ALL meanings of compact
com·pact
C c - 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
- verb compact To compact something means to press it so that it becomes more solid. 3
- countable noun compact A compact is a small, flat case that contains face powder and a mirror. 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
- verb compact to pack or join closely together; compress; condense 3
- verb compact to create or form by pressing together 3
- verb compact to compress (a metal powder) to form a stable product suitable for sintering 3
- noun compact a small flat case containing a mirror, face powder, etc, designed to be carried in a woman's handbag 3
- noun compact a comparatively small and economical car 3
- noun compact a mass of metal prepared for sintering by cold-pressing a metal powder 3
- noun compact a tabloid-sized version of a newspaper that has traditionally been published in broadsheet form 3
- noun compact an official contract or agreement 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
- verb transitive compact to pack or join firmly together 3
- verb transitive compact to make by joining or putting together 3
- verb transitive compact to make more dense; compress; condense 3
- noun compact a small cosmetic case, usually containing face powder and mirror 3
- noun compact a compact automobile 3
- noun compact an agreement between two or more individuals, states, etc.; covenant 3
- noun compact A compact is a porous solid that is made by pressing a powder. 3
- noun Definition of compact in Technology 1. (theory) (Or "finite", "isolated") In domain theory, an element d of a cpo D is compact if and only if, for any chain S, a subset of D, d <= lub S => there exists s in S such that d <= s. I.e. you always reach d (or better) after a finite number of steps up the chain. ("<=" is written in LaTeX as \sqsubseteq). 2. (jargon) Of a design, describes the valuable property that it can all be apprehended at once in one's head. This generally means the thing created from the design can be used with greater facility and fewer errors than an equivalent tool that is not compact. Compactness does not imply triviality or lack of power; for example, C is compact and Fortran is not, but C is more powerful than Fortran. Designs become non-compact through accreting features and cruft that don't merge cleanly into the overall design scheme (thus, some fans of Classic C maintain that ANSI C is no longer compact). 1
- adjective compact object: small 1
- adjective compact physique: firm, solid 1
- adjective compact soil, etc.: densely packed 1
- transitive verb compact pack densely 1
- noun compact small make-up case 1
- noun compact Closely and neatly packed together ; dense. 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
- verb with object compact to join or pack closely together; consolidate; condense. 1
- verb with object compact to make firm or stable. 1
- verb with object compact to form or make by close union or conjunction; make up or compose. 1