Meaning of compact in English | Powered by Free Dictionary API

noun

• An agreement or contract.

noun

• A small, slim folding case, often featuring a mirror, powder and a powderpuff; that fits into a woman's purse or handbag, or that slips into one's pocket.

• A broadsheet newspaper published in the size of a tabloid but keeping its non-sensational style.

verb

• To make more dense; to compress.

• To unite or connect firmly, as in a system.

adjective

• Closely packed, i.e. packing much in a small space.

• Having all necessary features fitting neatly into a small space.

  Example: a compact laptop computer

• (of a set in an Euclidean space) Closed and bounded.

  Example: 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.

• (of a set) Such that every open cover of the given set has a finite subcover.

• Brief; close; pithy; not diffuse; not verbose.

  Example: a compact discourse

• Joined or held together; leagued; confederated.

• Composed or made; with of.