"compactness" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-compactness.wav Forms: compactnesses [plural]
Etymology: From compact + -ness. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|compact|ness}} compact + -ness Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} compactness (countable and uncountable, plural compactnesses)
  1. The state of being compact. Tags: countable, uncountable Derived forms: noncompactness, pseudocompactness, sequential compactness Translations (state of being compact): اِكْتِنَاز (iktināz) [masculine] (Arabic), اِلْتِزَاز (iltizāz) [masculine] (Arabic), رَصَافَة (raṣāfa) [feminine] (Arabic), تَرَاصّ (tarāṣṣ) [masculine] (Arabic), تَضَامّ (taḍāmm) [masculine] (Arabic), تَدَمُّج (tadammuj) [masculine] (Arabic), кампа́ктнасць (kampáktnascʹ) [feminine] (Belarusian), kompaktnost [feminine] (Czech), ucelenost [feminine] (Czech), pevnost [feminine] (Czech), semknutost [feminine] (Czech), masivnost [feminine] (Czech), hutnost [feminine] (Czech), kompakthed [common-gender] (Danish), compactheid [feminine] (Dutch), compacité [feminine] (French), Kompaktheit [feminine] (German), compacitat [feminine] (Occitan), ਸੁੰਗੜਤਾ (suṅgṛatā) (Punjabi), компа́ктность (kompáktnostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), compacidad [feminine] (Spanish), kompakthet [common-gender] (Swedish), компа́ктність (kompáktnistʹ) [feminine] (Ukrainian)

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