compact
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəmˈpækt/
ipa: /kəmˈpækt/
ipa: /ˈkɑmˌpækt/
ipa: /kəmˈpækt/
ipa: /kəmˈpækt/
ipa: /ˈkɑmˌpækt/
Forms: form: more compact
form: compacter
form: most compact
form: compactest
Etymology: From Middle French compact, from Latin compāctus, perfect passive participle of compingō (“join together”), from com- (“together”) + pangō (“fasten”), from Proto-Indo-European *pag- (“to fasten”).
Senses: examples: text: glass, crystal, gems, and other compact bodies
ref: 1704, I[saac] N[ewton], “(please specify |book=1 to 3)”, in Opticks: Or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light. […], London: […] Sam[uel] Smith, and Benj[amin] Walford, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC:
synonyms: concentrated
crowded
dense
serried
glosses: Closely packed or densely constituted; having much material in a small volume.
examples: text: a compact laptop computer
glosses: Having all necessary features fitting neatly into a small space.
examples: text: a compact discourse
glosses: Brief and pithy; not verbose.
raw_tags: of prose
topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: Of a topological space:
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.
synonyms: quasi-compact
topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: Of a topological space:
Compact in the above sense and moreover Hausdorff.
examples: text: Thou fooliſh Frier, and thou pernicious woman / Compact with her that's gone:
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 81:
text: a pipe of seven reeds, compact with wax together
ref: 1622, Henry Peacham (Junior), The Compleat Gentleman:
glosses: Joined or held together; leagued; confederated.
examples: text: A wandering fire, / Compact of unctuous vapor.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
glosses: Composed or made; with of.
Synonyms: word: close
word: compact
word: crowded
word: dense
word: solid
word: thick
word: tight
Hyponyms: word: concentrated
word: serried
word: tight-fitting
word: packed
word: rammed
Derived terms: word: cocompact
word: compact audio cassette
word: compact camera
word: compact cassette
word: compact disc
word: compact disk
word: compact executive car
word: compact fluorescent lamp
word: compactification
word: compactify
word: compactin
word: compactization
word: compactly
english: compact neighborhood
translation: compact neighborhood
word: compact neighbourhood
word: compactness
word: compacton
word: compact space
word: compact star
word: decompact
word: Hickson compact group
word: hypercompact
word: incompact
word: locally compact
word: locally compact group
english: massive and compact halo object, massive astronomical compact halo object, massive astrophysical compact halo object
translation: massive and compact halo object, massive astronomical compact halo object, massive astrophysical compact halo object
word: massive compact halo object
word: metacompact
word: noncompact
word: paracompact
word: precompact
word: pseudocompact
word: quasi-compact
word: semicompact
word: supercompact
word: uncompact
word: σ-compact