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say it: KAHM-pakt
compact is a verb, noun and adjective meaning "have the property of being packable or of compacting easily". It carries 10 recorded senses.
make more compact by or as if by pressing
“compress the data”
a small cosmetics case with a mirror; to be carried in a woman's purse
a signed written agreement between two or more parties (nations) to perform some action
a small and economical car
closely and firmly united or packed together
“compact soil”
“compact clusters of flowers”
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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for compact come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.