English Explanatory Dictionary

compact

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An agreement or contract.
verb
  1. To form an agreement or contract.
adj
  1. Agreed, contracted.
adj
  1. Closely packed or densely constituted; having much material in a small volume.
  2. Having all necessary features fitting neatly into a small space.
  3. Brief and pithy; not verbose.
  4. Of a topological space:
  5. 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.
  6. Compact in the above sense and moreover Hausdorff.
  7. Joined or held together; leagued; confederated.
  8. Composed or made; with of.
noun
  1. 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.
  2. An automobile that is larger than a subcompact but smaller than an intermediate.
  3. A broadsheet newspaper published in the size of a tabloid but keeping its non-sensational style.
verb
  1. To make more dense; to compress.
  2. To unite or connect firmly, as in a system.

Pronunciation

/ˈkɒmˌpækt/ /ˈkɑmˌpækt/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-compact (noun).wav /kəmˈpækt/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-compact (verb).wav LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-compact (adjective).wav

Word forms

compact compacts compacting compacted more compact compacter most compact compactest

Etymology

From Latin compactum (“agreement”).

Synonyms

agreement contract pact treaty close compact crowded dense solid thick tight concentrated serried quasi-compact condense compress

Antonyms

loose diffuse noncompact uncompact spaced out spread out

Derived words

interstate compact social compact cocompact compact audio cassette compact camera compact cassette compact disc compact disk compact executive car compact fluorescent lamp compactification compactify compactin compactization compactly compact neighbourhood compactness compacton compact space compact star decompact Hickson compact group hypercompact incompact locally compact locally compact group massive compact halo object metacompact noncompact paracompact pseudocompact quasi-compact semicompact supercompact σ-compact precompact uncompact minicompact compactable compactible recompact

Translations

Chinese Mandarin: 緊的 /紧的 Chinese Mandarin: 緊致的 /紧致的 Dutch: compact Finnish: kompakti French: compact Galician: compacto German: kompakt Greek: συμπεπιεσμένος Hebrew: קומפקטי Hungarian: kompakt Icelandic: þjappað Kazakh: ықшам Polish: zwarty Polish: zwarta Portuguese: compacto Romanian: compact Swedish: kompakt Turkish: tıkız
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