compact

About 8.24 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun An agreement or contract.
2. verb To form an agreement or contract.
3. adjective Agreed, contracted.
4. adjective Closely packed or densely constituted; having much material in a small volume.
5. adjective Having all necessary features fitting neatly into a small space.

   a compact laptop computer

6. adjective Brief and pithy; not verbose.

   a compact discourse

7. adjective 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.
8. adjective 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.

Similar words

covenant contract consolidated compendious concentrated summary concise succinct close-packed constrict

Often followed by

and disc with of form between discs bone mass

Word family

compacted compacter compacters compactest compactible compacting compactly compactness compactnesses compactor