compact
/kəmˈpækt/
Closely packed or densely constituted; having much material in a small volume; Having all necessary features fitting neatly into a small space; Brief and pithy
- comparative
- compacter
- superlative
- compactest
Meanings
- 1
Closely packed or densely constituted; having much material in a small volume
The compact edition is cheaper.
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The compact edition costs less.
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- 2
Having all necessary features fitting neatly into a small space
- 3
Brief and pithy; not verbose
- 4
Agreed, contractedrare
- 5
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 — Of a topological spacerare
- 6
Compact in the above sense and moreover Hausdorff — Of a topological spacerare
- 7
Joined or held together; leagued; confederatedrare
- 8
Composed or made; with ofrare