ALL meanings of compactness
com·pact
C c - noun compactness The state of being compact. 1
- adjective compactness joined or packed together; closely and firmly united; dense; solid: compact soil. 1
- adjective compactness arranged within a relatively small space: a compact shopping center; a compact kitchen. 1
- adjective compactness designed to be small in size and economical in operation. 1
- adjective compactness solidly or firmly built: the compact body of a lightweight wrestler. 1
- adjective compactness expressed concisely; pithy; terse; not diffuse: a compact review of the week's news. 1
- adjective compactness composed or made (usually followed by of): a book compact of form and content. 1
- adjective compactness 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 compactness to join or pack closely together; consolidate; condense. 1
- verb with object compactness to make firm or stable. 1
- verb with object compactness to form or make by close union or conjunction; make up or compose. 1
- verb with object compactness Metallurgy. to compress (metallic or metallic and nonmetallic powders) in a die to be sintered. 1
- verb with object compactness to crush into compact form for convenient disposal or for storage until disposal: to compact rubbish. 1
- noun compactness a small case containing a mirror, face powder, a puff, and sometimes rouge. 1
- noun compactness 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). 1
- noun compactness Metallurgy. (in powder metallurgy) an object to be sintered formed of metallic or of metallic and nonmetallic powders compressed in a die. 1