Definitions for COMPACT

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COMPACT com·pact

Spelling: [adjective kuh m-pakt, kom-, kom-pakt;

IPA: /adjective kəmˈpækt, kɒm-, ˈkɒm pækt; verb kəmˈpækt; noun ˈkɒm pækt/

Compact is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 147 anagrams from letters in COMPACT (accmopt).

Definitions for COMPACT

noun

1. a small case containing a mirror, face powder, a puff, and sometimes rouge.
2. Also called compact car. an automobile that is smaller than an intermediate but larger than a subcompact and generally has a combined passenger and luggage volume of 100–110 cu. ft. (2.8–3.1 m 3).
3. Metallurgy. (in powder metallurgy) an object to be sintered formed of metallic or of metallic and nonmetallic powders compressed in a die.
4. a formal agreement between two or more parties, states, etc.; contract:

adjective

1. joined or packed together; closely and firmly united; dense; solid:
2. arranged within a relatively small space:
3. designed to be small in size and economical in operation.
4. solidly or firmly built:
5. expressed concisely; pithy; terse; not diffuse:
6. composed or made (usually followed by of):
7. Also, bicompact. Mathematics. (of a set) having the property that in any collection of open sets whose union contains the given set there exists a finite number of open sets whose union contains the given set; having the property that every open cover has a finite subcover.

verb (used with object)

1. to join or pack closely together; consolidate; condense.
2. to make firm or stable.
3. to form or make by close union or conjunction; make up or compose.
4. Metallurgy. to compress (metallic or metallic and nonmetallic powders) in a die to be sintered.
5. to crush into compact form for convenient disposal or for storage until disposal:

Origin of COMPACT

1375-1425; late Middle English Latin compāctus (past participle of compingere to shut away, bind together), equivalent to com- com- + pag-, variant stem of pangere to

Examples for COMPACT

It will swiftly become clear that there is no room in this starry-eyed arrangement for a compact with Washington.

The officers and other white men stood about in a compact and silent group.

One of note is a compact power adaptor with a protective cover.

compact and precise—just 172 pages of text and 23 pages of notes—the book is a model of lucid historical writing.

The hour that sealed the compact between us was one of regret and alarm.

The next thing that happened, which was really great, was that the tapes became available on compact discs.

With the Christian monarch, there is no hope of peace or compact.

A compact little group of men rounded the bend and approached.

Films are at their best when they can compact a story down to its essentials.

This writing, mighty Ferdinand, contains the articles of our compact.