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Compact

Definition: Compact

Compact

Adjective

1. Closely and firmly united or packed together; "compact soil"; "compact clusters of flowers".

2. Closely crowded together; "a compact shopping center"; "a dense population"; "thick crowds".

3. Heavy and compact in form or stature; "a wrestler of compact build"; "he was tall and heavyset"; "stocky legs"; "a thick middle-aged man"; "a thickset young man".

4. Briefly giving the gist of something; "a short and compendious book"; "a compact style is brief and pithy"; "succinct comparisons"; "a summary formulation of a wide-ranging subject".

Noun

1. A small cosmetics case with a mirror; to be carried in a woman's purse.

2. A signed written agreement between two or more parties (nations) to perform some action.

3. A small and economical car.

Verb

1. Compress into a wad; "wad paper into the box".

2. Make more compact by or as if by pressing; "compress the data".

3. Squeeze or press together; "she compressed her lips".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "compact" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Compact

DomainDefinition

Computing

Compact adj. Of a design, describes the valuable property that it can all be apprehended at once in one's head. This generally means the thing created from the design can be used with greater facility and fewer errors than an equivalent tool that is not compact. Compactness does not imply triviality or lack of power; for example, C is compact and FORTRAN is not, but C is more powerful than FORTRAN. Designs become non-compact through accreting features and cruft that don't merge cleanly into the overall design scheme (thus, some fans of Classic C maintain that ANSI C is no longer compact). Source: Jargon File.

Energy

A group of two or more States formed to dispose of low-level radioactive waste on a regional basis. Forty-two States have formed nine compacts. (references)

Fine Arts

The cadmium sulphide cell is particularly --, usually even smaller than a barrier layer cell, and is thus suitable for building into cameras. Source: European Union. (references)

Nuclear Energy & Physics

A body produced by the compression of metallic or non-metallic powders in a die. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Compact space

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

In mathematics, a compact space is a space that resembles a closed and bounded subset of Euclidean space Rn in that it is "small" in a certain sense and "contains all its limit points". The modern general definition calls a topological space compact if every open cover of it has a finite subcover. That is, any collection of open sets whose union is the whole space has a finite subcollection whose union is still the whole space. Some authors use the term 'quasicompact' instead and reserve the term 'compact' for compact Hausdorff spaces, but Wikipedia follows the usual current practice of allowing compact spaces to be non-Hausdorff.

Generally equivalent definitions of compact sets

An equivalent definition of compact spaces, sometimes useful, is based on the finite intersection property. This definition says that X is compact if and only if for every collection of closed sets which has the finite intersection property, the intersection over this collection is also nonempty. In other words, if all finite subsets of a collection of closed sets have nonempty intersection, so must the entire collection. For example, (0,1] is not compact, since the sequence (0,1/n] of closed sets (in (0,1]) is nested, and so clearly has the finite intersection property, but has empty intersection. This definition is used in some proofs of Tychonoff's theorem and the uncountability of the real numbers.

Equivalent definitions of a compact set in Rn

For any subset of Euclidean space Rn, the following three conditions are equivalent:

In other spaces, these conditions may or may not be equivalent, depending on the properties of the space.

Examples of compact spaces

Theorems

Some theorems related to compactness (see the Topology Glossary for the definitions):

Other forms of compactness

There are a number of topological properties which are equivalent to compactness in metric spaces, but are inequivalent in general topological spaces. These include the following.

While all these conditions are equivalent for metric spaces, in general we have the following implications:

Compact spaces are countably compact. Sequentially compact spaces are countably compact. Countably compact spaces are pseudocompact and weakly countably compact.

Another related notion that is usually strictly weaker than compactness is local compactness.

Some history of the term compact

It has been recognized for a long time that a property like compactness was needed to prove many useful results. At one time, when primarily metric spaces were studied, compact was taken to mean the weaker sequentially compact, that every sequence has a convergent subsequence. The definition based on open coverings has surpassed it by allowing many useful results that could be proven about metric spaces using the old definition to be proven in general.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Compact space."

