COMPACT

Compact

A compact newspaper is a broadsheet-quality newspaper printed in a tabloid format, especially one in the United Kingdom. The term is used also for this size came into use in its current use when The Independent began producing a smaller format edition for London's commuters, designed to be easier to read when using mass transit.

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compact

Noun

  1. An agreement or contract.

Noun (etymology 2)

  1. A small, slim folding case, often featuring a mirror, powder and a powderpuff; that fits into a woman's purse or handbag, or that slips into ones pocket.
  2. A broadsheet newspaper published in the size of a tabloid but keeping its non-sensational style.

Verb

  1. To make more dense; to compress.
  2. To unite or connect firmly, as in a system.

Adjective

  1. Closely packed, i.e. packing much in a small space.
  2. Having all necessary features fitting neatly into a small space.
    a compact laptop computer
  3. Closed and bounded.
    A set S of real numbers is called compact if every sequence in S has a subsequence that converges to an element again contained in S.
  4. Such that every exhaustion of it by (overlapping) open balls has the property that some finitely many of those balls will also cover it.
  5. Such that every open cover of the given set has a finite subcover.
  6. Brief; close; pithy; not diffuse; not verbose.
    a compact discourse
  7. Joined or held together; leagued; confederated.
  8. Composed or made; with of.


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