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compound element - [standards] Within metadata, a group of data elements (including other compound elements) that together describe a characteristic of a spatial dataset in more detail than can be described by an individual data element.
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Source: esri, 28 February 2012 09:44:16, http://support.esri.com/en/knowledgebase/GISDictionary/term/abbreviation
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