7 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]: Compact \Com*pact"\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Compacted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Compacting}.] 1. To thrust, drive, or press closely together; to join firmly; to consolidate; to make close; -- as the parts which compose a body. Now the bright sun compacts the precious stone. --Blackstone. 2. To unite or connect firmly, as in a system. The whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth. --Eph. iv. 16. From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]: Compact \Com*pact"\ (k[o^]m*p[a^]kt"), p. p. & a. [L. compactus, p. p. of compingere to join or unite; com- + pangere to fasten, fix: cf. F. compacte. See {Pact}.] 1. Joined or held together; leagued; confederated. [Obs.] ''Compact with her that's gone.'' --Shak. A pipe of seven reeds, compact with wax together. --Peacham. 2. Composed or made; -- with of. [Poetic] A wandering fire, Compact of unctuous vapor. --Milton. 3. Closely or firmly united, as the particles of solid bodies; firm; close; solid; dense. Glass, crystal, gems, and other compact bodies. --Sir I. Newton. 4. Brief; close; pithy; not diffuse; not verbose; as, a compact discourse. Syn: Firm; close; solid; dense; pithy; sententious. From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]: Compact \Com"pact\ (k[o^]m"p[a^]kt), noun [L. compactum, fr. compacisci, p. p. compactus, to make an agreement with; com- + pacisci to make an agreement. See {Pact}.] An agreement between parties; a covenant or contract. The law of nations depends on mutual compacts, treaties, leagues, etc. --Blackstone. Wedlock is described as the indissoluble compact. --Macaulay. The federal constitution has been styled a compact between the States by which it was ratified. --Wharton. Syn: See {Covenant}. From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: compact adjective 1: closely and firmly united or packed together; "compact soil"; "compact clusters of flowers" [ant: {loose}] 2: closely crowded together; "a compact shopping center"; "a dense population"; "thick crowds" [syn: {dense}, {thick}] 3: heavy and compact in form or stature; "a wrestler of compact build"; "he was tall and heavyset"; "stocky legs"; "a thick middle-aged man"; "a thickset young man" [syn: {heavyset}, {stocky}, {thick}, {thickset}] 4: briefly giving the gist of something; "a short and compendious book"; "a compact style is brief and pithy"; "succinct comparisons"; "a summary formulation of a wide-ranging subject" [syn: {compendious}, {succinct}, {summary}] noun 1: a small cosmetics case with a mirror; to be carried in a woman's purse [syn: {powder compact}] 2: a signed written agreement between two or more parties (nations) to perform some action [syn: {covenant}, {concordat}] 3: a small and economical car [syn: {compact car}] verb 1: have the property of being packable or compactable or of compacting easily; "This powder compacts easily"; "Such odd-shaped items do not pack well" [syn: {pack}] 2: compress into a wad; "wad paper into the box" [syn: {pack}, {bundle}, {wad}] 3: make more compact by or as if by pressing; "compress the data" [syn: {compress}, {pack together}] [ant: {decompress}] 4: squeeze or press together; "she compressed her lips"; "the spasm contracted the muscle" [syn: {compress}, {constrict}, {squeeze}, {contract}, {press}] From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 313 Moby Thesaurus words for "compact": Spartan, abbreviate, abbreviated, abridged, agree, agree to, agreement, airtight, ammunition box, aphoristic, aposiopestic, ark, attache case, baby, baby-sized, bandolier, bantam, banty, bargain, bargain for, base, billfold, bin, bond, boot, box, brief, briefcase, bristling, brusque, bunched, bunker, caisson, canister, capsula, capsule, cardcase, carton, casket, cedar chest, chest, cigarette case, circumscribe, cist, clamped, clipped, close, close-knit, close-textured, close-woven, clown white, coarct, coffer, coffin, coincident, cold cream, combine, compact, compacted, compendious, comprehensive, compress, compressed, concentrate, concentrated, concise, concrete, concurrent, condense, condensed, cone, congest, congested, conjoint, conjugate, conjunct, consolidate, consolidated, consortium, constrict, constricted, constringe, contract, contracted, convention, cordial understanding, corporate, cosmetics, covenant, cram, crammed, crammed full, cramp, cramped, crate, crawling, crib, crisp, crowd, crowded, curt, curtail, curtal, curtate, cut, decrease, decurtate, dense, densen, densify, diminutive, dispatch box, do a deal, docked, draw, draw in, draw together, drugstore complexion, duodecimo, dustproof, dusttight, elliptic, engage, entente, entente cordiale, envelope, epigrammatic, etui, eye shadow, eyebrow pencil, fast, file, file folder, filing box, firm, folio, foundation, foundation cream, full, gasproof, gastight, gluey, gnomic, greasepaint, hand cream, hand lotion, handy, hard, heavy, hermetic, hermetically sealed, holster, hope chest, housewife, hussy, hutch, impenetrable, impermeable, inclusive, instantaneous, integrate, jam, jam-packed, jammed, joined, joint, kit, knit, knitted, laconic, letter file, lightproof, lighttight, lip rouge, lipstick, little, low, make a deal, makeup, mascara, massive, meaty, miniature, miniaturized, minikin, minimal, minuscule, monstrance, mudpack, mutual understanding, nail polish, narrow, nipped, nonporous, oilproof, oiltight, ostensorium, packed, packet, packing case, pact, paint, pillbox, pinched, pinched-in, pithy, pocket, pocket-sized, pod, pointed, pony, populous, portfolio, powder, powder box, powder puff, press, promise, pruned, pucker, pucker up, puckered, puff, purse, pursed, quiver, rack, rainproof, raintight, ram down, reduce, reliquary, reserved, rouge, sarcophagus, scabbard, sealed, sententious, serried, set, sheath, short, short and sweet, shorten, shortened, shut fast, skippet, small, small-scale, smokeproof, smoketight, snuffbox, snug, socket, solid, solidified, solidify, spectacle case, squeeze, squeezed, staunch, stipulate, stormproof, stormtight, strangle, strangled, strangulate, strangulated, subminiature, substantial, succinct, summary, swarming, synopsized, synoptic, taciturn, talcum, talcum powder, tea chest, teeming, terse, thick, thick-growing, thickset, tight, till, tinderbox, to the point, toy, transaction, transient, truncated, twelvemo, understanding, undertake, unite, vanishing cream, vanity case, vasculum, vest-pocket, viscid, viscose, viscous, wallet, war paint, wasp-waisted, water-repellant, waterproof, watertight, windproof, windtight, wrinkle, wrinkled From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]: compact adjective Of a design, describes the valuable property that it can all be apprehended at once in one's head. This generally means the thing created from the design can be used with greater facility and fewer errors than an equivalent tool that is not compact. Compactness does not imply triviality or lack of power; for example, C is compact and FORTRAN is not, but C is more powerful than FORTRAN. Designs become non-compact through accreting {feature}s and {cruft} that don't merge cleanly into the overall design scheme (thus, some fans of {Classic C} maintain that ANSI C is no longer compact). From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]: compact 1. (Or "finite", "isolated") In {domain theory}, an element d of a {cpo} D is compact if and only if, for any {chain} S, a subset of D, d there exists s in S such that d

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