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Compact

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

COMPACT

EnglishCompatible algebraic compiler and translatorComputing
COSEnglishCompact Operating SystemComputing

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: Compact

Synonyms: compendious (adj), dense (adj), heavyset (adj), stocky (adj), succinct (adj), summary (adj), thick (adj), thickset (adj), compact car (n), concordat (n), covenant (n), powder compact (n), bundle (v), compress (v), constrict (v), contract (v), pack (v), pack together (v), press (v), squeeze (v), wad (v). (additional references)
Antonym: loose (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Compact

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Coherence

United, unseparated, unsessile, inseparable, inextricable, infrangible; compact; (dense).

Compact

Noun: compact, contract, agreement, bargain; affidation; pact, paction; bond, covenant, indenture; bundobast, deal.

Conciseness

Adjective: concise, brief, short, terse,close; to the point, exact; neat, compact; compressed, condensed, pointed; laconic, curt, pithy, trenchant, summary; pregnant; compendious; (compendium); succinct; elliptical, epigrammatic, quaint, crisp; sententious.

Contraction

Adjective: contracting; Verb: astringent; shrunk, contracted; Verb: strangulated, tabid, wizened, stunted; waning; Verb: neap, compact.

Density

Adjective: dense, solid; solidified. Verb: caseous; pukka; coherent, cohesive; compact, close, serried, thickset; substantial, massive, lumpish; impenetrable, impermeable, nonporous, imporous; incompressible; constipated; concrete. (hard); knotted, knotty; gnarled; crystalline, crystallizable; thick, grumous, stuffy.

Junction

Adjective: joined; Verb: joint; conjoint, conjunct; corporate, compact; hand in hand.

Record

Compact disk; floppy disk, diskette; hard disk, Winchester disk; read-only memory, ROM; write once read mostly memory, WORM.

Security

Muniment, instrument; deed, deed poll; assurance, indenture; charter; (compact); charter poll; paper, parchment, settlement, will, testament, last will and testament, codicil.

Shortness

Adjective: short, brief, curt; compendious, compact; stubby, scrimp; shorn, stubbed; stumpy, thickset, pug; chunky, decurtate; retrousse; stocky; squab, squabby; squat, dumpy; little; curtailed of its fair proportions; short by; oblate; concise; summary.

Undertaking

Noun: undertaking; compact; adventure, venture; engagement; (promise); enterprise, emprise; pilgrimage; matter in hand; (business ); move; first move; (beginning).

Unity

Nseverable, indiscerptible; compact, indivisible, atomic, irresolvable.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Compact

English words defined with "compact": audio compact disccompact disc read-only memory, compact disc recordable, compact disc write-once. (references)
Specialty definitions using "compact": Compact COBOL, Compact Disc interactive, Compact Disc Read-Write, Compact Disc Rewritable, Compact Disks, compact strip productionMultiMedia Compact DiscNortheast Interstate Dairy CompactSouthern Dairy Compact. (references)
Etymologies containing "compact": Spissated. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Compact" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Dutch (compact), French (compact, compactly, dense), Romanian (close, compact, compactly, dense, densely, firm, indiscrete, massive, serried, solid, stiff, tight).

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Modern Usage: Compact

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Spike is strong and mysterious and sort of compact but well-muscled (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

Movie/TV Titles

Compact (1962)

Their Compact (1917)

The Compact (1912)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Compact

DomainTitle

References

  • Compact Metal Industries Limited: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • The 2001 Report on Compact Discs: World Market Segmentation by City (reference)

  • The 2001 Long-Run Global Growth Prospects for Compact Discs: A Physioeconomic Perspective (reference)

  • The 2000-2005 Outlook for Compact Discs in Asia (reference)

  • The 2003-2008 World Outlook for Compact Discs (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Living Language French: For Beginners or Those Who Want a Thorough Review: Complete Course (Living Language Complete Courses. Compact Disc Edition) [ABRIDGED] (reference)

  • NIV Student Bible Compact Edition (reference)

  • The Bible on Compact Disc NT NLT (reference)

  • The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

  

High Tech

  

Consumer Goods

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Compact

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Photo Album: Compact

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Blood smear showing compact old trophozoite of Plasmodium malariae. Erythrocytes, protozoon, parasite. Credit: CDC.

