"compactify" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Forms: compactifies [present, singular, third-person], compactifying [participle, present], compactified [participle, past], compactified [past]
Etymology: compact + -ify Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|compact|ify}} compact + -ify Head templates: {{en-verb}} compactify (third-person singular simple present compactifies, present participle compactifying, simple past and past participle compactified)
  1. (humorous, intransitive) To become compact or more compact. Tags: humorous, intransitive
    Sense id: en-compactify-en-verb-exADWBU0
  2. (humorous, transitive) To render (a thing) compact or more compact. Tags: humorous, transitive
    Sense id: en-compactify-en-verb-Z4V~guT~
  3. (mathematics, transitive) To enlarge (a topological space) in order to render it compact. Tags: transitive Categories (topical): Mathematics
    Sense id: en-compactify-en-verb-jpXidmhV Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ify Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 5 12 58 25 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ify: 11 11 60 18 Topics: mathematics, sciences
  4. (physics, transitive) To adjust a theory so as to render finite or periodic (a theoretical space-time dimension). Tags: transitive Categories (topical): Physics
    Sense id: en-compactify-en-verb-RFOTflr3 Topics: natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: paracompactifying

Inflected forms

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