compact

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈkɒmˌpækt/    美 /ˈkɑmˌpækt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.
  2. 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.
  3. An automobile that is larger than a subcompact but smaller than an intermediate.
  4. 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.
动词 v.
  1. To form an agreement or contract. intransitive
    — In return for the sovereign's protection, they compacted to police the content of public literature.
  2. To make more dense; to compress. transitive
    — You need to excavate and remove the topsoil, line the subsoil with a geotextile, then lay and compact hardcore.
  3. To unite or connect firmly, as in a system.
    — The whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth.
形容词 adj.
  1. Agreed, contracted. archaic,not-comparable
    — 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, […]
  2. Closely packed or densely constituted; having much material in a small volume.
    — glass, crystal, gems, and other compact bodies
  3. Having all necessary features fitting neatly into a small space.
    — a compact laptop computer
  4. Brief and pithy; not verbose.
    — a compact discourse
  5. 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. not-comparable
  6. Of a topological space:; Compact in the above sense and moreover Hausdorff. not-comparable
  7. Joined or held together; leagued; confederated. obsolete
    — Thou fooliſh Frier, and thou pernicious woman / Compact with her that's gone:
  8. Composed or made; with of. obsolete
    — A wandering fire, / Compact of unctuous vapor.

词形变化

compacts plural compacts present,singular,third-person compacting participle,present compacted participle,past compacted past more compact comparative compacter comparative most compact superlative compactest superlative compacts plural compacts present,singular,third-person compacting participle,present compacted participle,past compacted past

词汇关系

近义词
close compact crowded dense solid thick tight condense
反义词
loose diffuse noncompact uncompact spaced out spread out
下位词
concentrated serried tight-fitting packed rammed
衍生词
cocompact compact audio cassette compact camera compact cassette compact disc compact disk compact executive car compact fluorescent lamp compactification compactify compactin compactization compactly compact neighbourhood compactness compacton compact space compact star decompact Hickson compact group hypercompact incompact locally compact locally compact group massive compact halo object metacompact noncompact paracompact pseudocompact quasi-compact semicompact supercompact σ-compact precompact uncompact minicompact compactable compactible recompact

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Latin compactumbor.
English compact
Borrowed from Latin compactum (“agreement”).
词源 2
From Middle French compact, from Latin compāctus, perfect passive participle of compingō (“join together”), from com- (“together”) + pangō (“fasten”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ- (“to attach, fix, fasten”).
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