This trophozoite is contained within a normal sized RBC. The compact cytoplasm contains a large quantity of chromatin, often producing a band formation. Towards the end of the trophozoite stage, the parasite replicates its DNA. Credit: CDC.

This troupe of four galaxies, known as Hickson Compact Group 87 (HCG 87), is performing an ... Credit: NASA.

Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve A Harbor Seal, Phoca vitulina, is a small phocid with a stubby, compact body and short limbs. Colors range from silver-gray to tan and all are spotted. They occur in almost all nearshore environments from Baja,California to the Bering Sea. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Figure 53. Berget sounding machine, designed by Professor Alphonse Berget of the Oceanographic Institute of Paris. Prince Albert I of Monaco presented this type of machine to the French Academy of Sciences in 1911. The machine was designed for use in depths from 0 to 2500 meters. This machine was unique for its compact size and strength. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Figure 52. Knudsen bottom sampler designed by Martin Knudsen, a professor at the University of Copenhagen. This machine was meant to improve the sampling ability of the Petersen sampling device in more compact sediment layers. It was tested in the Oresund between Denmark and Sweden off the DANA in 11 meters of water in 1926. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

An F-16 flying in support of Operation Northern Watch. The F-16 Fighting Falcon is a compact, multirole fighter aircraft. It is highly maneuverable and has proven itself in air-to-air combat and air-to-surface attack. It provides a relatively low-cost, h.

Compact orange pepper plants bear upright, pungent fruit. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by John Stommel..

The Mayflower Compact 1620 / J.L.G. Ferris. Credit: Library of Congress.

Signing of the compact in the cabin of the Mayflower. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Compact
 

"Bunch of compact discs" by Feike Kloostra
Commentary: "A bunch of alternetive cd's."
"1 compact disk" by João Estêvão A. De Freitas
Commentary: "1 compact disk in my secretary."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Sounds Captioned with "Compact".

PlayCaption
Skip; skipping; scratched; compact disc; scratch .
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Compact

AuthorQuotation

Henrik Ibsen

The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority. Yes, the damned, compact, liberal majority.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The highest compact we can make with our fellow is --''Let there be truth between us two forevermore.''

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Compact

AuthorDateQuotation

John Locke

1690

Nothing can make any man so, but his actually entering into it by positive engagement, and express promise and compact. (Second Treatise of Government)

US Constitution

1791

Clause 3: No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay. (reference)

Communist Manifesto

1848

If anywhere they unite to form more compact bodies, this is not yet the consequence of their own active union, but of the union of the bourgeoisie, which class, in order to attain its own political ends, is compelled to set the whole proletariat in motion, and is moreover yet, for a time, able to do so. (reference)

Winston S. Churchill

1946

The power of the State is exercised without restraint, either by dictators or by compact oligarchies operating through a privileged party and a political police. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Compact

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

It was a resisting, massive, solid, compact, almost impenetrable block of people, heaped together and talking in whispers

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

He saw her serious alluring eyes watching him from among the audience and their image at once swept away his scruples, leaving his will compact.

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

The men were in a compact group now.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Compact

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Some bacteria can form dense hardy spores, which means they enter a compact and inert hibernation state. (references)

Business

To evaluate the use of smaller compact equipment for potable water distribution in small towns. (references)

As computers become more compact, more powerful, and more intelligent, so do the memory storage devices. (references)

Fiat introduced the Multipla Van, which is even shorter than a usual European compact car, but seats three people in the front. (references)

Civil Liberties

Laos

However, in practice most foreign films and music are easily available in video and compact disc format. (references)

Malaysia

In August the Government announced that it would increase efforts to block the production, distribution, and sales of video compact discs (VCDs), especially those with pornographic and political content. (references)

