Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word COMPACT

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Definitions of COMPACT

1. An agreement or contract.
2. Closely packed, i.e. packing much in a small space.
3. Having all necessary features fitting neatly into a small space.
4. Brief; close; pithy; not diffuse; not verbose.
5. 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.
6. A broadsheet newspaper published in the size of a tabloid but keeping its non-sensational style.
7. To unite or connect firmly, as in a system.
8. An automobile that is larger than a subcompact but smaller than an intermediate.
9. (intransitive) To form an agreement or contract.
10. (topology, uncomparable, of a set in a topological space) Such that every open cover of the given set has a finite subcover. In a Euclidean space this is equivalent to a Closed and bounded set.
11. (obsolete) Joined or held together; leagued; confederated.
12. (obsolete) Composed or made; with of.
13. (transitive) To make more dense; to compress.

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Examples of Using COMPACT in a Sentence

• The Eddington limit, the natural limit to the luminosity of stars, or the radiation generated by accretion onto a compact object, is named in his honour.
• Compact Disc Digital Audio (CD-DA), a CD that contains PCM encoded digital audio in the original "Red Book" CD-DA format.
• Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity predicts that a sufficiently compact mass can deform spacetime to form a black hole.
• One such generalization is that a topological space is sequentially compact if every infinite sequence of points sampled from the space has an infinite subsequence that converges to some point of the space.
• 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.
• Most modern carbines are rifles that are compact versions of a longer rifle or are rifles chambered for less powerful cartridges.
• In mathematics, in general topology, compactification is the process or result of making a topological space into a compact space.
• It is a special kind of phonation in which the arytenoid cartilages in the larynx are drawn together; as a result, the vocal folds are compressed rather tightly, becoming relatively slack and compact.
• Decade is a compilation album by Canadian–American musician Neil Young, originally released in 1977 as a triple album and later issued on two compact discs.
• It can contain anywhere from tens of thousands to many millions of member stars, all orbiting in a stable, compact formation.
• It uses a similar modular design to the Heckler & Koch G3, and has over 100 variants and clones, including selective fire, semi-automatic, suppressed, compact, and even marksman variants.
• The language has a few extinct relatives which—along with the Jeju language (Jejuan) of Jeju Island and Korean itself—form the compact Koreanic language family.
• The Marshallese census figures exclude Marshall Islanders who have relocated elsewhere; the Compact of Free Association allows them to freely relocate to the United States and obtain work there.
• MusicBrainz was founded in response to the restrictions placed on the Compact Disc Database (CDDB), a database for software applications to look up audio CD information on the Internet.
• The Compact Disc-Interactive (CD-I, later CD-i) is a digital optical disc data storage format as well as a hardware platform, co-developed and marketed by Dutch company Philips and Japanese company Sony.
• It occurs when using a photographic flash that is very close to the camera lens (as with most compact cameras) in ambient low light.
• Rose plants range in size from compact, miniature roses to climbers that can reach seven meters in height.
• This electronics company, known for creating products such as the transistor radio TR-55, the home video tape recorder CV-2000, the portable audio player Walkman, and the compact disc player CDP-101, embarked on diverse business ventures.
• Short Payment Descriptor, a compact textual data format (a MIME/file type) for an easy exchange of a payment information, using smart phones or NFC devices; a standard for QR code payments.
• sed ("stream editor") is a Unix utility that parses and transforms text, using a simple, compact programming language.

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