Compaction

//kəmˈpækʃən// noun

noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The process of compacting something, or something that has been compacted. countable, uncountable

    "At Smithfield Frith is being shovelled up, his youth, his grace, his learning and his beauty: a compaction of mud, grease, charred bone."

  2. 2
    the act of crushing wordnet
  3. 3
    an increase in the density of something wordnet

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abbreviationadherenceagglomerationagglutinationastringencybottleneck

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"The weight of structures on the delta, decreased upstream sediment flows and natural compaction are also contributing factors to the loss of delta land, he said."

Etymology

From Old French compaction, from Latin compactionem, from compingere.

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