Kuwait

A private company, the Book House Company Ltd., is permitted to import significant amounts of Bibles and other Christian religious material--including videotapes and compact discs--for use solely among the congregations of the country's recognized churches. (references)

Discrimination

Fiji

A compact included in the Constitution specifically provides for affirmative action and "social justice" programs to secure effective equality of access to opportunities, amenities, and services for ethnic Fijians and Rotumans and for all disadvantaged citizens and groups. (references)

Economic History

Netherlands

The Randstad is compact, homogeneous, and easily accessible. (references)

Micronesia

Negotiations on extending the Compact began in November 1999. (references)

Human Rights

Marshall Islands

One of the WUTIMI leaders, for example, has been named to the Compact Renegotiation Team. (references)

Political Economy

Marshall Islands

The Republic of the Marshall Islands is a self-governing nation under the Compact of Free Association with the United States. (references)

Marshall Islands

Under the Compact of Free Association, the United States is responsible for defense and national security, and the country has no external security force. (references)

Political Rights

Fiji

Included in the 1997 Constitution was a strengthened bill of rights and a compact among the country's citizens to protect their respective rights and interests; however, the Constitution acknowledged that the interests of indigenous Fijians remained paramount and could not be subordinated to the interests of other communities. (references)

Trade

Ukraine

In early 2001, the Cabinet of Ministers passed another resolution aimed at licensing the import of industrial-grade polycarbonate, the main raw material used to produce optical media compact discs. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Compact

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Rush Limbaugh

The bottom line of the study, which is published in Wednesday's issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, is that parents with a choice of vehicles should not use compact pickup trucks.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Speeches: Compact

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Thomas Jefferson

1801-1809Tripoli, the least considerable of the Barbary States, had come forward with demands unfounded either in right or in compact, and had permitted itself to denounce war on our failure to comply before a given day.

James Madison

1809-1817Trial by jury cannot be considered as a natural right, but a right resulting from the social compact which regulates the action of the community, but is as essential to secure the liberty of the people as any one of the pre-existent rights of nature.

John Quincy Adams

1825-1829The people of other nations, inhabitants of regions acquired not by conquest, but by compact, have been united with us in the participation of our rights and duties, of our burdens and blessings.

Bill Clinton

1993-2001So tonight, we must forge a new social compact to meet the challenges of this time.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Compact

"Compact" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 50.50% of the time. "Compact" is used about 1,197 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)50.5%60410,619
Adjective (general or positive)47.66%57011,057
Lexical Verb (infinitive)1.5%1882,615
Lexical Verb (base form)0.33%4175,879
                    Total100.00%1,197N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Compact

CountryName
Singapore

Compact Metal Industries Limited

 (more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expression: Compact

Expressions using "compact": audio compact disc be compact compact car compact COBOL compact disc compact Disc interactive compact disc player compact Disc Recordable compact Disc Rewritable compact disk compact disk player Compact Disks compact mass compact rime compact snow compact strip production form a compact mass low compact crouch man compact of suspicion multimedia Compact Disc powder compact. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "compact": compact-disc, compact-disk burner, compact-initiated.

Ending with "compact": non-compact.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Compact

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

compact flash

1,355

used compact tractor

104

compact flash card

897

sport compact car magazine

102

compact disc

863

256mb compact flash card

97

compact refrigerator

746

compact appliance

97

sport compact car

624

512mb compact flash

92

compact tractor

523

compact dishwasher

83

sport compact

316

compact computer

83

compact

298

compact flash gps

80

compact flash memory

233

compact freezer

70

compact flash memory card

153

sandisk compact flash

70

1gb compact flash

146

compact disk

68

compact flash 256

133

compact air conditioner

67

mayflower compact

129

compact digital camera

64

compact flash 256mb

128

mp3 player compact flash

63

lexar compact flash

126

compact binoculars

60

compact fluorescent

126

compact pci

58

compact car

125

128mb compact flash

58

compact flash reader

117

compact mirror

58

compact flash card reader

110

128 compact flash

51

512 compact flash

106

256 mb compact flash

50
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Modern Translation: Compact

