Usually means: Small size, efficiently designed space.
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We found 46 dictionaries that define the word compact:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. compact: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. compact, compact: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. compact, compact: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. compact: Collins English Dictionary
  5. compact: Vocabulary.com
  6. Compact, compact: Wordnik
  7. compact: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. compact: Wiktionary
  9. compact: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. compact: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. compact: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. compact: Dictionary.com
  13. compact (adj.), compact (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. compact: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Compact (TV series), Compact (car), Compact (computing), Compact (cosmetics), Compact (mathematics), Compact (newspaper), Compact (right-wing magazine), Compact (topology), Compact, The Compact: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Compact: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. compact: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. compact: Rhymezone
  19. compact, compact: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. compact: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. compact: Free Dictionary
  22. compact: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. compact: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. compact: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. compact: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. compact: Glossary of research economics
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. compact: Legal dictionary
  5. compact: Financial dictionary
  6. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. compact: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Compact (mathematics), Compact (topology), compact: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. compact: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. COMPACT: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. -compact, -compact, compact, compact, compact: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  3. Compact: NRC Glossary of Nuclear Terms --

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See compacted as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An agreement or contract.
verb:  (intransitive) To form 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:  (topology, not comparable, of a topological space) Such that every open cover has a finite subcover. In a metric space, this is equivalent to being sequentially compact. In metric spaces with the Heine-Borel property, this is equivalent to being closed and bounded.
adjective:  (topology, not comparable, of a topological space) Compact in the above sense and moreover Hausdorff.
adjective:  Brief; close; pithy; not diffuse; not verbose.
adjective:  (obsolete) Joined or held together; leagued; confederated.
adjective:  (obsolete) Composed or made; with of.
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 one's pocket.
noun:  An automobile that is larger than a subcompact but smaller than an intermediate.
noun:  A broadsheet newspaper published in the size of a tabloid but keeping its non-sensational style.
verb:  (transitive) To make more dense; to compress.
verb:  To unite or connect firmly, as in a system.

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