compact
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Latin compactum (“agreement”).
NounEdit
compact (plural compacts)
- An agreement or contract.
SynonymsEdit
TranslationsEdit
agreement or contract
Etymology 2Edit
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”).
AdjectiveEdit
compact (comparative more compact, superlative most compact)
- Closely packed, i.e. packing much in a small space.
- (Can we date this quote by Isaac Newton and provide title, author's full name, and other details?)
- glass, crystal, gems, and other compact bodies
- (Can we date this quote by Isaac Newton and provide title, author's full name, and other details?)
- Having all necessary features fitting neatly into a small space.
- a compact laptop computer
- (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.
- (topology, not comparable, of a set) Such that every open cover of the given set has a finite subcover.
- Brief; close; pithy; not diffuse; not verbose.
- a compact discourse
- (obsolete) Joined or held together; leagued; confederated.
- c. 1603–1604, William Shakespeare, “Measvre for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene i]:
- compact with her that's gone
- (Can we date this quote by Peacham and provide title, author's full name, and other details?)
- a pipe of seven reeds, compact with wax together
- (obsolete) Composed or made; with of.
- (Can we date this quote by John Milton and provide title, author's full name, and other details?)
- A wandering fire, / Compact of unctuous vapour.
- (Can we date this quote by John Milton and provide title, author's full name, and other details?)
SynonymsEdit
- (closely packed): concentrated, crowded, dense, serried, solid, thick, tight; see also Thesaurus:compact
HyponymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
closely packed
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having all necessary features fitting neatly into a small space
topological sense
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NounEdit
compact (plural compacts)
- 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.
- 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 [1]:
- 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.
- 2012, BBC News: Dundee Courier makes move to compact [1]:
TranslationsEdit
small, slim folding case, often holding a mirror
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newspaper format
VerbEdit
compact (third-person singular simple present compacts, present participle compacting, simple past and past participle compacted)
- (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)[2]:
- You need to excavate and remove the topsoil, line the subsoil with a geotextile, then lay and compact hardcore.
- 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.
- (Can we date this quote?) Bible, Eph. iv. 16
SynonymsEdit
- (make more dense): compress, condense; see also Thesaurus:compress
TranslationsEdit
make more dense
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See alsoEdit
Compact (cosmetics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
AnagramsEdit
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AdjectiveEdit
compact (comparative compacter, superlative compactst)
- compact (closely packed), dense
- compact (having all necessary features fitting neatly into a small space)
InflectionEdit
| Inflection of compact | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | compact | |||
| inflected | compacte | |||
| comparative | compacter | |||
| positive | comparative | superlative | ||
| predicative/adverbial | compact | compacter | het compactst het compactste | |
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | compacte | compactere | compactste |
| n. sing. | compact | compacter | compactste | |
| plural | compacte | compactere | compactste | |
| definite | compacte | compactere | compactste | |
| partitive | compacts | compacters | — | |
FrenchEdit
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
compact (feminine singular compacte, masculine plural compacts, feminine plural compactes)
- compact (closely packed), dense
- compact (having all necessary features fitting neatly into a small space)
NounEdit
compact m (plural compacts)
- compact disc
- music center (US), music centre (UK)
- compact camera
SynonymsEdit
- (compact disc): Compact Disc, disque compact
Further readingEdit
- “compact” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).