Language Translations for "compact"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

kompak. (various references)

   

Albanian

  

veturë e vogël (doodlebug), shtyp (bruise, clench, crush, Dent, depress, die, grind, newspapers, oppress, organ, override, pestle, pound, press, print, push down, quash, quell, repress, run down, run over, scotch, squash, squeeze, stamp, step, strike off, suppress, swat, trample, trample down, triturate, type, tyrannize), ngjesh (clench, compress, gird on the sword, huddle, jam, jostle, masticate, mix, pack, ram down, squeeze, tamp), marrëveshje (accordance, agreement, arrangement, articles, bargain, bond, composition, concert, concord, concordance, concordat, concurrence, consonance, contract, convention, covenant, deal, dealings, entente, pact, settlement, stipulation, treaty, tune, undertaking), kuti pudre (puff box), kontratë (agreement, bond, contract, covenant, indenture, treaty), kompakt (compacted), i ngjeshur (close, compressed, concise, concisely, dense, impermeable, serried, stiff, succinct). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏ميثاق (agreement, convention, covenant, pact, treaty), ‏مكتنز, ‏ملتز (close), ‏موجز (abridged, brief, briefly, concise, digest, epitomized, laconic, outline, precis, short, summarized, summary), ‏محكم (airtight, coherent, fast, firm, hermetic, impermeable, impervious, precise, secure, solid, strong, tight, well knit), ‏متضام, ‏متراص (close, tight), ‏معاهدة (agreement, convention, pact, treaty), ‏مدمج (built in, consolidated), ‏سيارة صغيرة, ‏عقد (act, agreement, bead, cast, charter, complicate, conclude, congeal, contract, convene, convention, covenant, decade, deed, draw, embarrass, engagement, entangle, hitch, hold, indent, instrument, knitting, knot, lease, muckrake, muddy, pact, perplex, promise, ravel, vault, vaulting, writing), ‏إتفاقية (agreement, contract, convention, covenant), ‏إتفاق (accord, community, composition, concert, concord, concordance, deal, oneness, pact, promise, settlement, term, treaty, understanding, unity), ‏ركب (assemble, compose, construct, fabricate, frame, mount, prepare, put together, ride, rig up, set, set up, straddle, superimpose). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

съкратен (contracted, summary, truncate), стягам (accouter, accoutre, bind, brace, constrain, constrict, do up, gripe, hold in, hoop, impact, lace, lace up, lock, pack, pinch, preen, screw up, straiten, tense, tighten, trim, truss), стегнат (close-textured, concise, crisp, firm, natty, neat, rakish, sailorly, serried, sinewy, soldierlike, soldierly, spiffing, spiffy, taut, tidy, tight, tricksy, trig, trim, well groomed), сгъстявам (coagulate, compress, condense, evaporate, inspissate, set, squeeze, thicken), сбит (agglomerate, brief, compendious, concise, epigrammatic, firm, lapidary, open, serried, succinct, summary, terse, thick, tight), сбивам (firm), споразумение (accord, agreement, compromise, contract, convention, covenant, settlement, stipulation, understanding), спогодба (convention, reconcilement, reconciliation, stipulation), кратък (brief, concise, curt, horary, little, near, short, swift, transient, transitory), компактен (compacted, dense, indiscrete), опаковам плътно, малка лека кола, пудриера с огледалце, плътен (closely-knit, compacted, consistent, dense, fruity, open, orotund, resonant, rich, rotund, round, solid, sonorous, stiff, thick). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

协定. (various references)

   

Czech

  

smlouva (accord, bargain, bond, contract, covenant, pact, retainer, treaty), pudřenka (powder box, puff box), pevný (adamant, concrete, consistent, deep-seated, durable, energetic, fast, firm, fixed, good, hard set, hardwearing, heavy duty, immovable, ingrained, meaty, proof, resilient, resolute, secure, solid, sound, stable, steadfast, steady, stout, strong, sturdy, substantial, sure, unmoved, unswerving, unyielding, valid), koncizní (concise), kompaktní, hutný (concise, nervous, solid, terse), hustý (bushy, close, close-grained, dense, heavy, thick, turbid), dohoda (accommodation, accord, agreement, arrangement, bargain, concord, contract, deal, settlement, stipulation, treaty). (various references)

