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Compaction

//kəmˈpækʃən// noun

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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

Etymology

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

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