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com·pact

adjective
  1. closely and neatly packed together; dense.
    "a compact cluster of houses"
    synonyms: dense, packed close, close-packed, tightly packed, pressed together, thick, tight, firm, solid
  2. composed or made up of.
    "towns compact of wooden houses"

verb
exert force on (something) to make it more dense; compress.
"the soil may be compacted by iron oxide"
synonyms: compress, condense, pack down, press down, tamp, tamp down, cram down, ram down, flatten

noun
  1. a small flat case containing face powder, a mirror, and a powder puff.
  2. something that is a small and conveniently shaped example of its kind.
    "a wide selection of films is available for your 35 mm compact"
  3. a mass of powdered metal compacted together in preparation for sintering.
    "strength is then introduced by infiltrating glass into the compact"

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