compaction
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From French compaction, from Latin compactionem, from compingere.
[edit] Noun
compaction (plural compactions)
- The process of compacting something, or something that has been compacted.
- 2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate 2010, p. 480:
- At Smithfield Frith is being shovelled up, his youth, his grace, his learning and his beauty: a compaction of mud, grease, charred bone.
- 2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate 2010, p. 480:
