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      compact
      noun
      An agreement or contract.
      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.
      An automobile that is larger than a subcompact but smaller than an intermediate.
      A broadsheet newspaper published in the size of a tabloid but keeping its non-sensational style.
      verb
      (intransitive) To form an agreement or contract.
      (transitive) To make more dense; to compress.
      To unite or connect firmly, as in a system.
      adjective
      Closely packed or densely constituted; having much material in a small volume.
      (of prose) Brief and pithy; not verbose.
      Having all necessary features fitting neatly into a small space.
      (topology, not comparable) Of a topological space:
      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.
      Compact in the above sense and moreover Hausdorff.
      (archaic) Agreed, contracted.
      (obsolete) Joined or held together; leagued; confederated.
      (obsolete) Composed or made; with of.
      Roots
      pango-pact · Latin · fasten, fix
      Synonyms for compact
      serriedadjsubminiaturecompendiousadjthicksetadjcompressvcovenantnthickadjsuccinctadjsqueezen
      Words related to compact
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