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Adjective
/kəmˈpakt/,/käm-/,/ˈkämˌpakt/,
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Closely and neatly packed together; dense,
  1. Closely and neatly packed together; dense
    • - a compact cluster of houses
  2. Having all the necessary components or features neatly fitted into a small space
    • - a compact car
  3. (of a person or animal) Small, solid, and well-proportioned

  4. (of speech or writing) Concise in expression
    • - a compact summary of the play
  5. Composed or made up of
    • - towns compact of wooden houses
Verb
  1. Make or enter into (a formal agreement) with another party or parties
    • - the Democratic Party compacted an alliance with dissident groups
Noun
  1. A formal agreement or contract between two or more parties

  1. closely and firmly united or packed together; "compact soil"; "compact clusters of flowers"
  2. a small cosmetics case with a mirror; to be carried in a woman's purse
  3. have the property of being packable or of compacting easily; "This powder compacts easily"; "Such odd-shaped items do not pack well"
  4. covenant: a signed written agreement between two or more parties (nations) to perform some action
  5. having a short and solid form or stature; "a wrestler of compact build"; "he was tall and heavyset"; "stocky legs"; "a thickset young man"
  6. pack: compress into a wad; "wad paper into the box"
  7. A compact car (North America), or small family car (Europe), is a classification of cars which are larger than a supermini but smaller than or equal to a mid-size car. ...
  8. NTFS (New Technology File System) is the standard file system of Windows NT, including its later versions Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, and Windows 7.
  9. A compact is cosmetic product. It is usually contained in a small, round case, with two or all of the following: a mirror, pressed powder, and a powder puff. The term is an abbreviation for "compact powder". ...
  10. Compact Software was the first successful microwave computer-aided design (CAD) company. It was founded in 1973 by Les Besser to commercialize his eponymous program COMPACT (Computerized Optimization of Microwave Passive and Active CircuiTs), released when he was at Farinon Electric Company.
  11. A compact newspaper is a broadsheet-quality newspaper printed in a tabloid format, especially one in the United Kingdom. The term is used also for this size (not to be confused with 4.25 × 6. ...
  12. In mathematics, more specifically general topology and metric topology, a compact space is an abstract mathematical space in which, intuitively, whenever one takes an infinite number of "steps" in the space, eventually one must get arbitrarily close to some other point of the space. ...
  13. An agreement or contract; To make more dense; to compress; Closely packed, i.e. packing much in a small space; Having all necessary features fitting neatly into a small space; (of a set in an Euclidean space) Closed and bounded; Such that every exhaustion of it by (overlapping) open balls has ...
  14. (Compactness) The degree to which the territory assigned to a district is close together. There are several mathematical ways to measure the elements of compactness.
  15. (Compactness) A term used to describe a district’s geographic shape.  Compactness in redistricting cases often focuses on the regularity or jaggedness of a district boundary and on the extent to which the district’s geographic territory is dispersed from its center.
  16. (Compactness) The driveshaft and bevel gears take up less volume than an enclosed chain.
  17. (Compactness) The spacing between fuel particles.  This can be especially important in the surface layer of fuels where the amount of air circulation affects rate of drying, rate of combustion, etc.
  18. (Compactness) districts which are not spread out or too jagged.
  19. (Compactness) you can perform a full compatibility check by simply copying the application together with the test scripts on all the platforms where you believe it should work. It can give you the confirmation that all functionality works indeed as expected. ...
  20. (Compacts) Formal working agreements among agencies to obtain mutual aid.
  21. (Compacts) Relationships between HEIs and schools to encourage pupils to study at the HEI.
  22. as in "compact experience": perception of reality as composed of aspects not yet distinguished. Contrast "differentiated".
  23. A logic is compact if for any countable set of sentences Δ, there is a finite subset δ of Δ such that δ is unsatisfiable iff Δ is unsatisfiable.
  24. distance from geometric center is similar (e.g., Germany, Hungary,…)
  25. Closely put together; not rangy. Neat.