeCa.
Like my predecessor William Safire, I prefer defining acronym as "a pronounceable word created out of the initials or major parts of a compound term, like NATO, radar or TriBeCa".
Acronyms are words formed by taking the first initial or other parts of words from a compound term.
The economic channel is represented by gray arrows using the compound term economic situation, which includes short-term credit constraints and long-run effects of assets.
In order to separate different kinds of things, we use "separating names" such as "bird" and "beast", stopping only when we cannot further separate different kinds.[17] The point may be that a single and a compound term do not repel one another when the compound term distinguishes a part of the extension of the single term, as is the case with "white horse" and "horse".
Here he is probably referring to arguments of the sort used in the Gongsun Longzi to defend the claim that white horses are not horses, which appear to entail that nothing can ever be appropriately described both with a compound term (such as "white horse") and with a single term (such as "horse").
Other problems concerned the semantics of compound terms, or phrases.
Xunzi turns first to compound terms, insisting that single and compound terms can be shared without difficulty.
Primitive terms comprise variables and constants, whereas compound terms are formed by combining terms.
Likewise compound terms can be created in respect to the 1st hidden layer variables e.g. (13).
First one is a separation of tokens with a hyphen "-", which often leads to mistakes in recognizing compound terms.
