"compaction" meaning in English

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          "word": "hypercompaction"
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          "word": "precompaction"
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          "word": "recompaction"
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          "word": "supercompaction"
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          "word": "vibrocompaction"
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          "text": "At Smithfield Frith is being shovelled up, his youth, his grace, his learning and his beauty: a compaction of mud, grease, charred bone.",
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          "code": "cmn",
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          "sense": "process of compacting",
          "word": "壓實"
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          "word": "圧密"
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          "sense": "process of compacting",
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          "word": "kompaktering"
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      "word": "壓實"
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