compact

• Noun:
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒmˌpækt/
  • (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑmˌpækt/
• Adjective:
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /kəmˈpækt/
  • (US) IPA^(key): /kəmˈpækt/, /ˈkɑmˌpækt/
• Verb:
  • (US, UK) IPA^(key): /kəmˈpækt/

From Latin compactum (“agreement”).

compact (plural compacts)

1. An agreement or contract.

• agreement, contract, pact, treaty

From Middle French, from Latin compāctus, perfect passive participle of compingō (“join together”), from com- (“together”) + pangō (“fasten”), from Proto-Indo-European *pag- (“to fasten”).

compact (comparative more compact, superlative most compact)

1. Closely packed, i.e. packing much in a small space.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Isaac Newton

     glass, crystal, gems, and other compact bodies

2. Having all necessary features fitting neatly into a small space.

   a compact laptop computer

3. (mathematics, not comparable, of a set in an Euclidean space) Closed and bounded.

   A set S of real numbers is called compact if every sequence in S has a subsequence that converges to an element again contained in S.

4. (topology, not comparable, of a set) Such that every open cover of the given set has a finite subcover.
5. Brief; close; pithy; not diffuse; not verbose.

   a compact discourse

6. (obsolete) Joined or held together; leagued; confederated.
   • (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare

     compact with her that's gone

   • (Can we date this quote?) Peacham

     a pipe of seven reeds, compact with wax together

7. (obsolete) Composed or made; with of.
   • (Can we date this quote?) John Milton

     A wandering fire, / Compact of unctuous vapour.

• (closely packed): concentrated, crowded, dense, serried, solid, thick, tight; see also Thesaurus:compact

• ultracompact

• compact disc
• locally compact

Vintage black enamel compact, c. 1960s

compact (plural compacts)

1. A small, slim folding case, often featuring a mirror, powder and a powderpuff; that fits into a woman's purse or handbag, or that slips into one's pocket.
2. A broadsheet newspaper published in the size of a tabloid but keeping its non-sensational style.
   • 2012, BBC News: Dundee Courier makes move to compact :

     The Dundee Courier has announced the newspaper will be relaunching as a compact later this week. Editor Richard Neville said a "brighter, bolder" paper would appear from Saturday, shrunk from broadsheet to tabloid size.

compact (third-person singular simple present compacts, present participle compacting, simple past and past participle compacted)

1. (transitive) To make more dense; to compress.
   • 2014 August 24, Jeff Howell, “Home improvements: gravel paths and cutting heating bills [print version: Cold comfort in technology, 23 August 2014, p. P5]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Property)‎:

     You need to excavate and remove the topsoil, line the subsoil with a geotextile, then lay and compact hardcore.

2. To unite or connect firmly, as in a system.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Bible, Eph. iv. 16

     The whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth.

• (make more dense): compress, condense; see also Thesaurus:compress

• Compact (cosmetics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• accompt

• Audio

  (file)

compact (comparative compacter, superlative compactst)

1. compact (closely packed), dense
2. compact (having all necessary features fitting neatly into a small space)

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.pakt/

• Audio

  (file)

compact (feminine singular compacte, masculine plural compacts, feminine plural compactes)

1. compact (closely packed), dense
2. compact (having all necessary features fitting neatly into a small space)

compact m (plural compacts)

1. compact disc
2. music center (US), music centre (UK)
3. compact camera

• (compact disc): Compact Disc, disque compact

• “compact” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).