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Compact
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- 1 Agreed, contracted. archaic, not-comparable
"O Gorice XI., most glorious King of Witchland, and O Lord Goldry Bluszco, captain of the hosts of Demonland, it is compact betwixt you, and made fast by mighty oaths whereof I, the Red Foliot, am keeper, that ye shall wrastle three falls together on these conditions, […]"
- 2 Closely packed or densely constituted; having much material in a small volume.
"glass, crystal, gems, and other compact bodies"
- 3 Having all necessary features fitting neatly into a small space.
"a compact laptop computer"
- 4 Brief and pithy; not verbose.
"a compact discourse"
- 5 Of a topological space:; Such that every open cover has a finite subcover. In a metric space, this is equivalent to being sequentially compact. In metric spaces with the Heine-Borel property, this is equivalent to being closed and bounded. not-comparable
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- 6 Of a topological space:; Compact in the above sense and moreover Hausdorff. not-comparable
- 7 Joined or held together; leagued; confederated. obsolete
"Thou fooliſh Frier, and thou pernicious woman / Compact with her that's gone:"
- 8 Composed or made; with of. obsolete
"A wandering fire, / Compact of unctuous vapor."
- 1 closely and firmly united or packed together wordnet
- 2 briefly giving the gist of something wordnet
- 3 having a short and solid form or stature wordnet
- 1 An agreement or contract.
"President Biden laid out an ambitious agenda on Wednesday night to rewrite the American social compact by vastly expanding family leave, child care, health care, preschool and college education for millions of people to be financed with increased taxes on the wealthiest earners."
- 2 A slim folding case, often featuring a mirror, powder and a powder puff, small enough to fit in a woman's purse, handbag, or pocket.
- 3 a small cosmetics case with a mirror; to be carried in a woman's purse wordnet
- 4 An automobile that is larger than a subcompact but smaller than an intermediate.
- 5 a small and economical car wordnet
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- 6 A broadsheet newspaper published in the size of a tabloid but keeping its non-sensational style.
"The Dundee Courier has announced the newspaper will be relaunching as a compact later this week. Editor Richard Neville said a "brighter, bolder" paper would appear from Saturday, shrunk from broadsheet to tabloid size."
- 7 a signed written agreement between two or more parties (nations) to perform some action wordnet
- 1 To form an agreement or contract. intransitive
"In return for the sovereign's protection, they compacted to police the content of public literature."
- 2 To make more dense; to compress. transitive
"You need to excavate and remove the topsoil, line the subsoil with a geotextile, then lay and compact hardcore."
- 3 squeeze or press together wordnet
- 4 To unite or connect firmly, as in a system.
"The whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth."
- 5 make more compact by or as if by pressing wordnet
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- 6 compress into a wad wordnet
- 7 have the property of being packable or of compacting easily wordnet
Etymology
From Latin compactum (“agreement”).
From Latin compactum (“agreement”).
From Latin compactum (“agreement”).
From Middle French compact, from Latin compāctus, perfect passive participle of compingō (“join together”), from com- (“together”) + pangō (“fasten”), from Proto-Indo-European *pag- (“to fasten”).
From Middle French compact, from Latin compāctus, perfect passive participle of compingō (“join together”), from com- (“together”) + pangō (“fasten”), from Proto-Indo-European *pag- (“to fasten”).
From Middle French compact, from Latin compāctus, perfect passive participle of compingō (“join together”), from com- (“together”) + pangō (“fasten”), from Proto-Indo-European *pag- (“to fasten”).
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