compact
Pronunciation: /ˈkɒmˌpækt/
The English word “compact” has 15 meanings listed here.
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
adjective
- Agreed, contracted.
- Closely packed or densely constituted; having much material in a small volume.
- Having all necessary features fitting neatly into a small space.
- Brief and pithy; not verbose.
- 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.
- Joined or held together; leagued; confederated.
- Composed or made; with of.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin compactum (“agreement”).
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