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Definitions for Compact

[1] joined or packed together; closely and firmly united; dense; solid: compact soil.
[2] arranged within a relatively small space: a compact shopping center; a compact kitchen.
[3] designed to be small in size and economical in operation.
[4] solidly or firmly built: the compact body of a lightweight wrestler.
[5] expressed concisely; pithy; terse; not diffuse: a compact review of the week's news.
[6] composed or made (usually followed by of ): a book compact of form and content.
[7] Also bicompact. Mathematics . (of a set) having the property that in any collection of open sets whose union contains the given set there exists a finite number of open sets whose union contains the given set; having the property that every open cover has a finite subcover.
[8] to join or pack closely together; consolidate; condense.
[9] to make firm or stable.
[10] to form or make by close union or conjunction; make up or compose.
[11] Metallurgy . to compress (metallic or metallic and nonmetallic powders) in a die to be sintered.
[12] to crush into compact form for convenient disposal or for storage until disposal: to compact rubbish.
[13] a small case containing a mirror, face powder, a puff, and sometimes rouge.
[14] Also called compact car . an automobile that is smaller than an intermediate but larger than a subcompact and generally has a combined passenger and luggage volume of 100–110 cu. ft. (2.8–3.1 m3 ).
[15] Metallurgy . (in powder metallurgy) an object to be sintered formed of metallic or of metallic and nonmetallic powders compressed in a die.
[16] a formal agreement between two or more parties, states, etc.; contract: the proposed economic compact between Germany and France.
[17] closely packed together; dense
[18] neatly fitted into a restricted space
[19] concise; brief
[20] well constructed; solid; firm
[21] (foll by of) composed or made up (of)
[22] denoting a tabloid-sized version of a newspaper that has traditionally been published in broadsheet form
[23] logic (of a relation) having the property that for any pair of elements such that a is related to b, there is some element c such that a is related to c and c to b, as less than on the rational numbers
[24] US and Canadian (of a car) small and economical
[25] to pack or join closely together; compress; condense
[26] (foll by of) to create or form by pressing together sediment compacted of three types of clay
[27] metallurgy to compress (a metal powder) to form a stable product suitable for sintering
[28] a small flat case containing a mirror, face powder, etc, designed to be carried in a woman's handbag
[29] US and Canadian a comparatively small and economical car
[30] metallurgy a mass of metal prepared for sintering by cold-pressing a metal powder
[31] a tabloid-sized version of a newspaper that has traditionally been publis hed in broadsheet form
[32] an official contract or agreement

Words related to Compact

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Words nearby Compact

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Origin of Compact

21580–90; < Latin compactum, compectum, noun use of neuter of compactus (past participle of compacīscī to make an agreement), equivalent to com- com- + pac- (stem of pacīscī to secure by negotiation, akin to pāx settlement ending hostilities, peace) + -tus past participle ending

Other words from Compact

com·pact·ed·ly , adverb
com·pact·ed·ness , noun
com·pact·ly , adverb
com·pact·ness , noun
un·com·pact·ed , adjective
well-com·pact·ed , adjective

Word origin for Compact

C16: from Latin compactum, from compaciscī to agree, from com- together + paciscī to contract; see pact

Synonyms for Compact

solid, tight, bunched, close, compressed, crowded, firm, packed, pressed, thick, appressed, dense, hard, impenetrable, impermeable