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Definition of Compact
Compact

Joined or held together; leagued; confederated.

Composed or made; -- with of.

Closely or firmly united, as the particles of solid bodies; firm; close; solid; dense.

Brief; close; pithy; not diffuse; not verbose; as, a compact discourse.

To thrust, drive, or press closely together; to join firmly; to consolidate; to make close; -- as the parts which compose a body.

To unite or connect firmly, as in a system.

An agreement between parties; a covenant or contract.

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Compact Quotations

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.
William Shakespeare

Confederation is a compact, made originally by four provinces but adhered to by all the nine provinces who have entered it, and I submit to the judgment of this house and to the best consideration of its members, that this compact should not be lightly altered.
Wilfrid Laurier

Hence a ship is said to be tight, when her planks are so compact and solid as to prevent the entrance of the water in which she is immersed: and a cask is called tight, when the staves are so close that none of the liquid contained therein can issue through or between them.
William Falconer

Justice... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
Epicurus

My view was that the campaign had been a sacred thing, that it had been a real compact, because I was there and I saw the connection that Clinton made with people, and the connection that they made with him.
Paul Begala

Compact Translations

compact in Afrikaans is kompak
compact in Dutch is compact, dicht
compact in French is compact, compacter
compact in German is kompakt
compact in Italian is compatto
compact in Latin is foedus, adstringo
compact in Portuguese is estojo compacto
compact in Spanish is compacto, polvera de bolsillo
compact in Swedish is komprimera, dryg


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