Dictionary
com•pact
Pronunciation: (
—adj.kum-pakt', kom-, kom'pakt;
—v.kum-pakt';
—n.kom'pakt), [key]—
adj.
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 fol. by
of):
a book compact of form and content.
7. Also,bicompact. Math.(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.
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v.t.
1. to join or pack closely together; consolidate; condense.
2. to make firm or stable.
3. to form or make by close union or conjunction; make up or compose.
4. Metall.to compress (metallic or metallic and nonmetallic powders) in a die to be sintered.
5. to crush into compact form for convenient disposal or for storage until disposal:
to compact rubbish.
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n.
1. a small case containing a mirror, face powder, a puff, and sometimes rouge.
2. Also called
com'pact 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 m
3).
3. Metall.(in powder metallurgy) an object to be sintered formed of metallic or of metallic and nonmetallic powders compressed in a die.
com•pact
Pronunciation: (kom'pakt), [key]—
n.
a formal agreement between two or more parties, states, etc.; contract:
the proposed economic compact between Germany and France. Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.
