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Definition of compact verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

compact

verb
 
/kəmˈpækt/
 
/kəmˈpækt/
[usually passive]
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they compact
 
/kəmˈpækt/
 
/kəmˈpækt/
he / she / it compacts
 
/kəmˈpækts/
 
/kəmˈpækts/
past simple compacted
 
/kəmˈpæktɪd/
 
/kəmˈpæktɪd/
past participle compacted
 
/kəmˈpæktɪd/
 
/kəmˈpæktɪd/
-ing form compacting
 
/kəmˈpæktɪŋ/
 
/kəmˈpæktɪŋ/
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  1. compact something to press something tightly together
    • a layer of compacted snow
    Word Originverb late Middle English: from Latin compact- ‘closely put together, joined’, from the verb compingere, from com- ‘together’ + pangere ‘fasten’.
See compact in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary
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