compact adjective
com·pact
The adjective form of compact is compactible
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- adjective compact Compact things are small or take up very little space. You use this word when you think this is a good quality. 3
- adjective compact A compact person is small but strong. 3
- adjective compact A compact cassette, camera, or car is a small type of cassette, camera, or car. 3
- adjective compact closely packed together; dense 3
- adjective compact neatly fitted into a restricted space 3
- adjective compact concise; brief 3
- adjective compact well constructed; solid; firm 3
- adjective compact composed or made up (of) 3
- adjective compact denoting a tabloid-sized version of a newspaper that has traditionally been published in broadsheet form 3
- adjective compact (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 3
- adjective compact (of a car) small and economical 3
- adjective compact closely and firmly packed or put together; dense; solid 3
- adjective compact taking little space; arranged neatly in a small space 3
- adjective compact not diffuse or wordy; terse 3
- adjective compact made up or composed (of) 3
- adjective compact designating or of a relatively small, light, economical model of automobile 3
- adjective compact object: small 1
- adjective compact physique: firm, solid 1
- adjective compact soil, etc.: densely packed 1
- adjective compact joined or packed together; closely and firmly united; dense; solid: compact soil. 1
- adjective compact arranged within a relatively small space: a compact shopping center; a compact kitchen. 1
- adjective compact designed to be small in size and economical in operation. 1
- adjective compact solidly or firmly built: the compact body of a lightweight wrestler. 1
- adjective compact expressed concisely; pithy; terse; not diffuse: a compact review of the week's news. 1
- adjective compact composed or made (usually followed by of): a book compact of form and content. 1
- adjective compact Also, bicompact. Mathematics. (of a set) having the property that in any collection of open sets whose union contains the given set there exists a finite number of open sets whose union contains the given set; having the property that every open cover has a finite subcover. 1
- adjective compact Having all necessary features fitting neatly into a small space. 0
- adjective compact (mathematics, not comparable, of a set in an Euclidean space) Closed and bounded. 0
- adjective compact (topology, not comparable, of a set) Such that every open cover of the given set has a finite subcover. 0
- adjective compact Brief; close; pithy; not diffuse; not verbose. 0
- adjective compact (Obsolete (No longer in use)) Joined or held together; leagued; confederated. 0
- adjective compact (Obsolete (No longer in use)) Composed or made; with of. 0
- adjective compact Closely packed, i.e. packing much in a small space. 0