compaction

English

Etymology

From Old French compaction, from Latin compactionem, from compingere.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada, General Australian) IPA^(key): /kəmˈpækʃən/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /kəmˈpɛkʃən/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

compaction (countable and uncountable, plural compactions)

1. The process of compacting something, or something that has been compacted.
   • 2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate, published 2010, page 480:

     At Smithfield Frith is being shovelled up, his youth, his grace, his learning and his beauty: a compaction of mud, grease, charred bone.

Derived terms

• autocompaction
• compactional
• decompaction
• hypercompaction
• noncompaction
• precompaction
• recompaction
• supercompaction
• vibrocompaction

Translations

process of compacting

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 壓實 / 压实 (zh) (yāshí) (geology)

• Japanese: 圧密 (あつみつ, atsumitsu) (geology)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kompaktering m or f

  Nynorsk: kompaktering f

  Spanish: compactación (es) f (geology)