Look up: compact

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   COMPACT
   COMPACT is an abbreviation for COMmercial Product ACquisition Team
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   Compact
   An agreement made by voluntary sector representatives and the government in 1998 covering the relationship between the two. Under the compact the government is committed to giving three months' notice of funding decisions and 12 weeks consultation, better feedback and statements on how proposed legislation will impact on the voluntary sector. The scheme has led to local compacts, and compacts on specific issues.
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   [adj] - heavy and compact in form or stature 2. [adj] - closely crowded together 3. [adj] - closely and firmly united or packed together 4. [n] - a small and economical car 5. [n] - a small cosmetics case with a mirror 6. [v] - have the property of being packable or compactable or of compacting easily
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   compact
   1. (Or 'finite', 'isolated') In domain theory, an element d of a cpo D is compact if and only if, for any chain S, a subset of D, d (= lub S =) there exists s in S such that d (= s. I.e. you always reach d (or better) after a finite number of steps up the chain. ('(=' is written in LaTeX as \sqsubseteq). [Jargon File] (1995-01-13) 2. Of a d...
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   a body produced by the compression of metallic or non-metallic powders in a die Category: Nuclear industry (with applied atomic and nuclear physics) • the cadmium sulphide cell is particularly --, usually even smaller than a barrier layer cell, and is thus suitable for building into cameras. Category: General
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   Compact
   Definition (undergraduate level) A topological space is compact if every open cover of the entire space has a finite subcover. For example, [ a , b ] is compact in R (the Heine-Borel theorem). The continuous image of a compact set is compact, as is a closed subset of a compact set. Moreover, there is a partial converse in that every compact set of ...
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   Compact
   Com·pact' (kŏm*păkt') past participle & a [ Latin compactus , past participle of compingere to join or unite; com- + pangere to fasten, fix: confer French compacte . See Pact .] 1. Joined or held together; leagued; confederated. [ Obsolete] ' Compact with her that's gone.' Shak. « A pipe of seven reeds, compact< ...
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   Compact
   Com·pact' transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Compacted ; present participle & verbal noun Compacting .] 1. To thrust, drive, or press closely together; to join firmly; to consolidate; to make close; -- as the parts which compose a body. « Now the bright sun compacts the precious stone. Blackstone.
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   Compact
   Com'pact (kŏm'păkt) noun [ Latin compactum , from compacisci , past participle compactus , to make an agreement with; com- + pacisci to make an agreement. See Pact .] An agreement between parties; a covenant or contract. « The law of nations depends on mutual compacts , treaties, leagues, etc. Blackstone. » « ...
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    compact
    dense adjective having component parts closely crowded together; `a compact shopping center`; `a dense population`; `thick crowds`; `a thick forest`; `thick hair`
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    heavyset 1 stocky adjective 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`
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    compact
    adjective closely and firmly united or packed together; `compact soil`; `compact clusters of flowers`
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    compact
    powder compact noun a small cosmetics case with a mirror; to be carried in a woman`s purse
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    noun a small and economical car
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    verb make more compact by or as if by pressing; `compress the data`
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    A set is compact if it is closed and bounded. The concept comes up most often in economics in the context of a theory in which a function must be maximized. Continuous functions that are well defined on a compact domain have a maximum and minimum; this is the Weierstrauss Theorem. Noncontinuous functions, or functions on a noncompact domain, may no...
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    Compact
    • (v. t.) To thrust, drive, or press closely together; to join firmly; to consolidate; to make close; -- as the parts which compose a body. • (p. p. & a) Closely or firmly united, as the particles of solid bodies; firm; close; solid; dense. • (p. p. & a) Composed or made; -- with of. • (n.) An agreement between parties; a covena...
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    compact Related 'together' units: greg-; inter-; struct-.
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