United States physicist noted for research on x-rays and gamma rays and nuclear energy; his observation that X-rays behave like miniature bowling balls in their interactions with electrons provided evidence for the quantal nature of light (1892-1962)

Short for the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, the second of NASA's Great Observatories. The satellite was named for Nobel Laureate Arthur Holly Compton, a physicist famous for his work on understanding how high energy photons scatter in collisions with electrons. The Compton Observatory houses four gamma-ray instruments: BATSE, COMPTEL, EGRET, and OSSE.

a city located in Los Angeles County, California

Compton is a station on Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority's Metro Blue Line. It has an island platform, and is located in the median of Willowbrook Avenue at Compton Avenue roughly in the center of Compton, California. The station is located adjacent to the Renassiance Center Shopping Center.

Compton is a prominent lunar crater that is located in the northern hemisphere on the far side of the Moon. It lies to the east of the Mare Humboldtianum, and southwest of the Schwarzschild walled-plain. To the southeast of Compton is the heavily eroded Swann crater.

Compton (also known as Mégantic—Compton—Stanstead) was a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1867 to 1949, and again from 1968 to 1997.

n. a stretch of off-road trail covered with half buried rocks.