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compact
1[ adjective kuhm-pakt, kom-, kom-pakt; verb kuhm-pakt; noun kom-pakt ]
adjective
compact soil.
- arranged within a relatively small space:
a compact shopping center;
a compact kitchen.
- designed to be small in size and economical in operation.
- solidly or firmly built:
the compact body of a lightweight wrestler.
a compact review of the week's news.
- composed or made (usually followed by of ):
a book compact of form and content.
verb (used with object)
- to join or pack closely together; consolidate; condense.
Synonyms: compress
- to make firm or stable.
- to form or make by close union or conjunction; make up or compose.
- Metallurgy. to compress (metallic or metallic and nonmetallic powders) in a die to be sintered.
- to crush into compact form for convenient disposal or for storage until disposal:
to compact rubbish.
noun
- a small case containing a mirror, face powder, a puff, and sometimes rouge.
- Also called compact 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 ).
- Metallurgy. (in powder metallurgy) an object to be sintered formed of metallic or of metallic and nonmetallic powders compressed in a die.
compact
1adjective
- closely packed together; dense
- neatly fitted into a restricted space
- concise; brief
- well constructed; solid; firm
- foll by of composed or made up (of)
- denoting a tabloid-sized version of a newspaper that has traditionally been published in broadsheet form
- 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
- (of a car) small and economical
verb
- to pack or join closely together; compress; condense
- foll by of to create or form by pressing together
sediment compacted of three types of clay
- metallurgy to compress (a metal powder) to form a stable product suitable for sintering
noun
- a small flat case containing a mirror, face powder, etc, designed to be carried in a woman's handbag
- a comparatively small and economical car
- metallurgy a mass of metal prepared for sintering by cold-pressing a metal powder
- a tabloid-sized version of a newspaper that has traditionally been publis hed in broadsheet form
compact
2/ ˈkɒmpækt /
noun
- an official contract or agreement
Derived Forms
- comˈpacter, noun
- comˈpactly, adverb
- comˈpaction, noun
- comˈpactness, noun
Other Words From
- com·pact·ed·ly adverb
- com·pact·ed·ness noun
- com·pact·ly adverb
- com·pact·ness noun
- un·com·pact·ed adjective
- well-com·pact·ed adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of compact1
Origin of compact2
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
For comparison, a Tesla Model Y compact crossover has a 75 kWh battery pack.
CounterCurrentAbout as sprawling and diverse a show as the compact Gallery B can contain, “CounterCurrent” encompasses painting, sculpture, drawing and photography as well as decorative crafts.
On the other hand, electric chippers are compact and relatively quiet, less expensive than gas-powered ones, and easy to use.
It's the company's compact crossover, built on its new Skyactiv-Vehicle architecture, which it shares with the Mazda 3 sedan and hatchback.
The Omega is super compact, allowing it to fit in small spaces with ease, and its design aims to expose your ingredients to as little oxygen as possible during the process to cut down on oxidation and potential changes in flavor.
I notice he moves at a slightly slower pace than everyone else, and keeps his gestures compact.
Films are at their best when they can compact a story down to its essentials.
The next thing that happened, which was really great, was that the tapes became available on compact discs.
It will swiftly become clear that there is no room in this starry-eyed arrangement for a compact with Washington.
Two years later, when a deep-diving robot finally located the wreckage, the debris field was relatively compact—660 by 1,970 feet.
Sometimes dumb-bells, compact sheaves of fine needles, and irregular rhizome forms are seen (Fig. 40).
It is of an exceedingly hard, densely compact nature; from its hardness difficult to work, but susceptible of a very high polish.
A covenant is a mutual voluntary compact between two parties on given terms or conditions.
In length there was no alteration, but the design seems more condensed, more compact, yet slightly wider in the opening.
Veins of an inch or an inch and a half extracted from compact rock seldom have these intersections.
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