To thrust, drive, pack, or press closely together; join firmly; consolidate, as the parts which compose a body; condense.

To unite or connect firmly, as in a system; join the parts of tightly; bring into close junction, as the sheets of a book or other loose materials, by heating, pressure, or the like.

To make firm or stable; establish firmly; confirm; solidify.

United in a compact; leagued; confederated.

To make a contract or enter into an agreement.

In petrography, dense without pores: also applied to extremely fine-grained textures in which the individual crystals or grains cannot be seen by the unaided eye: equivalent to aphanitic, cryptocrystalline, and cryptoclastic.

Closely and firmly united, as the parts or particles of solid bodies; having the parts or particles pressed or packed together; solid; dense: as, a compact mass of people.

In entomology, specifically, compacted or pressed close, as a jointed organ, or any part of it, when the joints are very closely united, forming a continuous mass: as, a compact antennal club; compact palpi.

Connected or expressed with closeness or brevity, as ideas; hence, of literary style, pithy; terse; not diffuse; not verbose: as, a compact discourse.

Compacted; joined; held together.

Composed; consisting; made.

Synonyms Firm, condensed.

Terse, sententious, succinct concise.

noun. Structure; frame.

noun. An agreement; a contract between parties; in general, any covenant or contract between individuals, members of a community, or nations.

transitive verb. To thrust, drive, or press closely together; to join firmly; to consolidate; to make close; -- as the parts which compose a body.

transitive verb. To unite or connect firmly, as in a system.

past participle. Joined or held together; leagued; confederated.

past participle. Composed or made; -- with of.

past participle. Closely or firmly united, as the particles of solid bodies; firm; close; solid; dense.

past participle. Brief; close; pithy; not diffuse; not verbose.

noun. An agreement between parties; a covenant or contract.

noun. An agreement or contract.

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

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

adjective. Closed and bounded.

adjective. Such that every exhaustion of it by (overlapping) open balls has the property that some finitely many of those balls will also cover it.

adjective. Such that every open cover of the given set has a finite subcover.

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 ones pocket.

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

verb. To make more dense; to compress.

verb. make more compact by or as if by pressing

noun. a signed written agreement between two or more parties (nations) to perform some action

adjective. briefly giving the gist of something

noun. a small and economical car

verb. squeeze or press together

adjective. closely and firmly united or packed together

verb. have the property of being packable or of compacting easily

noun. a small cosmetics case with a mirror; to be carried in a woman's purse

adjective. having a short and solid form or stature

verb. compress into a wad

"The nominally, but not practically, five-seat Juke is built on the Versa platform and gives new meaning to the word compact when related to CUVs."

composed  concise  family compact  mayflower compact  social compact  

clayey  cloggy  close-packed  concise  consolidated  

compact car  compact disc  compacted  compacting  locally compact  

auto  automobile  be  car  case  

abstract  act  attacked  attract  backed  

dense  elegant  flexible  neat  portable  

Spartan  abbreviate  abbreviated  abridge  abridged  

compacted  compacting  compactness  compacts