compact

nom

1. 1

   An agreement or contract.

   President Biden laid out an ambitious agenda on Wednesday night to rewrite the American social compact by vastly expanding family leave, child care, health care, preschool and college education for millions of people to be financed with increased taxes on the wealthiest earners.

   After taking over this month as president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, a nonpartisan coalition of city mayors, he urged members to sign a “crypto compact” calling on the federal government to eschew overly aggressive regulation of the industry.

   Countering this in international media by offering more balanced views for a global audience is near impossible as censorship is rife. There almost seems to be a global compact to control the narrative, a propaganda war powered by today’s digital technology.

verbe

1. 1

   To form an agreement or contract.

   In return for the sovereign's protection, they compacted to police the content of public literature.

adjectif

1. 1

   archaïqueAgreed, contracted.

   O Gorice XI., most glorious King of Witchland, and O Lord Goldry Bluszco, captain of the hosts of Demonland, it is compact betwixt you, and made fast by mighty oaths whereof I, the Red Foliot, am keeper, that ye shall wrastle three falls together on these conditions, […]

adjectif

1. 1

   Closely packed or densely constituted; having much material in a small volume.

   glass, crystal, gems, and other compact bodies

2. 2

   Having all necessary features fitting neatly into a small space.

   a compact laptop computer

3. 3

   Brief and pithy; not verbose.

   a compact discourse

4. 4

   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.

5. 5

   Of a topological space: Compact in the above sense and moreover Hausdorff.

6. 6

   obsolèteJoined or held together; leagued; confederated.

   Thou fooliſh Frier, and thou pernicious woman / Compact with her that's gone:

   a pipe of seven reeds, compact with wax together

7. 7

   obsolèteComposed or made; with of.

   A wandering fire, / Compact of unctuous vapor.

nom

1. 1

   A slim folding case, often featuring a mirror, powder and a powder puff, small enough to fit in a woman's purse, handbag, or pocket.

2. 2

   An automobile that is larger than a subcompact but smaller than an intermediate.

3. 3

   A broadsheet newspaper published in the size of a tabloid but keeping its non-sensational style.

   The Dundee Courier has announced the newspaper will be relaunching as a compact later this week. Editor Richard Neville said a "brighter, bolder" paper would appear from Saturday, shrunk from broadsheet to tabloid size.

verbe

1. 1

   To make more dense; to compress.

   You need to excavate and remove the topsoil, line the subsoil with a geotextile, then lay and compact hardcore.

2. 2

   To unite or connect firmly, as in a system.

   The whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth.

Formes

pluriel

compacts

comparatif

more compact, compacter

superlatif

most compact, compactest

passé

compacted

participe passé

compacted

participe présent

compacting

3ᵉ personne du singulier

compacts