compact adj
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]
compact
(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]