ALL meanings of compactly
com·pact
C c - noun compactly In a compact manner. 1
- 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
- verb with object compactly to join or pack closely together; consolidate; condense. 1
- verb with object compactly to make firm or stable. 1
- verb with object compactly to form or make by close union or conjunction; make up or compose. 1
- verb with object compactly Metallurgy. to compress (metallic or metallic and nonmetallic powders) in a die to be sintered. 1
- verb with object compactly to crush into compact form for convenient disposal or for storage until disposal: to compact rubbish. 1
- noun compactly a small case containing a mirror, face powder, a puff, and sometimes rouge. 1
- noun compactly Also called compact car. an automobile that is smaller than an intermediate but larger than a subcompact and generally has a combined passenger and luggage volume of 100–110 cu. ft. (2.8–3.1 m 3). 1
- noun compactly Metallurgy. (in powder metallurgy) an object to be sintered formed of metallic or of metallic and nonmetallic powders compressed in a die. 1