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compact¹

—*adj*
1.	closely packed together; dense
2.	neatly fitted into a restricted space
3.	concise; brief
4.	well constructed; solid; firm
5.	(foll by of) composed or made up (of)
6.	denoting a tabloid-sized version of a newspaper that has traditionally been published in broadsheet form
7.	logic (of a relation) having the property that for any pair of elements such that a is related to b, there is some element c such that a is related to c and c to b, as less than on the rational numbers
8.	(US), (Canadian) (of a car) small and economical

—vb
9.	to pack or join closely together; compress; condense
10.	(foll by of) to create or form by pressing together: sediment compacted of three types of clay
11.	metallurgy to compress (a metal powder) to form a stable product suitable for sintering

—n
12.	a small flat case containing a mirror, face powder, etc, designed to be carried in a woman's handbag
13.	(US), (Canadian) a comparatively small and economical car
14.	metallurgy a mass of metal prepared for sintering by cold-pressing a metal powder
15.	a tabloid-sized version of a newspaper that has traditionally been publis hed in broadsheet form

[C16: from Latin compactus, from compingere to put together, from com- together + pangere to fasten]

com'pacter¹

—n

com'paction¹

—n

com'pactly¹

—*adv*

com'pactness¹

—n

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