compactly adjective
com·pact
The adjective form of compactly is compact
The adjective form of compactly is compactible
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- adjective compactly joined or packed together; closely and firmly united; dense; solid: compact soil. 1
- adjective compactly arranged within a relatively small space: a compact shopping center; a compact kitchen. 1
- adjective compactly designed to be small in size and economical in operation. 1
- adjective compactly solidly or firmly built: the compact body of a lightweight wrestler. 1
- adjective compactly expressed concisely; pithy; terse; not diffuse: a compact review of the week's news. 1
- adjective compactly composed or made (usually followed by of): a book compact of form and content. 1
- adjective compactly Also, bicompact. Mathematics. (of a set) having the property that in any collection of open sets whose union contains the given set there exists a finite number of open sets whose union contains the given set; having the property that every open cover has a finite subcover. 1