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Definition of COMPACT

Compact
Compact Com*pact", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Compacted; p. pr. & vb. n. Compacting.] 1. To thrust, drive, or press closely together; to join firmly; to consolidate; to make close; -- as the parts which compose a body. Now the bright sun compacts the precious stone. --Blackstone. 2. To unite or connect firmly, as in a system. The whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth. --Eph. iv. 16.
Compact
Compact Com"pact, n. [L. compactum, fr. compacisci, p. p. compactus, to make an agreement with; com- + pacisci to make an agreement. See Pact.] An agreement between parties; a covenant or contract. The law of nations depends on mutual compacts, treaties, leagues, etc. --Blackstone. Wedlock is described as the indissoluble compact. --Macaulay. The federal constitution has been styled a compact between the States by which it was ratified. --Wharton. Syn: See Covenant.

Meaning of COMPACT from wikipedia

- Look up compact in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Compact as used in politics may refer broadly to a pact or treaty; in more specific cases it may refer...
- The compact disc (CD) is a digital optical disc data storage format that was co-developed by Philips and Sony to store and play digital audio recordings...
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- topology, compactness is a property that s****s to generalize the notion of a closed and bounded subset of Euclidean space. The idea is that a compact space...
- notions of compactness and sequential compactness are equivalent (if one ****umes countable choice). However, there exist sequentially compact topological...
- mathematics, the compact-open topology is a topology defined on the set of continuous maps between two topological spaces. The compact-open topology is...
- The compact city or city of short distances is an urban planning and urban design concept, which promotes relatively high residential density with mixed...
- space is called locally compact if, roughly speaking, each small portion of the space looks like a small portion of a compact space. More precisely, it...
- Blood compact (Spanish: Pacto de sangre; Tagalog: Sanduguan) was an ancient ritual in the Philippines intended to seal a friendship or treaty, or to validate...
- Compact car is a vehicle size class—predominantly used in North America—that sits between subcompact cars and mid-size cars. "Small family car" is a British...