   

Danish

  

taet (confertus, crowded, squeezed), tæt (concentrated, dense, narrow, thick), sintret produkt, kompakteret, kompakt (confertus, crowded, squeezed). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

dicht (closed, concentrated, dense, shut, thick), compact. (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

kompakta. (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

پیمان (Accord, Act, Agreement, Avow, Compaction, Concord, Contract, Covenant, Faith, Hand, League, Oath, Pact, Promise, Testament, Treaty, Troth, Vow), متراکم (Aggregate, Cumulous, Dense, Voluminous), معاهده (Bond, Pact, Treaty), ریزبافتن , بهم پیوسته (Aggregate, Collective, Conjunct), بهم متصل کردن (Enjoin). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

tiivis (dense, tight, tightly woven, water-tight). (various references)

   

French

  

compact (compactly). (various references)

   

German

  

kompakt (compactly, solid, squat), puderdose (powder tin), fest (abiding, attached, banquet, buoyant, buoyantly, carnival, celebration, closely, consistent, constant, continual, continuous, crisp, definite, faithfully, fast, feast, festival, festivity, fete, fexed, firm, firmly, fix, fixated, fixed, gaiety, hard, heavy, immovable, ingrained, junket, lasting, moored, non-varying, party, permanent, permanently, proof, regular, robust, safely, secure, securely, set, settled, solid, solidly, sound, squarely, stable, steadfast, steadily, steady, stiff, stout, stoutly, strong, sturdy, sustained, tight, tighten, tightly, tough, unfaltering, unhesitating, unshrinking, unwavering, unwaveringly). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

συμπαγής (solid). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מוצק (cast, cast iron, firm, hard, massive, solid, substantial), לצופף (crowd, press), קומפקטי, דחיס (compressible), דחוס (compressed, compression, crowded, dense, pressed, thick, tight), גושי (massive, of the block). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

tömött (chock-a-block, concrete, congested, crowded, fat, packed, padded, serried, stuffed, thick, thick with), tömörített (compacted, upset), szerzõdést köt, szerzõdés (agreement, charter, concord, contract, indent, legal instrument, pact, treaty), szerződés (concord, covenant, engagement, obligation, pact, treaty), púdertartó (powder compact), púderdoboz (puff box, vanity case), megállapdás, kompakt, egyezség (accord, agreement, arrangement, covenant, deal, settlement), összetömörít (constipate, mass, to aggregate, to ball). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

tas kosmetik. (various references)

   

Italian

  

compatto (close, compactly, dense, hard, massive, serried, solid, thick). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

契約 (agreement, contract). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

こぢんまり , コンパクト , けいやく (agreement, contract). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

콤팩트. (various references)

   

Manx

  

kishtey poodyr, giare (abbreviated, abridged, abrupt, brief, brusque, concise, curt, laconic, short, summary, undersized, undersized of persons, undersized of things), cumir (brief, concise, tidy), cruinn (accurate, circular, circumstantial, consummate, detailed, exact, round, scrupulous, spherical, strict, unambigous). (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

kompakt disk (compact disc). (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

kompakto. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ompactcay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

compacto (close, compacted, concentrated, dense, massive, serried, solid, thick, well-knit, well-set). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

