compact

Plural: compacts

Noun

• a small cosmetics case with a mirror; to be carried in a woman's purse
• a signed written agreement between two or more parties (nations) to perform some action
• a small and economical car
• 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

Verb Forms: compacted, compacting, compacts

• To press firmly together.
• have the property of being packable or of compacting easily
  • "This powder compacts easily"
• compress into a wad
• make more compact by or as if by pressing
• squeeze or press together
• To form an agreement or contract.
• To make more dense; to compress.
• To unite or connect firmly, as in a system.

Adjective

• Closely and neatly packed together; small.
• closely and firmly united or packed together
  • "compact soil"
  • "compact clusters of flowers"

Adjective Satellite

• having a short and solid form or stature
  • "a wrestler of compact build"
• briefly giving the gist of something
  • "a compact style is brief and pithy"

Adj

• 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.
• 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.
• Of a topological space:
• Compact in the above sense and moreover Hausdorff.
• Joined or held together; leagued; confederated.
• Composed or made; with of.

Examples

• a compact discourse
• a compact laptop computer
• A compact rack of tiles often suggests limited word-building options.
• She tried to compact the unused tiles in her mind, hoping for inspiration.

Synonyms

bundle, compact car, compendious, compress, concordat, constrict, contract, covenant, heavyset, pack, pack together, powder compact, press, squeeze, stocky, succinct, summary, thick, thickset, wad, agreement, close, compact, concentrated, condense, crowded, dense, pact, quasi-compact, serried, solid, tight, treaty

Antonyms

decompress, loose, diffuse, noncompact, spaced out, spread out, uncompact

Anagrams of compact