compact

from The Century Dictionary.

• To thrust, drive, pack, or press closely together; join firmly; consolidate, as the parts which compose a body; condense.
• To unite or connect firmly, as in a system; join the parts of tightly; bring into close junction, as the sheets of a book or other loose materials, by heating, pressure, or the like.
• To make firm or stable; establish firmly; confirm; solidify.
• United in a compact; leagued; confederated.
• To make a contract or enter into an agreement.
• In petrography, dense without pores: also applied to extremely fine-grained textures in which the individual crystals or grains cannot be seen by the unaided eye: equivalent to aphanitic, cryptocrystalline, and cryptoclastic.
• Closely and firmly united, as the parts or particles of solid bodies; having the parts or particles pressed or packed together; solid; dense: as, a compact mass of people.
• In entomology, specifically, compacted or pressed close, as a jointed organ, or any part of it, when the joints are very closely united, forming a continuous mass: as, a compact antennal club; compact palpi.
• Connected or expressed with closeness or brevity, as ideas; hence, of literary style, pithy; terse; not diffuse; not verbose: as, a compact discourse.
• Compacted; joined; held together.
• Composed; consisting; made.
• Synonyms Firm, condensed.
• Terse, sententious, succinct concise.
• noun Structure; frame.
• noun An agreement; a contract between parties; in general, any covenant or contract between individuals, members of a community, or nations.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb To thrust, drive, or press closely together; to join firmly; to consolidate; to make close; -- as the parts which compose a body.
• transitive verb To unite or connect firmly, as in a system.
• past participle obsolete Joined or held together; leagued; confederated.
• past participle Poetic Composed or made; -- with of.
• past participle Closely or firmly united, as the particles of solid bodies; firm; close; solid; dense.
• past participle Brief; close; pithy; not diffuse; not verbose.
• noun An agreement between parties; a covenant or contract.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun An agreement or contract.
• adjective Closely packed, i.e. packing much in a small space.
• adjective Having all necessary features fitting neatly into a small space.
• adjective mathematics Closed and bounded.
• adjective topology Such that every exhaustion of it by (overlapping) open balls has the property that some finitely many of those balls will also cover it.
• adjective topology, of a set Such that every open cover of the given set has a finite subcover.
• noun 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.
• noun A broadsheet newspaper published in the size of a tabloid but keeping its non-sensational style.
• verb transitive To make more dense; to compress.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb make more compact by or as if by pressing
• noun a signed written agreement between two or more parties (nations) to perform some action
• adjective briefly giving the gist of something
• noun a small and economical car
• verb squeeze or press together
• adjective closely and firmly united or packed together
• verb have the property of being packable or of compacting easily
• noun a small cosmetics case with a mirror; to be carried in a woman's purse
• adjective having a short and solid form or stature
• verb compress into a wad