convenţie (agreement, convention, covenant, memorandum, understanding), condensat, condensa (compress, concentrate, condense), concis (brief, compendious, concise, curt, gnomic, laconic, laconically, lapidary, short, shortly, terse), compune (compose, compound, constitute, create, draw, form, frame, indite, Marshal, set, write), compact (close, compactly, dense, densely, firm, indiscrete, massive, serried, solid, stiff, tight), pudrierã (flap-jack, vanity bag, vanity case), lapidar (lapidary), gros (abundantly, big, blubber, bulk, bulky, coarse, densely, gross, highly, podgy, quod, stiff, stout, thick, voluminous), face compact, dens (Cloggy, close, dense, densely, gross, stiff, thick, tight), acord (accede, accession, accord, accordance, agree, agreement, arrangement, assent, cheer, chord, coincidence, compliance, composition, concert, concord, concordance, concurrence, conformity, congeniality, congruence, congruity, consent, consentaneity, consistency, contract, convention, correspondence, covenant, harmony, key, permit, solidarity, treaty, understanding, uniformity, union, unison, unity), învoialã (agreement, contract, covenant), îndesat (crowded, dumpy, heavy, squab, squat, stocky, stuffed, stumpy, thickset), înţelegere (accommodation, accord, agreement, apprehension, arrangement, compliance, composition, comprehension, comprehensiveness, concert, concord, concordat, connivance, convention, covenant, goodwill, grasp, grip, insight, intelligence, knowing, mindfulness, perception, prehension, realization, sympathy, understanding, unity). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

уплотнять соглашение компактный, уплотнять (obturate, shrink, squeeze, tighten), соглашение (accord, agreement, arrangement, concord, covenant, entente, stipulation, understanding, undertaking), сжатый (brief, cabined, compendious, concise, recapitulatory, short-winded, shrunken, succinct, tabloid, terse, tight), сплошной (continuous, entire, massive, sheeted), компактный (compacted, indiscrete), прессованный, прессованная пудра, плотный (burly, close, dense, hard, massive, solid, thick, tight, tough), договор (agreement, arrangement, concord, concordat, contract, convention, covenant, indenture, non-aggression pact, pact, treaty). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

zbiti, zbijen (compressed, dense, serried), puderska kutija, mali automobil (mini car), kompaktni, kompaktan. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

compacto (close, compactly). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

tät (close, dense, frequent, head, loaded, murky, proof, thick, tight, vanguard, well heeled, well to do), kompakt (concrete, dense). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yoğunlaştırmak (concentrate, condense, intensify, thicken), yoğun (busy, concentrated, crash, dense, gross, hectic, intense, intensive, peasoupy, rich, rush hour, stiff, thick, turbid), sözleşme (agreement, articles, charter, contract, contractual, covenant, engagement, indenture, oral contract, pact), sıkılaştırmak, sıkıştırmak (astringe, be urgent with smb., bear against, besiege, bombard, bottle up, clamp, clamp down, clinch, come down on, compress, constrict, crowd, crush, drive smb. to the wall, dun, force, grind, grip, heckle, hurry, hustle, impact, impress, incarcerate, jam, jam in, lean on, lean upon, oppress, pin, pin down, pinch, ply, ply with, press, press for, press smb. close, push, push smb. to the wall, rush, shut in, slip into, squeeze, straiten, stress, tighten, tuck, wedge, weigh), sıkı (clinging, close, close fitting, close-bodied, fast, firm, foursquare, gross, hard, iron, rigorous, searching, serried, Strait, strict, stringent, sure, tight), pudralık, kompakt, küçük araba (baby car, compact car, pony, runabout, runabout car, subcompact), kısa ve etkili, anlaşma (accord, agreement, alliance, arrangement, axis, bargain, composition, concert, concord, conspiracy, contract, covenant, deal, entente, hookup, pact, rapport, settlement, understanding), özlü (brief, capsule, concise, juicy, laconic, lapidary, loamy, lush, meaty, pithy, pulpy, racy, sappy, sententious, starchy, substantial, succinct, succulent, terse), öz (compendious, content, core, cream, distillate, distillation, elixir, entity, epitome, essence, essential oil, extract, extraction, full, genuine, gist, goodness, guts, heartbeat, kernel, marrow, matter, meat, medulla, nucleus, own, pith, pith and marrow, pulp, quick, quiddity, quintessence, self, soul, stuff, substance, substantiality, substratum, sum, whole). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

