Collins English-English Dictionary

compact

1. 1. adj closely packed together; dense

2. 2. adj neatly fitted into a restricted space

3. 3. adj concise; brief

4. 4. adj well constructed; solid; firm

5. 5. adj [foll by of] composed or made up (of)

6. 6. adj denoting a tabloid-sized version of a newspaper that has traditionally been published in broadsheet form

7. 7. adj [logic] (of a relation) having the property that for any pair of elements such that a is related to b, there is some element c such that a is related to c and c to b, as less than on the rational numbers

8. 8. adj [US and Canadian] (of a car) small and economical

9. 9. vt. [tr] to pack or join closely together; compress; condense

10. 10. vt. [foll by of] to create or form by pressing together

    sediment compacted of three types of clay

11. 11. vt. [metallurgy] to compress (a metal powder) to form a stable product suitable for sintering

12. 12. n a small flat case containing a mirror, face powder, etc, designed to be carried in a woman's handbag

13. 13. n [US and Canadian] a comparatively small and economical car

14. 14. n [metallurgy] a mass of metal prepared for sintering by cold-pressing a metal powder

15. 15. n a tabloid-sized version of a newspaper that has traditionally been publis hed in broadsheet form

16. 16. n [Etymology] C16: from Latin compactus, from compingere to put together, from com- together + pangere to fasten

compact ['kɑmpækt]

1. 1. n an official contract or agreement

2. 2. n [Etymology] C16: from Latin compactum, from compacisci to agree, from com- together + pacisci to contract; see pact