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compact [a]

1)	closely and firmly united or packed together; "compact soil"; "compact clusters of flowers"

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clayey close-packed concentrated impacted serried loose consolidated packed tight

2)	closely crowded together; "a compact shopping center"; "a dense population"; "thick crowds"

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dense thick

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concentrated

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"

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heavyset stocky thick thickset

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fat

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"

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compendious succinct summary

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concise

compact [n]

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

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powder_compact

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case

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

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concordat covenant

3)	a small and economical car

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compact_car

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auto

compact [v]

1)	have the property of being packable or compactable or of compacting easily; "This powder compacts easily"; "Such odd-shaped items do not pack well"

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pack

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bundle be compaction

2)	compress into a wad; "wad paper into the box"

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bundle pack wad

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arrange compaction chaw bundle_off packing puddle

3)	make more compact by or as if by pressing; "compress the data"

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compress pack_together

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press force compaction decompress compression compressing pack

4)	squeeze or press together; "she compressed her lips"; "the spasm contracted the muscle"

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compress constrict contract press squeeze

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tighten press contraction contracture contractile_organ constriction constrictor compression compressing compressor choke prim astringe strangulate convulse convulse bear_down choke choke

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing: (http://www.foldoc.org/, Editor Denis Howe)

1. (Or "finite", "isolated") In domain theory, an element d of a cpo D is compact if and only if, for any chain S, a subset of D,

d <= lub S => there exists s in S such that d <= s.

I.e. you always reach d (or better) after a finite number of steps up the chain.

("<=" is written in LaTeX as \sqsubseteq).

[Jargon File]

(1995-01-13)

2. 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).

(1995-01-13)

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