compact
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From Latin compactum (“‘agreement’”).
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compact (plural compacts)
- An agreement or contract.
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From Middle English, from Latin compāctus, perfect passive participle of compingō (“‘join together’”), from com- (“‘together’”) + pangō (“‘fasten’”), from Proto-Indo-European *pag- (“‘to fasten’”).
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compact (comparative more compact, superlative most compact)
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- Closely packed, i.e. packing much in a small space.
- Having all necessary features fitting neatly into a small space.
- (mathematics) (of a set) Closed and bounded.
- A set S of real numbers is called compact if every sequence in S has a subsequence that converges to an element again contained in S.
- (topology) Such that every exhaustion of it by (overlapping) open balls has the property that some finitely many of those balls will also cover it.
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compact (plural compacts)
- A small folding mirror containing powder that fits into a woman's purse or handbag.
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to compact (third-person singular simple present compacts, present participle compacting, simple past and past participle compacted)
- (transitive) To make more dense; to compress.
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compact (comparative compacter, superlative compactst)
- compact (closely packed), dense
- compact (having all necessary features fitting neatly into a small space)
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| Inflection of compact |
absolute | comparative | superlative | ||
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| common singular | compacte | compactere | compactste | de compactste | |
| neuter singular |
indefinite | compact | compacter | compactst, compactste |
het compactst, het compactste |
| definite | compacte | compactere | |||
| plural | compacte | compactere | compactste | de compactste | |
| predicative | compact | compacter | |||
| partitive | compacts | compacters | |||
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compact m. (f. compacte, m. plural compacts, f. plural compactes)
- compact (closely packed), dense
- compact (having all necessary features fitting neatly into a small space)
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compact m. (plural compacts)
- compact disc
- music center (US), music centre (UK)
- compact camera
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- (compact disc): Compact Disc, disque compact