стискувати (clench, clip, compress, link, squeeze), стислий (compendious, concise, condensed, lapidary, pithy, succinct, tabloid, telegraphic, terse), ущільнювати (consolidate, firm, impact, obturate, pack, thicken), угода (accedence, agreement, covenant, do, operation, stipulation), щільний (air proof, dense, massive, sclerotic, thick, tight, turbid), компактний (compacted, dense), з'єднувати (adjoin, agglutinate, aggregate, amalgamate, articulate, associate, cement, commingle, compound, concatenate, conflate, conjoin, connect, couple, cumulate, glue, inosculate, interlock, joint, knit, leash, link, merge, piece together, tag, thwack, tie in, twin, unite), згуртовувати (weld), пудрениця, договір (agreement, concord, contract, convention, covenant, treaty). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

chặt, chứa đầy (heavy), sự thoả thuận hiệp ước, rắn chắc; chắc nịch chật ních, khế ước hộp phấn sáp bỏ túi, kết, hợp đồng (contract, policy), giao kèo (contract), đặc (consistent, crass, unmitigated), đầy (chock-full, full, instinct, replete, teemful, teeming). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

cryno (neat, tidy). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Compact

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

adstrictos, adstrictus, adstringo, collecta, collectae, collectam, collecti, collectis, collecto, collectos, collectum, collectus, compactus, confersam, confertis, conpactum, conventio, conventione, conventionem, conventiones, conventum, foedus, foedus, foederis. (various references)

Old French900-1400

solide. (various references)

Middle French1400-1600

pacte, serre. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Compact

Derivations

Words beginning with "compact": compacted, compacter, compacters, compactest, compactible, compacting, compaction, compactions, compactly, compactness, compactnesses, compactor, compactors, compacts. (additional references)

Words ending with "compact": subcompact, ultracompact. (additional references)

Words containing "compact": subcompacts. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Compact" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: campact, Cempaka, cincpac, Compacta, compactum, Comparco, Compc, compent, conbac, Copack, copmact, cvompact, Cwmparc. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Compact"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "compact" (pronounced kÄ"mpakt or kumpa"kt)
7k Ä" m p a k tsubcompact.
5-m p a" k timpact.
4-p a" k tpacked, pact, repacked, unpacked.
3-a" k tabstract, act, attacked, attract, backed, blacked, counterattacked, cracked, detract, diffract, distract, enact, exact, extract, fact, hacked, inexact, intact, interact, jacked, lacked, overreact, protract, racked, react, redact, reenact, retract, sacked, slacked, smacked, stacked, subtract, tacked, tact, tracked, tract, transact, whacked, wracked.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Compact

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-c-m-o-p-t"

-2 letters: campo, coact, coapt, compt.

-3 letters: atom, atop, camp, capo, coat, coca, coma, comp, moat, pact, taco, tamp.

-4 letters: act, amp, apt, cam, cap, cat, cop, cot, mac, map, mat, moa, moc, mop, mot, oat, oca, opt, pac, pam, pat, pom, pot, tam, tao, tap, tom, top.

-5 letters: am, at, ma, mo, om, op, pa.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-c-m-o-p-t"
 

+1 letter: compacts.

 

+2 letters: apomictic, compacted, compacter, compactly, compactor.

 

+3 letters: compacters, compactest, compacting, compaction, compactors, complacent, complicate, subcompact.

 

+4 letters: accompanist, caprolactam, compactible, compactions, compactness, complicated, complicates, cryptogamic, cytoplasmic, ectoplasmic, macrophytic, subcompacts.

 

+5 letters: accompanists, amphictyonic, apochromatic, caprolactams, compatriotic, complacently, complicating, complication, panchromatic, ultracompact, uncomplacent.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Images: Digital Art
9. Sounds
10. Quotations: Familiar
11. Quotations: Historic
12. Quotations: Fiction
13. Quotations: Non-fiction
14. Quotations: Spoken
15. Quotations: Speeches
16. Usage Frequency
17. Names: Company Usage
18. Expressions
19. Expressions: Internet
20. Translations: Modern
21. Translations: Ancient
22. Abbreviations
23. Acronyms
24. Derivations
25. Rhymes
26. Anagrams
27. Bibliography


  

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