(physics) The increase in the wavelength, and corresponding decrease in the energy, of photons (especially of X-rays and gamma rays) when scattered by interaction with matter

A village in Compton and Shawford parish, Winchester district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU4625). / A suburb of Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SO8898).

(physics) The result of the Compton effect; particularly, the redistribution of the energies of photons scattered by electrons in space

(rare) countess

plural of comptrollership

The position or office of a comptroller.

(obsolete) neatly

(obsolete) accountable; responsible / (obsolete) sensitive

plural of comptrol

Archaic form of control.