• Noun:
  • (British) IPA: /ˈkɒmˌpækt/
  • (America) IPA: /ˈkɑmˌpækt/
• Adjective:
  • (British) IPA: /kəmˈpækt/
  • (America) IPA: /kəmˈpækt/, /ˈkɑmˌpækt/
• Verb:
  • (America, British) IPA: /kəmˈpækt/

compact (plural compacts)

1. An agreement or contract.

• agreement, contract, pact, treaty

• German: Pakt, Kontrakt, Übereinkommen, Vertrag
• Portuguese: acordo, contrato, pacto
• Russian: пакт
• Spanish: acuerdo

compact

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

   • glass, crystal, gems, and other compact bodies

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

   a compact laptop computer

3. (mathematics, uncomparable, of a set in an Euclidean space) Closed and bounded.

   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.

4. (topology, uncomparable, of a set) Such that every open cover of the given set has a finite subcover.
5. Brief; close; pithy; not diffuse; not verbose.

   a compact discourse

6. (obsolete) Joined or held together; leagued; confederated.

   • c. 1603–1604, William Shakespeare, “Measvre for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act V, scene i]:

     compact with her that's gone

   • a pipe of seven reeds, compact with wax together

7. (obsolete) Composed or made; with of.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book 8”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:

     A wandering fire, / Compact of unctuous vapor.

• (closely packed) concentrated, crowded, dense, serried, solid, thick, tight; see also Thesaurus:compact

• French: compact
• Italian: compatto
• Portuguese: compacto
• Russian: компа́ктный
• Spanish: compacto

• French: compact
• Portuguese: compacto
• Russian: компа́ктный

• French: compact
• German: kompakt
• Portuguese: compacto

compact (plural compacts)

1. 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.
2. A broadsheet newspaper published in the size of a tabloid but keeping its non-sensational style.
   • 2012, BBC News: Dundee Courier makes move to compact :

     The Dundee Courier has announced the newspaper will be relaunching as a compact later this week. Editor Richard Neville said a "brighter, bolder" paper would appear from Saturday, shrunk from broadsheet to tabloid size.

compact (compacts, present participle compacting; past and past participle compacted)

1. (transitive) To make more dense; to compress.
2. To unite or connect firmly, as in a system.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, Ephesians 4:16 ↗:

     The whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth.

• (make more dense) compress, condense; see also Thesaurus:compress

• German: komprimieren
• Portuguese: compactar
• Spanish: compactar, apelmazar