compact
UK /ˈkɒmˌpækt/ · US /ˈkɑmˌpækt/ noun, verb, adjective
Forms compacts compacting compacted compacter compactest
- noun An agreement or contract.
- verb (intransitive) To form an agreement or contract.
- adjective (archaic) Agreed, contracted.
- adjective Closely packed or densely constituted; having much material in a small volume.
- adjective Having all necessary features fitting neatly into a small space. “a compact laptop computer”
- adjective (of prose) Brief and pithy; not verbose. “a compact discourse”
- adjective 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.
- adjective Compact in the above sense and moreover Hausdorff.
- adjective (obsolete) Joined or held together; leagued; confederated.
- adjective (obsolete) Composed or made; with of.
- noun 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.
- noun An automobile that is larger than a subcompact but smaller than an intermediate.
- noun A broadsheet newspaper published in the size of a tabloid but keeping its non-sensational style.
- verb (transitive) To make more dense; to compress.
- verb To unite or connect firmly, as in a system.
Synonyms
agreement contract pact treaty close crowded dense solid thick tight concentrated serried quasi-compact powder box compress condense powder compact covenant concordat compact car pack bundle wad pack together constrict squeeze press heavyset stocky thickset
Antonyms
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin compactum (“agreement”).
From Middle French compact, from Latin compāctus, perfect passive participle of compingō (“join together”), from com- (“together”) + pangō (“fasten”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ- (“to attach, fix, fasten”).
Webster’s 1913
- participle Joined or held together; leagued; confederated. [Obs.] "Compact with her that's gone." Shak.
- participle Composed or made; --with of. [Poetic]
- verb To thrust, drive, or press closely together; to join firmly; to consolidate; to make close; --as the parts which compose a body.
- verb To unite or connect firmly, as in a system.
Etymology [L. compactus, p. p. of compingere to join or unite; com- + pangere to fasten, fix: cf. F. compacte. See Pact.]
Etymology [L. compactum, fr. compacisci, p. p. compactus, to make an agreement with; com- + pacisci to make an agreement. See Pact.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “compact”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details